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When I saw the name Carsyn, I figured someone had feminized it for their baby girl. What is with this trend of replacing certain vowels with y's in Anglophone masculine names? I mean, I know in Welsh the -yn ending is technically masculine (though we still have feminine names like Bronwyn and Gwendolyn), but outside of Wales these 'y' names look remarkably feminine! I don't understand it.

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Allen is fine, however.

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