... except if you're saying it ED-en and not EED-en, then it sounds like a different name and could be a boy name. It's just that there are so many boy names that sound like this. There's
Edan,
Idan,
Eitan,
Ethan,
Aiden,
Evan - all at my kids' school. Ed-en would just be lost in that, but at least it sounds masculine, reminding of
Edward.
Eden is a feminine name to me because of experience and because of liking it, and because of similarity to
Edith. It would seem as unfortunate as
Lily would on a boy, to me, because of how I feel about it as a girl name. But I would think it was better as a feminine name, even if it were new to me as a name.
Eden or paradise, "place of pleasure," seems like a feminine concept in the most banal way. I think it's feminine in the same way that I think
Heaven,
Haven,
Serena,
Chalice, and
Felicity are.
- mirfakThis message was edited 3/30/2015, 11:10 PM