Message: "Stina" - Behind the Name

Stina

by New_Chloe

9/12/2014, 1:23 PM

What do you think of the name Stina? Sometimes I think it's artsy and exotic, and other times I think it's downright awful. I can't make up my mind how I feel about it. Opinions?

Also, for extra kicks, what would you want Stina to be a nickname for, out of these options:

Christina
Augustina
Celestina
Faustina
Justina
Ernestina
Modestine

#Stina

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- Pie +4

9/14/2014, 1:39 PM

I posted once about poor little Victorian Christmastina from Merthyr Tydfil. I think she would definitely have preferred Stina.
Hrm I don't hate it, but it isn't really grabbing me. All the long forms are great though.

- New_Chloe +1

9/14/2014, 1:44 PM

Christmastina is...amazing. Just...how...is...name?

- Pie

9/14/2014, 1:54 PM

Her middle name was Eunice.:D

- Rose-Berry +1

9/14/2014, 1:43 PM

Christmastina! I love it! :-)

- Pie

9/14/2014, 1:56 PM

I forget her siblings' names, but they were all really normal. One mad burst of creativity, I guess :)

- faelsean

9/13/2014, 8:12 PM

it sounds exactly like a nickname for one of those names. I find it awkward and sort of unappealing.

- Fiammetta (lady murasaki)

9/13/2014, 7:41 PM

I guss it's a cute nn for Christina or Justina, but very inconsistent on its own.

- Emaleigh (Lilly-Elise)

9/13/2014, 12:29 PM

I think Stina is a cute nickname. Actually, it's kinda pretty.

- kudriashkajo (jodirae) +1

9/13/2014, 11:30 AM

Stina as a name is okay. It neither stuns me with awesomeness nor bores me with ordinariness. It just kind of is.

Stina as a nickname walks the fine line between new-cool and lame-try-too-hard. Like Topher for Christopher.

Of your options, I pick Augustina nn Stina or Justina nn Stina.

- New_Chloe

9/13/2014, 12:28 PM

Yes, you're right. Stina is kind of...could be cool, but is still kind of underwhelming.

Augustina nn Stina is becoming my fave option for it too. Or Faustina nn Stina, which nobody else likes but I really like Faustina. Faust *would* be a cooler nickname though, I suppose.

- Billina

9/13/2014, 9:05 AM

It's strictly nickname to me.

I like Christina, Celestina, Faustina, and Justina (though I prefer Justine).

- Winter

9/13/2014, 12:30 AM

I kind of like it. In my language we have the form Stien, wich I strongly dislike. Stina sounds way better to me. I also like Stine.

I'd like it to be a nickname for Justina. Don't like any of the other -stina names.

- Fictionlover94 (ThatMazerunnerfan)

9/12/2014, 3:57 PM

Stina on its own if fine but nothing I'd choose. Sounds very cut off.
I like christina but spelled as kristina. I have a sister with that name, spelled a K. So my whole life, I've been used to the K spelling rather then the Ch spelling.
I just looks better in my opinion.

- vigdis (guest)

9/12/2014, 3:51 PM

Family Name

Stina Lovisa and later Stina Lisa were used quite often in my family tree. My brother really wanted to use Stina Lisa, I'm rather glad he didn't. I really dislike it. If I had to use it as a nn I'd go for Justina or Christina

- Ismene (Madyson) +1

9/12/2014, 2:09 PM

I'm in the same boat as you.... Sometimes it feels like Stan, on a girl, uuuuughh. And sometimes it feels like a chic foreign exchange student

I'd pick Cristina / Christine, because I like Christine but hate Chris. The other names I like other nns for.

Side note I've never heard of Modestine and I'm in love!

- New_Chloe

9/12/2014, 10:54 PM

I'm glad it's not just me! Stina, what are you.

Modestine is so fun. It seems very non-modest, which I enjoy.

- RoxStar +2

9/12/2014, 1:58 PM

I prefer just Christina with no nickname. Stina looks and sounds incomplete. How it can seem incomplete when Tina is a letter shorter, I don't know, and Tina doesn't even seem like a nn to me.

Justina is okay too, but Justine is better. Modestine sounds like a feminine hygiene product.

- New_Chloe +1

9/12/2014, 10:53 PM

lol, you're right, Modestine does sound feminine hygienesque. I have a bunch of (amazingly awful) homemaker magazines from the 50's and 60's, and throughout them all are these soft-focus ads of women in ball gowns lounging in the woods or in parks and the only words that are on the ad are "Modess...BECAUSE" and sometimes "whisper". They are totally advertisements for pads that are trying not to be advertisements for pads. Terrific. Modestine...BECAUSE.

- RoxStar

9/13/2014, 6:58 AM

I think Modess might have been pronounced Moh-DESS, like "made" being "fashion?" But I really don't know, I don't know that they're even sold anymore.

- Piccadilly +1

9/12/2014, 1:50 PM

Stina on it's own brings to mind the word 'stink'. I like it's sound but the word association ruins it for me.

I'd use the name Augustina.

- New_Chloe

9/12/2014, 10:48 PM

STINK. Yes. It's one letter away from stink. That must be the weird "uh, gross" feeling I get with it.

- CN (nsi) (guest)

9/12/2014, 1:49 PM

I went to school with a Stina. Stina was her full name. I don't really like it but I can't say I have very strong feelings about it really. Sometimes it's kind of cute, sometimes kind of ugly. I also know a Christina nn Stina.

From your list I quite like the idea of Stina as a nickname for Augustina.

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