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Help[Opinions] Re: Gale
in reply to a message by Puck
Gale looks more masculine than feminine to me, so yes.
On the negative side, the sound + that spelling make me think a little of windstorms and hurricanes (or metaphorical ones) which is kinda negative for a name IMO (like Tempest), and of "gales of laughter," which I think would also be more negative than positive for a name. I can get connotations of bombast and clumsiness.
On the positive side, which matters much more when I meet a person with a name, I think it also sounds expansive and substantial. So, I think it's a pretty good name but it doesn't strike me in that favorite, I-would-use-it way.
Galen is a decent name too - kinda too dorky, though, like Gordon, nms. I prefer Gale over Galen because that -en ending that makes it softer, and it seems relatively softened-up without actually being soft at all.
A crisper sounding middle name like Nicholas or Timothy or Michael or Patrick?
- mirfak
On the negative side, the sound + that spelling make me think a little of windstorms and hurricanes (or metaphorical ones) which is kinda negative for a name IMO (like Tempest), and of "gales of laughter," which I think would also be more negative than positive for a name. I can get connotations of bombast and clumsiness.
On the positive side, which matters much more when I meet a person with a name, I think it also sounds expansive and substantial. So, I think it's a pretty good name but it doesn't strike me in that favorite, I-would-use-it way.
Galen is a decent name too - kinda too dorky, though, like Gordon, nms. I prefer Gale over Galen because that -en ending that makes it softer, and it seems relatively softened-up without actually being soft at all.
A crisper sounding middle name like Nicholas or Timothy or Michael or Patrick?
- mirfak
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