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[Opinions] Lashay
This was the name of the cashier who rang me up the other day. She looked to be in her early 20's, and surprisingly, I didn't hate her name. It seemed to suit her.Thoughts?
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Sounds stereotypically black to me.
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It's pleasant if you say it out loud. The look of it disagrees with me a little, because of the word lash. Looks like it rhymes with sashay, but I think it would be nicer if it were lah-shay.
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I prefer Shay. I don't particularly care for Lashay, but there are far worse names out there. Lashay isn't that far off from Renee, Janae, etc., so it has a bit of a familiar feel.
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I still don't like the name as to me it's last name or middle name material only.
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It reminds me of Nick and Drew Lashey of 98 Degrees, but since she's in her 20's, she would have been born before the boy band started. It does sound like a stereotypical African American name, but it isn't the worst name out there.
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Sorry, but it sounds kind of ghetto to me. No offense to anyone.
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I don't find it gross, but there's nothing there to attract me either. It's just the tryndee Shay sound stuck together with the once-trendy La sound, like Latanya or Lakisha.
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It sounds made-up and I don't like the prefix La, in this case.
Somehow, it sounds like a trendy name that's popular for about six months among a very select group of people and then just disappears.
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I don't like it. I'd prefer just Shay/Shaye/Shea. I have to say, it sounds a lot better when said aloud than it looks. It looks ugly written out like that, but I probably wouldn't dislike it so much if my main exposure to it was from hearing it being spoken.
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