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[Opinions] Gracelyn
Does anyone like Gracelyn? Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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I love it!
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It’s ok. I feel sort of neutral. I think it works well as a middle name, rather than the nearly expected Grace or Lynn.
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Not at all. Grace is overused and doesn't appeal to me for its sound or its theology, and Lyn is a knee-jerk ending. Not even the fact that a dear friend had a granddaughter named Gracelyn can warm me up to it.
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No. Just use Grace.
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Grace is a lovely name, but Gracelyn sounds very downmarket for some reason.
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It's ok. It's pretty, but it is kind of boring. The -lyn feels really tacked on. I like Grace more.
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I don't really dislike it, but I think it's kind of boring.I also think it could be confusing because it's just pronounced Grace Lyn but the "elyn" part looks like two syllables, and it's weird to not pronounce the e as its own syllable in the middle of a word. It's common enough that that's not really an issue but it's something I notice if I look at the name for a while.

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I think the -lyn detracts from rather than adds to Grace
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It's nice. Sounds a bit like Graceland, but it's still attractive. I think if I wanted to use it I'd spell it Gracelynn but that's just a nitpick.
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