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Re: WDYTO Robin?
I like Robin very much for a boy, certainly enough to use. For a girl I'd expect Robyn, but I don't like it much. I've got a cousin named Arthur Robin and always known as Robin - big, tough petrolhead who used to be a champion rally driver. often with a blind navigator.Morgan is a family name from way back at the beginning of the 19th century! Judging from the ln, and the address, he had Welsh parents. I wouldn't ever expect to see a female Morgan, though I believe there are some. I'd use it all right.
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Where do you live? (Where I live, most Morgans are female especially if they were born in the 90's).
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Morgan le Fay is a female character in Arthurian myth dating back hundreds of years if not more than a thousand. Spelt in any number of ways, it appeared as Morgan fairly early on.Morgan as a male name, however, is a transferred Welsh surname and hasn't been used as a fn for anything like as long.I'll be honest though. I absolutely hate it either way...
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Actually Morgan & Morcant appear as first names in the Book of Llandaff, which is a collection of manuscripts and charters dating back to c. 500. And it's been consistently in use ever since.
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