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What do you think of Rain as a name?
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It's nice.
I wish people used this and not Reign.
I wish people used this and not Reign.
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It's really pretty and doesn't seem that common so yes.
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This is a distant memory and I'm too tired to look it up: if I recall, and this is something I read years ago, the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland named her daughter Rain back in the 1920s and took the little girl to a birthday party where one of the other small guests was the future Queen Elizabeth. She was introduced to Rain and said thoughtfully "That's a funny name" ... or it might have been "a silly name", can't recall. And the irony is that it's pronounced much like the French word 'reine' which means 'queen'.
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I like it sound wise, but it doesn’t quite feel name-y for me.
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I need it to be a little fancier to be a name. That is, I like Raine better. That might be because I associate it with the "regina" branch of names so it just seems namier that way.
I think it's okay. It feels kind of trapped at age 22 in a young person's apartment dreaming of better things. Like they would write a story with an alter-ego main character named Rain and then name their oops baby after that character. It's not to my personal taste.
I think it's okay. It feels kind of trapped at age 22 in a young person's apartment dreaming of better things. Like they would write a story with an alter-ego main character named Rain and then name their oops baby after that character. It's not to my personal taste.
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I like it, but mainly as a middle name. I like Rayne as a first name.
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Don't like it at all
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Not very appealing, but not awful either.
Kinda dreary. The sensory associations I have are cold, gray/darkened, descending. Symbolism is grief and purification. Kinda gothy, but tamed-down because rain is ordinary, and the word is ordinary. Kinda hippie or new-agey, because it's "naturey" and elemental.
I like Reign a bit better. Reign does not seem to take itself so seriously.
I think Rain sounds namey enough, that if I were calling someone that IRL, I could forget the idea of "rain" and just think of it the way I think of surname Rayne. Same as with Reign.
4.5/10 About as bad/good as Winter, Cherry, Lotus, Cedar, Meadow, Stormy, Lake, Rainbow, Reign.
Worse than Wolf, Ocean, Zephyr, Rio, Kestrel, Sky. Better than Salem, Gray, Tempest, Seven, Wednesday, Wilde, Snow.
Kinda dreary. The sensory associations I have are cold, gray/darkened, descending. Symbolism is grief and purification. Kinda gothy, but tamed-down because rain is ordinary, and the word is ordinary. Kinda hippie or new-agey, because it's "naturey" and elemental.
I like Reign a bit better. Reign does not seem to take itself so seriously.
I think Rain sounds namey enough, that if I were calling someone that IRL, I could forget the idea of "rain" and just think of it the way I think of surname Rayne. Same as with Reign.
4.5/10 About as bad/good as Winter, Cherry, Lotus, Cedar, Meadow, Stormy, Lake, Rainbow, Reign.
Worse than Wolf, Ocean, Zephyr, Rio, Kestrel, Sky. Better than Salem, Gray, Tempest, Seven, Wednesday, Wilde, Snow.
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