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Help[Opinions] Re: V names from the Anglosphere
in reply to a message by Felie
I don't like Vinnie / Vinny. The actual sound is fine, but in a more abstract way it sounds a little sleazy to me, like a mobster? I used to know a not very friendly Doberman named it. Vince and Vincent seem nicer.
I've recently started liking Virgil, although I think in the US it maybe has a split personality. On one hand, I get a scholarly introvert vibe: kind of like I do from Isaac, Gaius, Evander; on the other hand, it seems almost comically plebeian or rough (like Cletus is stereotypically hillbilly, or think Homer from the Simpsons, or a gunslinger name like Wyatt was before it got popular)
Vivian as masculine is ok but would seem a little intentionally effeminate in the US...or maybe it's just old-fashioned, elite, and theatrical seeming. I think of Oscar Wilde and the movie My Fair Lady, in association with the vibe I think it has. I feel like Valentin and Julian are similar, and I'd prefer seeing those.
I like Verbena and Veda.
I have a great-aunt Vernelle. It's an old-fashioned fad name (randomly adding *el to names was a thing in the US, especially in the early 1900s), but I always thought it was cool.
~ song of the week: "Little Sparrow"
https://youtu.be/JB9zXoOBpOI
I've recently started liking Virgil, although I think in the US it maybe has a split personality. On one hand, I get a scholarly introvert vibe: kind of like I do from Isaac, Gaius, Evander; on the other hand, it seems almost comically plebeian or rough (like Cletus is stereotypically hillbilly, or think Homer from the Simpsons, or a gunslinger name like Wyatt was before it got popular)
Vivian as masculine is ok but would seem a little intentionally effeminate in the US...or maybe it's just old-fashioned, elite, and theatrical seeming. I think of Oscar Wilde and the movie My Fair Lady, in association with the vibe I think it has. I feel like Valentin and Julian are similar, and I'd prefer seeing those.
I like Verbena and Veda.
I have a great-aunt Vernelle. It's an old-fashioned fad name (randomly adding *el to names was a thing in the US, especially in the early 1900s), but I always thought it was cool.
~ song of the week: "Little Sparrow"
https://youtu.be/JB9zXoOBpOI
This message was edited 12/17/2021, 2:59 PM
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