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Wendel (which looks incomplete with no second l) seems dull and dorky. Germaine, in the US was a fairly popular name for black boys born in the seventies and eighties but it's now completely out of fashion. I don't like it anyway, the germ sound is unattractive. Also the line from Smokey and the Bandit "That's not germane to the situation" is a popular catchphrase.

Wendel is forever ruined for me because of an extremely clumsy and absentminded Wendell I was acquainted with. It sounds incredibly dorky to me. So, how about Denzel / Denzil instead. Even Wenzel. Or Windell / Wyndell.

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Germaine is really cool, except for the existence of the word germane, and it's slightly brought down by the word "germ" in it. But it's cool enough to use IMO. I would not mind being named it.

This message was edited 9/21/2014, 8:56 PM

Love it. Quirky nerd cool. Well, Wendel is quirky nerd cool. Germaine strikes me as being just-cool, like ice queen cool. Sleek and sharp and unforgiving.