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Amaury ... Awkward, complex yet too casual. Amalric is better.
Amos ... perfect, adorable.
Amyas ... looks awkward.
Avery ... passé
Dmitri ... I'm done with this name.
Elias ... It's okay. Slightly intimidating.
Finbar / Finn ... tired.
Hadley ... trendy
Hardy ... no
Haydn ... cheesy way to honor the composer. Just use Franz or Josef
Hector ... love it.
Ilya ... Are you Russian? If not, no.
Ingo ... no
Ira ... It's okay, a little whiny.
Ivo ... love
Jonah ... good
Lennart / Leonard ... Leonard, yes. The other one, not so much..
Lucian ... not my thing, but not a disaster either
Otto ... it's good
Quinn ... meh
Rafferty ... awk
Raleigh ... trendy
Renard ... awk
Ridley ... trendy
Robin ... great!
Rupert ... good
Tobias ... good
Valentin / Valentine ... it's too frou-frou
Viggo ... no, it's too associated with LOTR and anyone who names their children from Tolkien-related things risks being labeled dorky
Walter ... maybe, probably no.
Winston ... no.

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This message was edited 7/23/2015, 9:06 AM