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What's your opinion of Linnea? Love it. It's exotic but sweet, elegant but spunky.
How do you pronounce it? li-NAY-a
What do you think of Linnea as a sister to Zoe and Stephen? They sound well together.

I LOVE Linnea! (my fave spelling is Linnaea)

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It is one of my top 3! It is one of the few names I never tire of. It is beautiful to me.

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I pronounce it Lih NAY uh

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I think it goes well with Zoe and Stephen.

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Linnea is one of my faves. :)

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lynn-AE-a, middle syllable rhyming with Mae. And regarding pronunciation - its page has an accent over the E, so I don't know why BtN says it has stress on the first syllable.

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Seems out of place in that sibset, tbh. Zoe and Stephen are really traditional, top 50 sort of names. Even though Stephen isn't at the moment, it was for a REALLY long time and I know dozens of Stephens. Linnea peaked below #700 in the US, over 60 years ago. And Zoe and Stephen are also simple, solid sounding names, whereas Linnea is flowing and a tad flowery, so the style is off.

This message was edited 5/1/2012, 9:38 AM

Linnea was my most favorite name for a while. I swore I'd have a daughter named Linnea Margot. :)

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I pronounce it lih-NAY-uh.

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I think Zoe, Stephen and Linnea would make a great sibset.

I like Linnea, but it's very common where I live.

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It's pronounced li-NEH-ah in Swedish, but I'd pronounce it li-NAY-uh in English.

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I think Linnea and Zoe sounds good together. It doesn't go well with Stephen though IMO.

This message was edited 5/1/2012, 8:35 AM

I like Linnea well enough, and I think it has an interesting origin, tied as it is to botony and taxonomy.

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I pronounce it li-NAY-ə, which according to the entry here on BtN is wrong, wrong, wrong. Where I am, in Texas, I think li-NAY-ə and li-NAY would be the two most intuitive pronunciations. Like Helena, Linnea's pronunciation ambiguity keeps me from really liking the name.

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Zoe, Stephen, and Linnea are great for siblings.