Comments for the name Austyn

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

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

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

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).

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.