Comments for AUSTYN:

I'd like to know how changing the 'Y' to an 'I' makes this feminine. *rolls eyes*

-- Mithos514  6/1/2006

Well, the Y makes it seem to me like it would be said "Ah steen". I, in general, don't like either version.

-- Anonymous User  6/12/2006

Austyn is used as another name for St. Augustine in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

-- jc  9/22/2006

It's just a crappy spelling of Austin. Let's not change spellings people, I really hate that. That's how my name has ended up being spelled a million different ways (ex: Joni, Jonni, Jonnie, Joani).

-- joanie2007  7/7/2007

I don't quite get the supposed ''feminizing'' effect of shoving a 'y' to the slot of the unstressed vowel either. The name is still pronounced exactly the same, it is still masculine, and it doesn't sound cool on an adult woman. The manly/boyish names on a girl/woman-thing may work on tomboyish and cool girls and young women, but not on women past the age of 27. Plus, this is plain bad spelling.

-- slight night shiver  4/19/2008

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