It's alright. I agree the -lin ending is pleasing, in theory. It's the
Frank part that leaves me cold.
It reminds me - not intensely, but enough to make me avoid it - of Frankenstein and rankling and 'Frankly I don't give a damn.' The -ank sound in it still feels heavy and ugly.
Anyway I think a
Franklin would be likely to get called
Frank /
Frankie, and it would seem stuffy to insist on
Franklin.
- mirfak