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WDYTO Hero?
I realize it's a little "out there", but I've liked Hero for a girl ever since ever since I first saw Much Ado About Nothing. Anyway, lately I've really come to like it as a first name for either gender. So...impressions? Concerns? Words of violent disapproval? ;D
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I love it for a girl! Love love love it!
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I love Hero for a girl.
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I'm a big fan of being different but Hero doesn't do much for me on either gender. Why not use Hera?
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I think of a goddess with an anger issue whose husband keeps cheating on her... :-|
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I think it's better on a girl. Less tacky than on a boy. But it's still too much to live up to as a word name.
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I can see the appeal as a GP, but irl, as Ozma said, it's too much to live up to. Hera might be better.
The only time I've seen it on a boy was in the Harry Potter cast on the little boy who played young Tom Riddle, whose name is apparently Hero Beauregard Fiennes-Tiffin - which has to be a strong candidate for silliest name ever! :)
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Beauregard...oh my.
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Sounds too much like Hiro, which is a sector of many Japanese names. The only use for Hero is as a nn for the Japanese Hiro- names.
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Too much to live up to.
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This. PlusHero sounds very masculine to me.
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No violent disapproval issuing from me! I like Hero, though I'm not sure I would ever consider using it.
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I really like it for a boy... but I don't know if I'd ever be brave enough to use it!
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I really like it. I know when you say Hero, people typically think male, but I prefer the name for a girl because of Much Ado About Nothing. If you didn't want to be so "out there", you could maybe go with Hermione nn Hero. Either way, I think it's great!
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