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I want to like Capucine because it looks cool but I just don’t think it sounds attractive.

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Maxine has always struck me as sexy. I wouldn’t use it but I don’t dislike it. I do like Max as a nn for it.

I don't like Maxine, too 50's to me. Love Capucine, it's really pretty.

dont like either

Maxine is okay, but not my style. Capucine is interesting - it makes me think of an agile acrobat or circus performer (or a monkey, for some reason).

This message was edited 4/13/2020, 12:25 PM

I like Maxine.

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Capucine just reminds me of the Capuchin Monks. I've visited one of their crypts made of human bones and the most extreme of them ate only foods with fungi. Not good associations for a name.

I love Capucine and really like Maxine.

Maxine is awesome. She's jazzy and fun, especially with the nickname Max.

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Capucine, on the other hand, doesn't appeal to me. In the French pronunciation, that middle U really bothers me to both say and hear. Reverting to my Midwestern American accent, which turn that U into a schwa sound, doesn't actually help much. :-(

Capucine is too much coffee for me.
Maxine isn't my style, but it's the name of my uncle's girlfriend (and the mother to his son).

Maxine is too brassy. And I know when it comes to Capucine, others have mentioned coffee, but I worked as a barista for four years, so it's way more coffee to me than it is to them. I always liked lattes better, anyway.

I like Maxine. I don’t get why people call it “old” or “frumpy”, it looks very stylish to me. Plus, the Max and Maxie nicknames.

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Capucine, I don’t like at all. It looks and sounds too much like “cappuccino” and “capuchin”. Maybe try Camille?

I think Maxine is stylish and I bet it'll come back in style in the next 20-30 years. It's my aunt's name but she's always gone by Mackie.

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Capucine is too coffee and too close to a kind of monkey for my comfort.

This message was edited 4/13/2020, 9:02 AM

Maxine is quite frumpy. There's a reason, I think, why the name was chosen for the cranky old woman on those Shoebox greeting cards.
But at least it sounds like a name, even though it also sounds like it could be a disinfectant or something. Like Bactine, only maximum?
Capucine doesn't sound like a person; it sounds like something you'd get at Starbucks in Paris.