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[Opinions] Farrah, Fay, Fawn
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Fay, though I prefer it spelled Faye. I enjoy it’s simplicity, openness, and fairy connection. Like Kay, I think it has a subtle elegance.
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Fawn is unwholesomely sentimental if it's originally animal, and a discouraging shade of yellowy brown if it's a colour. Farrah is big-hair 70s and close enough to Sarah - which I dislike - to put me right off. Good meaning, but there's no reason to use Far(r)ah when Joy is available.That would seem to leave Fay! It's a bit too ethereal for me, but as a mn it would be OK. I'm glad y ou didn't use the Faye version - that would have left me with no options at all.
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FawnFarrah sounds better as masculine to me for whatever reason, and I wouldn't use that spelling of it.I have an Aunt Fay, plus fey reminds me of gay guys...nothing against either of them, but I'm not inclined to name a kid after them. I do like Phaedra (I say Fay-dra), though.I used to really dislike Fawn because of the verb, but I've mellowed towards it dramatically ever since I went through a phase of loving (and I still like) Fauna. Now I think it's sweet, and it reminds me of music.

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Farrah sounds way cooler than Fay (sounds like a fairy) and Fawn which sounds weak and frail
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Faye. It's pretty enough, though I do muc prefer it for a mn.
Farrah feels like a one-off to me, like Elvis or Beyonce.
Fawn just sounds tacky, like Fawn Double-D-Licious, a stripper from the eighties I just made up. Huge hair, huge implants.
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FarrahFarrah because it's the one I like the most and am most likely to actually use.
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I love, love, love Farrah. I think it's an awesome name and would love to see it more often (I'm genuinely surprised Farrah Fawcett didn't inspire more birth announcements, particularly around her death).Fay is a good name, too, though this is my least favorite spelling. I prefer both Fae and Faye.Fawn is appealing, but a little childish. Dawn has much of the same sound, but is stronger.Edit: I just remembered, in the movie Get Shorty James Gandolfini's daughter, who I think is only 6 years old, is named Farrah. That's the only other instance of the name in pop culture I can think of.I also know an Egyptian woman with the name, though she spells it Farah.

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Really? Really?Okay, Fay. Farrah is way too tied to Fawcett, and while she eventually proved herself a capable actress, she was earlier on way too much of the sex bunny. She was the object of celebrity worship and I hate celebrity worship, and she was a woman who was worshiped for her looks and I hate that.Fawn has a somewhat ridiculous vibe to me. I'm sure it's partly because of the Fawn Liebowitz in "Animal House" who died in a kiln explosion ("I talked to her just the other day. She was going to make a pot for me"), but I honestly think it would still have the ridiculous vibe, although perhaps not to the same degree, even if the movie had never been made. And anyway Fawn? A baby deer? What's so great about a baby deer that the term for baby deer should become a name? I don't get it.So Fay is the best of this bunch, which isn't saying much, but if I had to, that's what I'd choose.
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I never thought Farrah Fawcett was that attractive. She was very skinny, and she had no lips.
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The night I met my husband, September 9, 1978, somehow the subject of Farrah Fawcett came up (don't ask me how), and I remember him saying that she wasn't all that attractive and that all she had was Chiclets. He meant her teeth. He preferred me lol.
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LOL...Chiclets. That's a good way to put it.
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Fay (But spelled as Faye) It was my late mother's middle name, so it has significant meaning to me. However if the spelling can't be changed, I would choose Farrah then. I think that sounds nice as well.
I don't care for Fawn. I think it sounds strange on an actual person.
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Another similar one Faith
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Fay, but I prefer Faye - I like it works for all ages, I love Phaedra too
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Fay. It's short and simple, but not as childish as Fawn.
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Hi Billina !!!Farrah 4/10 I prefer Farah.Fay* 9/10 I love this name! It reminds me all the Arthurian and Medieval legends! I'd love to use it. Fawn* 8/10 I like this name a lot but I've not the same emotional tie that I have with Fay.

This message was edited 6/22/2019, 2:09 PM

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I’m going with Fay. It’s short and sweet. I like Fawn as a GP, but it seems too infantile for an adult.
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