Daughter is almost 10 months old... I don't know if I regret her name :(

I think Graceynn is really lovely.

i love it! genuinely love it. bollox to what others think or say. very pretty indeed x

Nothing wrong with Gracelynn, honestly, I think it's gorgeous. I wanted to call one of my DDs Grace, but was put off by its popularity - wish I'd thought of it!

Gracelynn is a beautiful name. You have absolutely nothing to worry about there.

I honestly can't imagine what issue anyone would have with it.

I think the _ Lynn as a single name will always sound unusual/ very American to British ears, but its nothing to get too worked up over. As some have said, you can simply break it up on the birth cert, or else leave as is but go with Grace as a NN that will let your daughter fit in until such time as she can decide for herself.

If you love it then stuff what others think!

Jesus I thought you were going to say something mental like Diamonte-LouLou.

Gracelynn is lovely! Don't change it!

I think it's nice. It sounds quite grown up and I can imagine people saying it a lot because it rolls off the tongue not because they are wondering why you used it.

Oh gosh that's lovely OP, not what I was expecting.

You could shorten it to Gracie if you wanted.
Please don't waste any more time worrying about it.

Gracelynn is lovely. Keep it as her name and just refer to her as Gracie when you are out and about. You don't have to give out her full birth certificate name to everyone, anyway

I actually really like it OP, and it would be natural to shorten it as a NN to Grace which is a beautiful name on its own.
I wouldn't change it.

You can't please everybody and you shouldn't feel like you need to....if you and your husband like it then that all that matters.

Gracelynn is pretty. It is unusual though as a combination so you will get people repeating it and commenting on the novelty; it might not be meant unkindly. I love hearing what people have chosen for their babies.

I have an unusual name that people on here don't like, but never had anything negative from other adults and I like it

She's got lots of options to shorten it if she really wanted to, but I doubt she will.

If YOU love it, and your husband loves it, just have some strength in your convictions and screw what anyone else thinks.

Do you really want to look back in five years and regret shortening to Grace, just because you felt like other people didn't like it?

ooh snap Beez

Gracelynn is a pretty name - had;t heard it before.

Much nicer than Caitlin which is actually supposed to be pronounced Kathleen, if you are Irish...

OP - Gracelynn is fine! As for school, they will have had far more unusual names I'm sure. Don't worry about it.
As you say, you do sometimes shorten it to Grace yourself and maybe she will too. Some little girls do love to use their full names when people ask them what they are called though! 'My name is Bethany Arabella!'
I've never been quite sure how to pronounce Caitlin. I know it's usually 'Katelin' but as it's (I think) the Irish spelling of Kathleen, I wondered whether it should really be 'Kat'lin' if you see what I mean.🙃

It's a lovely name and as others have said, both Grace/Gracie and Lyn sound great. I would try shortening it informally now and if DD later wants to change her name, she can.

I thought you were going to say you'd called her something like Rose of Sharon (from The Grapes of Wrath, I think). Now that sounds American! Lovely too though.

If I met a Gracelynn I'd probably make a conscious effort to deliberately say it out loud more than I usually would with a name. At least at first. To 'get my mouth around it' if that makes sense. I'm not sure whether there should be a slight pause in the middle and if so, how slight.

That might be what people are doing when it seems like they're deliberately saying it. But coupled with your memory of the thread on here it's amounting to more in your mind.

It's a lovely name, and I imagine it was quite snobby people putting it down in that thread. Rude people always find a way - if you changed it a different group of rude people would probably find fault with her new name anyway.

Nothing wrong with that.
There was a girl at ds's nursery called Cupcake. I thought it was a NN but apparently not.

That's lovely! I wouldn't change that if you like it - what a bloody cheek of people to be making digs!

I can see what you mean about a bit American but I don't really see what difference that makes - there's lots of lovely American names. And lots of crap UK ones.

My only concern is that I wouldn't pronounce it properly through unfamiliarity, I'd probably say 'Grace-e-lynn' the first time, but that's hardly a thing to worry about, easily corrected.

I think Gracelynn is a really lovely name. Unusual, but in a good way! I can't imagine anyone would think it was awful. What has given you the idea that it is not liked? I'm truly astonished.

Crikey op, that's a lovely name!

And easily enough shortened to grace or Gracie should she prefer that.

I really like that - it has a really classical feel to it (and passes the high court judge test that mners worry about so much!)

Gosh. I was expecting something really awful but Gracelynn is lovely. Really very nice. It is unusual but works a name, which is so often not the case with glued together names.

Keep it!

Gracie is a delightful nn but please don't feel you have to avoid using her full name. It's beautiful.

I think I'd repeat it if you told me. Not from shock or dislike but because it's not a name I've come across before and it feels nice in the mouth IYSWIM.