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Help[Opinions] Re: Yvonne
in reply to a message by queenv
Yvonne is just so French looking and sounding. When I first saw it (I was a kid) I thought it seemed super exotic and that attracted me to it. But it also now seems dated and everyday. So it's exotic to me, but in a really ordinary way... I guess... like ... the sushi at the supermarket deli? It's got raw fish on it, but so what - it's American sushi now. Yvonne has a glamorous Yv and a graceful onne, but so what. I won't be shocked if she doesn't speak French.
Anyway I think it is a nice name. I don't really enjoy the second syllable stress. It sounds a little supercilious to me. Yvette is warmer seeming to me. But I kinda like Evette and Evonne better, for myself (basically because I don't speak French?).
According to my name book, which has a few popularity lists in it, Yvonne was not on the England/Wales top 50 list in 1981. Nor 1965, nor 1975, nor 1925. But it was #46 in 1950. And according to the entry for the name, it broke into the British top 50 in 1970 as well.
I think Yvon for a girl would be kind of cool. I guess that is creative of me. But it'd be better than Evan on a girl. And would seem more fashionable IMO than Yvonne would.
- mirfak
Anyway I think it is a nice name. I don't really enjoy the second syllable stress. It sounds a little supercilious to me. Yvette is warmer seeming to me. But I kinda like Evette and Evonne better, for myself (basically because I don't speak French?).
According to my name book, which has a few popularity lists in it, Yvonne was not on the England/Wales top 50 list in 1981. Nor 1965, nor 1975, nor 1925. But it was #46 in 1950. And according to the entry for the name, it broke into the British top 50 in 1970 as well.
I think Yvon for a girl would be kind of cool. I guess that is creative of me. But it'd be better than Evan on a girl. And would seem more fashionable IMO than Yvonne would.
- mirfak
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