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Quinn, Rowan, or Ellis?
For a baby boy, surname Neville. What are the pros and cons you think of for each?
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Quinn Neville: Quinn is a nice, sharp name, and I like the unusual q letter, but the ns at the end of Quinn and at the beginning of Neville clash.
Rowan Neville: I like Rowan a lot, and it would be my pick out of these three. However, it has the same problem as Quinn.
Ellis Neville: this one doesn't have the "n problem", but its one caveat is that Ellis is, in my opinion, extraordinarily ugly.
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Rowan gets my vote. I love Rowan.
I think Quinn sounds kind of uptight on a guy.
Ellis is okay, just nms, kind of a generic seeming surname.
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Out of the three, I only dislike Rowan. Ellis is nice but Ellis Neville doesn't really flow, so Quinn Neville, in my opinion, sounds the best.
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Well, people apparently perceive Quinn as unisex; it isn't used at all where I live, so my only association is with The Mighty Quinn, which is a marvellous song but, like Clementine, would get progressively less marvellous the more often it was used. I find Quinn rather insubstantial, but as I say, I've got nothing to base that on really.
Ellis sounds like a dialectal pronunciation of Alice, which would be inconvenient for a boy.
Which leaves us with Rowan! I like it very much and have good memories of the only Rowan I've ever known, for what that's worth.
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On both Quinn and Rowan, the "n" at the end runs into Neville. So, Ellis.
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Ellis Neville flows the best to my ears and it looks really nice written out.
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Rowan, but Ellis is cool.Scratch Rowan, I'm going with Ellis.
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