UNCOMMON NAME!!!!

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UNCOMMON NAME!!!!
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Tue, 10-19-2004 - 12:18pm
Hey all!!! Quick question, do you like the name SUTTON for a girl or for a boy? And why, please be honest!!! Thanks@!


Mandy

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Registered: 11-29-2003
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 3:50pm
I see it as a total girls' name. I live in NY and there is a Broadway actress, known for her lead role in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (she won a Tony) and soon to start in the stage musical version of "Little Women" and her name is Sutton Foster.

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Registered: 06-01-2003
Sat, 10-23-2004 - 1:11am
The name Sutton as a FN just doesn't do much for me. I could see it used as a MN. But for the sake of argument here - if someone said, "Our new employee's name is Sutton" I would automatically just assume the employee was male. It sounds like a male name to me. JMHO
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Registered: 05-26-2003
Sat, 10-23-2004 - 10:17am
I like it for a boy, but not for a girl.
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Sun, 10-24-2004 - 6:00pm
I can see it on a boy but not a girl. It's one of those names that could definitly grow on me. I like it!

Shannon

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Registered: 05-04-2004
Mon, 10-25-2004 - 11:18am

I live in NY also, and I've never seen Sutton as a fn, for a boy OR girl, until I heard of this actress. Honestly, I would think that it is just a stage name, and not really her given name. But that's just my guess.


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Registered: 10-04-2004
Mon, 10-25-2004 - 4:16pm
It sound like a boy name.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 10-25-2004 - 7:54pm
I know a couple boys with it, and one girl, so it is more boy to me. It's ok, but a little *too* surname-ish for me (and often like those.)

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Registered: 05-16-2003
Tue, 10-26-2004 - 1:50pm
Seems like a great name for a boy, but a bad one for a girl because it sounds like a boy's name.

Cara

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Registered: 10-28-2004
Thu, 10-28-2004 - 4:56pm
I think of that as a boy name, probably because I know a guy whose last name is Sutton, and he's very masculine.
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Registered: 07-09-2004
Thu, 10-28-2004 - 8:04pm
LOVE IT !!!

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