Message: "Debbyn" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Debbyn

by Shaymin

3/3/2019, 4:25 PM

I met a woman named Debbyn the other day. Not saying I like it. She was in her 60s. I feel like maybe her parents liked Deborah but thought it was too popular and created Debbyn.

Wdyt?

#Debbyn

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- LittleEgret

3/5/2019, 1:43 PM

Not a fan. Don't like the sound or the look of it.

- egyptianpanda

3/5/2019, 6:49 AM

It looks like Debby trying to be Welsh to me.

I think Deborah is better.

- gigibee +1

3/4/2019, 9:12 PM

I think I'm by myself here, but I really like it. Usually, I don't like either made-up names or smooshed names.

- Tassiegirl

3/5/2019, 12:34 PM

Not that it's bad, or at least, no worse than many, but the bearer would have a lifetime of "Not Debbie? how do you spell it, then?"

I've got an unlikely-for-the -area last name, so I'm familiar with that.

- Felie +1

3/4/2019, 6:55 AM

Hi !!!

Debbyn is clearly a madeup name.

It is nonsense in my mind. I have no links with it.

I rate it 1/10. Sorry.

This message was edited 3/4/2019, 6:55 AM

- Shaymin

3/4/2019, 10:59 AM

It was not anything I like personally. Just thought people on here would think it is interesting :)

- Parthenia (OnyxMoon)

3/4/2019, 6:51 AM

Reminds me of the name Devin, but very interesting for a woman of that age and reminds me way more of Devin then Deborah. I don't particularly like Devin much.

- queenv +1

3/4/2019, 4:27 AM

Yes, quite obviously her parents liked Deborah / Debra but thought it was too popular. They'd have been better off.....no, their daughter would have been better off if they'd just abandoned the "Deb" sound altogether and tried to find a less popular, but established, name IMO.

This message was edited 3/4/2019, 11:33 AM

- Shaymin

3/4/2019, 10:59 AM

I agree.

- Fionnghuala +2

3/3/2019, 11:29 PM

I think it could well be a mash-up or “smoosh” name. This has been common in Mormon/LDS world for a long, long time. I have Mormon relatives in their 60s and 70s with smoosh names. When someone with a smoosh name is paired with someone else with a smoosh name for a whole new smoosh name, the fun goes on and on! ;)

Actually, it’s really quite interesting. If anyone here hasn’t checked out the Utah Baby Namer, you’re in for a treat.

- Shaymin +1

3/4/2019, 11:01 AM

I invented my own Mormon smush name based on my parents names because I think that is where a lot of their smush names stem from. I quite like what I came up with, Bevricka lol

- Fionnghuala

3/4/2019, 11:10 AM

Love it. ;)

Mine would be... Jilrey? Jillrey? Jeff and Jill are hard to smoosh!

With my grandparents —

Lafeta (oh dear. Lafe/Loeta)

Mary Frances? Not very Mormon. Marankjane? (Mary Jane & Frank. Mary Jane went by Mary in her family and Jan to almost everyone else)

- Anneza +2

3/3/2019, 10:38 PM

I'm familiar with Dobbin as a name for a horse, so no! And Debbyn also sounds like a local pronunciation of the city of Durban. I wish she had been Deborah and used Deborah: the trouble with Deborah is the infantile and characterless Debby, which Debbyn makes more likely rather than less.

- Shaymin

3/4/2019, 11:01 AM

I knew Dobs and Dobby as a nn for Dobromir. Poles in an English-speaking setting.

- JemimahGertrude

3/3/2019, 11:49 PM

I immediately thought of Dobbin as well. For that reason I wouldn't use it either.

- 6sammie6

3/3/2019, 6:33 PM

Looks like someone tried to masculinize Deborah. If I met someone named this I'd assume it was Devin and they had a cold or I misheard them.

- A (guest)

3/3/2019, 5:03 PM

It reminds me of Devon. I would not use it but I don't see how it wouldn't be usable.

- Fictionfan861 (guest)

3/3/2019, 4:52 PM

I agree and would think the same. I also would probably think it was an intentional mash-up of Deborah and Robyn/Robin or something. Though perhaps it's not, just my initial impression.

- number1212

3/3/2019, 4:41 PM

Looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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