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[Opinions] Regina
Regina - Opinions?
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I love it. I might consider using it as a middle name.
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Adore it. Somewhat like Regine better, but I have a thing for the "absent a" version of names. Regina is very solid, feminine, yet bold and full of personality.
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It's not one of my favorites.
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Pretentious. Queenie seems better, because it's a diminutive and therefore somewhat playful.The only Regina I've ever known was a Dutch woman, so it was pronounced reCHina and she was always known as Gina, also pronounced with that 'Scottish loch' sound - CHIna, not CHIEna or CHEEna.
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I really like Regina--it's the name of one of my favorite characters from Once Upon a Time. I would never use it personally but maybe on a character.
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It's always seemed too heavy to me. But it's not awful.
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I really like queenly Regina, though I prefer it as a sprightly middle name (e.g. Hermione Regina, the subject of one of my recent polls).
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As far as I can remember, I always had 2-3 Reginas in my class, especially in high school.
NN's were always Gina for all these classmates.
At the time, this name was pretty common in Germany, nowadays it's considered old-fashioned and not very attractive.
Personally, I don't like that name very much.
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I like it, but it will forever be associated with Mean Girls.
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Gina is so friendly and chirpy. Regina (perhaps because of the Royal connection) seems snooty.
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