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[Opinions] Kinga
Wdyt of Kinga? I think it’s cheesy.
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I would read Kinga and immediate assume it is some kind of odd feminized form of King, which would make it an immediate no.I'm still not convinced, even after discovering that isn't its etymology, that this is really usable. I don't know what the proper pronunciation would be but it seems really ugly.
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I love Kinga. When I first heard of it I also thought it was a strange feminization of "King"; when I learned its true background that made it a lot more interesting! I guess it only seems cheesy if you judge it from an English perspective.
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To me, Kinga would suit almost anyone. It's not that I have no associations with it, it's that I have so many that I don't think I can imagine a person that this name wouldn't fit. I like the firm sound, I like the length, I like the nn Kinia. But the universality of it makes it almost an afterthought. Like, the name suits everybody so in a way, it's hard to make it stick to one person. It's still pretty, though.
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Aw, I think it's adorable. It's not a feminization of the English "king."
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King is bad enough, but Kinga is just absurd. If you NEED to use a royal name, go with Queenie for a girl.
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I don’t like Kinga, I don’t like the sound of it. It sounds like the female version of the name KING.
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It's not cheesy in a Polish context, where the word for king is król and Kinga is KEEN-ga, but I don't like it. It sounds harsh, and the only nickname I can think of, Kinia, is puerile.
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I quite like Cunégonde, but only in a French context. Kinga looks uncomfortably like a unisex version of Queen.
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