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Help[Opinions] Re: Thoughts on the name Portlynn for a girl
in reply to a message by TC
Adequate, but uninspiring.
tl;dr: Sounds like Portland. Portland would be a better name than Portlynn, in my opinion, just because it refers to something and has a conventional spelling. Nobody has to spell out Portland for anyone, but Portlynn would probably have to spell her name out.
Portlynn is usable and dignified enough ... but really only because of the existence of places called Portland. Otherwise it looks like Port + lynn, and Port isn't a name, so that's kinda odd. It's surely not about ports, or portliness ... Seems like it has to refer to Portland. But, which Portland? Oregon, a city with a mixed reputation? or maybe Maine?
Oh, and I've seen Courtlynn - sort of a smush of Courtney and Katelynn. It does remind me of that as well. So that makes it a little more intelligible as a name. Sorta typical American invented name, that sounds more like a name than like anything else, but isn't generally appealing enough to become trendy or popular.
- mirfak
tl;dr: Sounds like Portland. Portland would be a better name than Portlynn, in my opinion, just because it refers to something and has a conventional spelling. Nobody has to spell out Portland for anyone, but Portlynn would probably have to spell her name out.
Portlynn is usable and dignified enough ... but really only because of the existence of places called Portland. Otherwise it looks like Port + lynn, and Port isn't a name, so that's kinda odd. It's surely not about ports, or portliness ... Seems like it has to refer to Portland. But, which Portland? Oregon, a city with a mixed reputation? or maybe Maine?
Oh, and I've seen Courtlynn - sort of a smush of Courtney and Katelynn. It does remind me of that as well. So that makes it a little more intelligible as a name. Sorta typical American invented name, that sounds more like a name than like anything else, but isn't generally appealing enough to become trendy or popular.
- mirfak
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