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Help[Opinions] Tirion
Time for a thread on a name I love that (I suspect) most people will dislike. (:
Tirion has slowly been climbing up my list of girls' names since I first spotted it on the BtN board a while ago. It's a Welsh name meaning "gentle", and to my knowledge it's only been used recently there. I think it's sweet, graceful and quite lovely, but with backbone as well. I'd place it among those enchanting, uncommon but down-to-earth names like Tamsin or Elspeth. Tirion seems a little softer and has a mellow quality, however.
Understandably, it's not to everyone's taste -- the few comments I have seen on the name usually point out that it sounds like a boys' name (it's been used for both genders). I'm sure the Song of Ice and Fire character and visual similarities to Tyrone and Tyron don't help, either. Tirion seems more feminine to me, however, and I have an easier time imagining it on a girl. I don't have the England/Wales statistics on hand right now but I believe Tirion was listed for girls but not for boys.
Thoughts? Any fellow fans? Any comment is welcome, of course -- there are few things that can kill my love for a name, and I like knowing opinions on some of the more uncommon names I like. I have noticed that some posters like it (or variants) as a boys' name, which is cool, I guess. (I actually started out liking it for boys as well, but my love for it as a feminine name won over).
Tirion has slowly been climbing up my list of girls' names since I first spotted it on the BtN board a while ago. It's a Welsh name meaning "gentle", and to my knowledge it's only been used recently there. I think it's sweet, graceful and quite lovely, but with backbone as well. I'd place it among those enchanting, uncommon but down-to-earth names like Tamsin or Elspeth. Tirion seems a little softer and has a mellow quality, however.
Understandably, it's not to everyone's taste -- the few comments I have seen on the name usually point out that it sounds like a boys' name (it's been used for both genders). I'm sure the Song of Ice and Fire character and visual similarities to Tyrone and Tyron don't help, either. Tirion seems more feminine to me, however, and I have an easier time imagining it on a girl. I don't have the England/Wales statistics on hand right now but I believe Tirion was listed for girls but not for boys.
Thoughts? Any fellow fans? Any comment is welcome, of course -- there are few things that can kill my love for a name, and I like knowing opinions on some of the more uncommon names I like. I have noticed that some posters like it (or variants) as a boys' name, which is cool, I guess. (I actually started out liking it for boys as well, but my love for it as a feminine name won over).
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