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Well....I'm basically with you. I think it's ugly yet it has some charm. I suppose I'm a little biased towards it because it was my paternal grandmother's name. I remember when, before I'd had my second child, I was discussing possible names for a future second child with my mother-in-law, and was discussing possible honoring names for a second girl. She asked me what my grandmothers' names were. When I said "Agnes", there was a strong negative reaction, a face and an "Oooh, nooo!" And this would only have been a possible middle name. So even though Agnes was not and is not a big favorite, I felt rather impatient with the automatic knee-jerk negative reaction that so many people have towards it, the way that they can only focus on the sounds and not think of its history and see some of its charm.

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So of your combos, my favorites are:

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Agnes Lavinia (I love Lavinia)
Agnes Clementine
Agnes Elowen
Agnes Tabitha (also love Tabitha)

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