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[Opinions] Re: Harley
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Not a love, but it's likable enough and WAY better than Hadley... Hadley is way too surnamey and trendy. Why would anyone put Harley on a girl? It's all boy to normal people who aren't trying to be trendy by crossing more boys' names onto girls. No idea why it's listed as fem. on BtN except that some parents have decided to go w/ the crossover. Not excessively popular... pretty down to earth and sensible and doesn't have the preppy air about it that Hadley does (Harley sounds solid, independent and hard-working and Hadley sounds like a spoiled little rich kid w/ hovering preppy parents... sorry, but those are the images these names give me)... and nice to see it kept on boys where it belongs. I've only ever met male Harleys, I think.

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Uhm it's a place name. Yes it was used on boys first but it was never masculine to begin with. A place or a surname can never be masculine or feminine to me. I mean women have surnames too.
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Thing is that as a fn, most surnames sound kinda dorky and they usually sound even worse on girls imo.
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