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in reply to a message by AshJ
Depends what you mean by "common."
It doesn't sound mediocre, if that's what you mean. My image of Sean is that it's very sharp, suave, & preppy, but modest - doesn't "try too hard." Patrick fits with it as a middle name just right - by that I mean, it's not striking. It's predictable because it sounds good.
It does seem sort of generically Irish-English-popular-namey. I'm not sure that's any drawback, though - that's just a matter of preference. Of the names I think of as popular, I suppose Sean is one of the cooler-seeming ones. Not Hollywoody, but leaning slightly that direction. Much cooler, and less mediocre, than, say, Tyler or Joshua.
My impressions of it might not apply so much in New Zealand, I have no idea! Maybe the name Sean is not popular there, or has some totally different image for NZ'ers. But, for whatever it's worth, that's my view from here.
- chazda
It doesn't sound mediocre, if that's what you mean. My image of Sean is that it's very sharp, suave, & preppy, but modest - doesn't "try too hard." Patrick fits with it as a middle name just right - by that I mean, it's not striking. It's predictable because it sounds good.
It does seem sort of generically Irish-English-popular-namey. I'm not sure that's any drawback, though - that's just a matter of preference. Of the names I think of as popular, I suppose Sean is one of the cooler-seeming ones. Not Hollywoody, but leaning slightly that direction. Much cooler, and less mediocre, than, say, Tyler or Joshua.
My impressions of it might not apply so much in New Zealand, I have no idea! Maybe the name Sean is not popular there, or has some totally different image for NZ'ers. But, for whatever it's worth, that's my view from here.
- chazda
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