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Although my best friend and soul mate is named Elizabeth, I find the name painfully jejune. I think what bothers me is that it features so many letters and an objectively unusual series of sounds, but the combined overall effect is feckless. However, I love Elisabeth and variants Erzsebet, Elspeth, Elzbieta, Elisabetta, etc.

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John is barely more than an uninspiring sound for me. Even the nicknames fall flat (whereas Elizabeth's nicknames rescue it from the maw of vacuity).