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Re: New name--(Gaelen (f) ) can anyone help me?
"Galen, however spelt, is a GUY'S name"
I beg to disagree with you on this one, Hid Diva. Galen is derived from the feminine-gender word "galene", meaning "tranquility" in Greek. All Galenes in my neck of the woods are girlies. Same goes for my slavic neighbours, where the name appears in several variations including Galina and Galya. The silly Romans decided to masculate the name into Galenius, and the rest is history.
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Ah, but Galene (or Galena) is as distinctive from Galen/Gaelen as Denise is from Dennis or Edwina from Edwin. Of course one can come up with feminized versions of male names, but they are best distinguished by BOTH spelling and pronunciation. "Gaelen" doesn't make the cut in that regard.
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CorrectionOops! A male version of the name *did* exist in classical Greece, Galenos (accented in the last syllable). Although I am lot aware of Galenos being presently used as a first name, I have seen it used as a surname.
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