why does almost no one like the name Camryn?

I like Cameron but not this spelling.

I knew someone who called their son Camron. I always thought it looked like they couldn't spell!

I like distinctly gendered names and Cameryn’s too unisex. The odd spelling doesn’t help.

It looks like you can’t spell ...

@Diverseopinions,

In Wales Camryn would be pronounced CAM-rin, and I think people would think it was a boy's name because it ends in -yn.

Cam in Welsh and Gaelic means crooked, so it's not great. Not sure where Cait and Tams come into it, Caitlin is Irish and Tamsin Cornish.

It's one of those American-style names Mormons give their kids when they've run out of ideas. One of those "non-names".

I'm open to some American influences but this trend of changing spellings is just annoying. There are some names which exist which have different versions e.g. Ann / Anne etc, but I don't know why you would want to create that. It doesn't add anything to it and really doesn't make you look unique. It just comes across that you want to appear unique but failed at it, as all you can do is take an existing name and change the spelling or pronunciation slightly.

It looks like a cat walked across the keyboard while you were typing

I don't even like 'Cameron', it's overdone and borderline chavvy (IMO)

The Welsh pronunciation of some names is attractive and the English one less so. 'Cam' has quite a hard sound. Kami is pretty.

I think a lot of Welsh sounding names don't go do well because people will tend to stress the second syllable. In Wales it would be 'Camrn' and the second syllable almost said under the breath.

But Cam on its own isn't perhaps as quaint as Meg , Cait, Tams - which all get a Welsh 'nn' added.

No idea why this popped into my head, but it's the best name in the world for a ventriloquist. You can/just have to say it without moving your lips!

Sorry OP

Camdyn
Ashtyn
Brandyn
Jaydyn

Etc.

Seen to be more acceptable spellings in the USA. They really stand out in he UK, and not in a good way.

(p.s. it was really hard to type those names out as autocorrect doesn’t accept them as real words).

There were 2 Camryns on dance moms.... I hated that programme

I like Cameron a lot, I think it’s a nice strong name which isn’t too popular but is recognisable enough. I prefer to use the correct spellings of names though, different if it’s an accepted variant eg Isabel/Isabelle but Camryn is just misspelled.

That's fine Squirtle but I still don't think the meaning of the name matters really. Making the poor DC have to spell it out for the rest of her life is a different matter!

@IsabelleSE19 I wouldn't normally care about the name meaning but if you give a child such a weird non name as camryn then people will end up spell checking it on google and then the meaning comes up on the search and it becomes apparent. I didn't go out to look up the meaning but when I did it went from being a weirdly spelt and shit name to a shit name with a shit meaning too.

Mystified by the amount of posters that take the meaning of a name so seriously that they wouldn't use it even if they like the sound of the name! It's not like it means Kitten-Killer.

I have a Cameron whose nose is perfectly shaped. My name means something pretty much the opposite of me and I don't give two shits about it.

Sorry for derail - I don't like Camryn for a girl but it's not my DC!

Bu that's because you are saying the ryn sound in your head as a British person and comparing it to the ron sound in your head as a British person.

Say them both as an American and it's less of a leap.

Are people assuming that Camryn is pronounced the same as Cameron (or Camdyn the same as Camden)? I totally wouldn't.

I parts of America they would be. Weird but true.

As a made-up name it's not the worst I've heard.

Christ, if you look on FB there's hundreds of them. Mostly women/girls. The spelling just looks so odd.

Unfortunately pp's are right in that it does make the parents look stupid.

Well it looks like a misspelling so poss that.

Are people assuming that Camryn is pronounced the same as Cameron (or Camdyn the same as Camden)? I totally wouldn't.
One of the things that confuses me about creative spellings is that I always assumed that people are using them because they want to make the pronunciation clear - eg they don't want CAM - uh - ruhn they want CAM- rin. But then I make an effort to pronounce them as they're spelt and apparently they are meant to be pronounced as the original spelling
It does my head in.
Eg Georgia is george- uh. Jorja should be hore-ha but I know that most English people with that spelling want it pronounced george-uh. But then you come across a Jorjia - to my mind they clearly want the extra i pronounced otherwise why use it? So it's george-ee-uh. But no it's supposed to be pronounced Georgia. It does my head in!