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WDYT of the name "Valentin" for a boy? How do you pronounce it? Do you think that, in this day and age, it's still usable?

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I like Valentín in Spanish prounounced vah-len-TEEN (more with a soft B than a V). I don't really like the name as pronounced in English. I think it is still usable today.

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WDYT of Fletcher Valentin or Valentin Fletcher? Which one do you prefer?
I don't really care for Fletcher, so I would prefer Valentin Flecher.

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I love Valentin and in Sweden it would be ok (there are 388 men/boys named Valentin) in Sweden. But then St Valentine's Day is called "All Hearts' Day" here.

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The nn we use for Valentin are Valle (Vahl-eh) and Tin-Tin.

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I would prefer Valentin Fletcher, b/c I don't like ln-as-fn (ln-as-mn are ok). But if you think a Valentin would be teased, then Fletcher Valentin would be safer.

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Another similar name in Sweden is Valdemar (Scandinavian form of Vladimar) but this would probably sound weird in England. WDYF of Valerius and Valerian?

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This message was edited 5/19/2006, 9:02 AM

I like Valentin, I'd think it's pron VAL-ehn-teen, but VAL-ehn-tin would be my second guess. I think kids might tease because of it, but they'll find something else if not his name if they want to anyway. I don't like either Valentin Fletcher or the other way around. I'd use Valentin with a different mn.

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I say VAL-en-teen on first glance, but I could get used to VAL-en-tin. Reminds me a bit of Quentin, and so it does sound masculine to my ears. I think that it could work--better than fully Valentine, if nothing else. A kid called Valentin might have some trouble when he's young, but he'd be pretty much fine as an adult, I think; it sounds like one of those names a person grows to appreciate. And the nn Val is hot. ;)

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I like Fletcher Valentin's rhythm better. It sounds jazzy to me, but that's because I hear Fletcher Henderson (a big band leader of the 40s) when I say it.

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Array (favourite combo would be Michael Valentine, as in Michael Valentine Smith of Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein--classic 60s sci-fi :)

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