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[Opinions] Edwin
What do you think of Edwin?I don't really like it. Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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I like it a lot.
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There's nothing at all wrong with it, but it seems more pretentious, somehow, than Edward (which I like, and which has a similar vibe for me to George: sturdy and cuddly). Edwin feels... fancier. Posher. No idea why it feels that way; possibly because it's much rarer here? My dad had a great-uncle Edwin, and he wasn't fancy at all. But I recall finding out that a pal always known as Ed was actually an Edwin, rather than an Edward, and suddenly getting a quite different impression of him.

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I like it less than Edward and but more than Edgar and Edmund - I know three (all adults over 40), one with Edwin as a first name and the others a George Edwin and a Nicholas Edwin.
The Edwin I know with it as a first name has a Welsh surname and I think his parents thought it would sound more mainstream outside Wales than the Welsh name Elwyn.
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I'm not that attached to it, but it's my favorite Ed name. 1. Edwin
2. Eduardo
3. Edric
4. Edgar / Edison
5. Edmund
6. EdwardI think it's a wool cardigan type name, yet it seems lighter than the rest. I get the sense there could be something funky and/or intrepid about it.
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I really like it! But I like Edmund even more, so I don't think I'd ever use it myself.
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It's quite popular here (usually spelled Edvin) and has been for a few years. I've never gotten the appeal of it. I also tend to dislike names that can be pronounced more than one way, and Edvin is one of them here in Sweden. Some people pronounce it with a short E, and some with a long E (same with Edward for example).
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I don't really like it either, though since I've only known one and I didn't really like him, I might be confused. And I do quite enjoy Edwina, though to me she'll always be my nephew's Pug.Of the obvious Ed- names, I'd rate Edward first, then Edwin, and Edmund stone last.
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