Message: "Elgin" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Elgin

by Aria (guest)

1/18/2007, 7:46 PM

My friend has a picture in her myspace of a cousin named Elgin. I looked it up, and it's not in BtN.

Does anyone know if this is a real name?

What do you think of it?

my friend has a made up name, so I'm not sure if this one is real...her name is Ameryn (AM-ryn, or AM-err-in), what do you think of that one as well?

#Elgin

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- Laine

1/20/2007, 4:33 PM

I don't like Elgin at all, but Ameryn is really pretty

- Isla

1/19/2007, 1:51 AM

I have heard of it before, actually. I knew a little boy when I was about 4 or 5 and he was Filipino, his name was Elgin. I haven't heard it since, though. Can't say it's terribly attractive sounding, but there's at least one other person in the world that has that name. :b

- Eden (eden_eli)

1/18/2007, 9:48 PM

I know a guy named Elgin! He pronounces it ELL-gin (gin like the liquor).

- flavie (guest)

1/18/2007, 9:47 PM

My great grandmother had a brother named Elgin prn EHL-jihn it was more popular in the 1800s. It is an English name meaning "white noble or pure noble"

- Porcelain (guest)

1/18/2007, 9:16 PM

Elgin
There is a town in South Africa called Elgin. It is pronounced El-jin. Personally I don't like it as a name.

Ameryn
It does sound made up & is difficult to say. Nmsaa.

- lawruh +1

1/18/2007, 8:27 PM

I know some people with the ln Elgin. I really don't think it's an attractive sound and I don't like it as a fn or anything.

- Aria (guest)

1/18/2007, 8:32 PM

me either, it's a little odd

- Tessa (Tesserella)

1/18/2007, 8:09 PM

Elgin is a street where I live... Thats all I think of.

Ameryn is ok, NMS though.

- Akis (guest) +1

1/18/2007, 7:55 PM

Elgin is a suburb of Chicago. It's also a Scottish noble family and various other towns here and there. The family seems to be pronounced with a hard G, the suburb with a soft G.

Sorta odd for a person.

- Aria (guest)

1/18/2007, 8:32 PM

Thanks

Well, maybe it's in relation to the suburb then, Ameryn goes to school in Chicago, so she may have relatives there...I thought it odd, too

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