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This is my ex-Spanish teacher's last name. She was very annoying so I can't get that past me, but I think it fits in with today's names. Not too old fashioned to my ears either.

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Drystan's not my style but not awful; I'd prefer Tristan.

I really like Werner. I can see Werner on a little boy.

I don't like Werner very much. It makes me think of the word "weiner". If I were going to use it, I'd spell it Verner to match the German pronunciation. It's more palatable that way.

I'm not particularly fond of Werner. Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes) and Werner Heisenberg (head of the Nazi's Atomic Energy Project) are the first Werners to pop into my mind, so it's hard for me not to think about Nazis. Plus, where I live, enforcing the v pronunciation would be an uphill battle. The w pronunciation is very surnamey and uncomfortably close to 'wiener.'

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Drystan looks like a chemical to me or, as someone else pointed out, like a cold medicine.

Werner - too surnamey. Though it would fit in because last-names-as-first-names are very trendy.

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Drystan - sounds like a kind of over-the-counter cold medicine?

I also prefer the Verner-pronounciation to Werner. I think it feels a bit old-fashioned but that is not necessarily a bad thing. I think most old-fashioned names are lovely on children and it's always nice to see a name that is not so common being used.

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are you pronouncing it with the 'w' or the 'v' like the german pnn?
i like it better VER-nuh.
I like the sound Drysden if thats how it's prounounced, but the look of Drystan I dont like..i see it like Dry Stan and want to say it like its two words.