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Webster, Wystan, Wolfgang
Three W names that aren't William and that are difficult to make feminine. What do you think of these?

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No, no, and no. The only “ehhh, ok” one is Wolfgang, but I prefer Wolfram to it plenty. The nn Wolf isn’t awful. Webster is a name for a frog and Wystan I have no other descriptors for other than plain ugly.I like Wesley, Weston, Wilbur, Wilfred, Wilson, Wulfric and the aforementioned Wolfram for other non-William W boy names.
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A frog?
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The webbed toes, I suppose...for some reason frogs (and scuba gear) came to mind before spiders for me!Edit: I like the spider correlation more though, makes Webster mildly cooler.

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Originally, of course, Webster was feminine!I don't enjoy lnfns, and Wolfgang is too unEnglish. Wystan, as in Auden, is glorious and should be more widely appreciated; I'd love to meet a young one. What about Wallace, or Walter? I know Wallace sounds like and is reminiscent of Wallis, as in Mrs Simpson, but with luck she isn't well known in today's world.
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Don't like them
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Webster isn't terrible, but the ster ending was something that got tacked onto people's names for fun back in the 90s. Mike-ster, Rickster, Megster, Jensster, like that. Also, a favorite TV show of mine when I was little was Webster, which was very similar to Diff'rent Strokes in that it was about a black kid (both of them played by undersized actors) being adopted by a white family.Wystan, well, it makes me think of a car part for some reason, and Dristan nose spray, and also is easily misunderstood as Weston, which is pretty trendy right now.Wolfgang would definitely take a certain kind of person to pull off. It's just very dominating and distracting. It also sounds like a wolf pack.
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Wolfgang's lofty/rough/present/unsubtle, and if someone owns it, it's amazing.I like Webster, but I wonder how much of that is because I had a red dictionary I liked as a kid, plus a nice teacher Mr. Web, plus sympathy for spiders. I do think it is, in theory, better than Spencer, but it'd need a reason to catch on. It sounds more laidback than Walter, at least, but even dorkier than Dexter.Wystan reminds me of Hildred, Weiss, Tristan, and Kristen. I think the thing preventing it from seeming potentially unisex is its lack of appeal.

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I love Wolfgang and Wystan but don't really like Webster.
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