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I quite like Cunégonde, but only in a French context. Kinga looks uncomfortably like a unisex version of Queen.

It's not cheesy in a Polish context, where the word for king is król and Kinga is KEEN-ga, but I don't like it. It sounds harsh, and the only nickname I can think of, Kinia, is puerile.

I don’t like Kinga, I don’t like the sound of it. It sounds like the female version of the name KING.

King is bad enough, but Kinga is just absurd. If you NEED to use a royal name, go with Queenie for a girl.

Aw, I think it's adorable. It's not a feminization of the English "king."

To me, Kinga would suit almost anyone. It's not that I have no associations with it, it's that I have so many that I don't think I can imagine a person that this name wouldn't fit. I like the firm sound, I like the length, I like the nn Kinia. But the universality of it makes it almost an afterthought. Like, the name suits everybody so in a way, it's hard to make it stick to one person. It's still pretty, though.

I love Kinga. When I first heard of it I also thought it was a strange feminization of "King"; when I learned its true background that made it a lot more interesting! I guess it only seems cheesy if you judge it from an English perspective.

I would read Kinga and immediate assume it is some kind of odd feminized form of King, which would make it an immediate no.

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I'm still not convinced, even after discovering that isn't its etymology, that this is really usable. I don't know what the proper pronunciation would be but it seems really ugly.