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The only ones I like are Cerise, Deirdre, Ebony, Sedna, Kirsikka, Odin, and Galen.

Alban - eh. it's ok. Prefer Alden
Alvin - chipmunk ruined it for me
Aton - doesn't seem a ton like a name to me.
Averill - ok except for the rise of Avril (f)
Brannon - gets lost between Brennan and Brandon
Canyon - it's a GP for me.
Chaim - oh, that first consonant sound. Like challah. lol. not working for me
Corwin - hm. not awful, not a lot of appeal tho
Gale - prefer on a female
Galen - old man name
Hale - funny. You meet him and say, Hale!
Kemp - nms spunkysurname
Layne - it has the word lay in it ... Lane is ok
Moran - too surnamey
Nahum - neat sound, nms
Odin - an in-your-face sort of name like Ares, but it's ok with me.
Perun - neat.
Salem - not picturing this as a good name for a person. It should be, but has too much baggage.
Torin - feels drippy and weak to me.

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Aludra - something about it makes it appealing to me. But I also kind of think it's ugly.
Betony - hard to say for me. Comes out Be'unny. Nifty on paper.
Cerise - too nailpolishy and anyway, it's Cherry. I like Cherry more.
Cybele - nifty.
Cedra "SEE-druh" - I wrangled with having this on my list and gave up because the prn is too ambiguous. But I like it.
Davinia - alright. doesn't make a huge impression on me.

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Most of these aren't my taste at all, but I do kind of like: Alban (it's a placename where my friend lives, so I'm not sure it works as a name), Odin, and Cybele.

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Alvin is too dated IMO.
Aton makes me think of Eton. Not a good association here in the UK, unless you like toffs ;P
Averill is very, very medicinal and pharmaceutical sounding. Not good at all.
Brannon is okay. Not as good as Brennan.
Canyon... yeah, no.
Chaim - very Hassidic sounding. If that's your bag, fair enough, but I don't think it will work in a non-Jewish setting.
Corwin, no offense, but this is really not nice. But, eh, you like what you like.
I hate Gale.
Galen, much the same.
-And- Hale! But somehow, Hale seems so much dorkier and sillier and lame even than Gale.
Kemp is ugly.
Layne is weak, wimpy and milksoppish.
Moran is unattractive and too close to 'moron'.
Nahum... I make that sound when I clear my throat when I have an especially bad cold. Phlegmy and gross.
Perun sounds strangely like a part of the body, like the perineum.
Salem is the name that a preteen goth would pick, a bit like October, Samhain, Raven,... it's just trying too hard. It is kind of cool, I'll give it that. It'd be a good name for a cat, a la Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Torin could grow on me, maybe, eventually.

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Aludra is pretty, in a 'lewd', Westernised-idea-of-bellydancing-and-harems way. It's gauzy and hip-swaying, and maybe trying too hard, like what a pole-dancer working for a PhD in literature or astronomy might choose as her stage-name. It's both juvenile and too mature, almost, but not quite alluring, and feels linked wit tacky and ill informed and youthful idea of adulthood / maturity. It doesn't seem appropriate for anything other than a stage-name of a certain kind, or maybe a character. But it's not hideous, it's just... hmmm...

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