Please give me your gut reaction too… Daelyn

[Picklemom]

Interested in anyone's first reaction to that name.

Sounds like medication

Depends on your accent.

Made up. Way too much like Darren. No.

I thought that it was 50/50 between made up or a rare Welsh name I'd never heard of. I like it - it looks very name-shaped to me.

I immediately thought made-up and American South, like Rosa Lyn. I also assumed girl. I like the name Danae which is a Greek name, girl's.

Just no.

Further to Cashmere's comment, Daelyn might be derived from Old Norse, but its origins would be from a place name not a personal name.

'Dael' is Old Norse/Viking for valley (it survives today as 'dale'). A very similar word is found in Old English.

Winn/Vinn is Old Norse for 'meadow' or 'pasture'.

So Dael + Winn could perhaps give Daelwinn = modern Daelyn = meadow valley

I don't think I'd choose it as a name for a daughter, but many people do use place names as personal names.

However, whatever its origins, it does rather remind me of the East Asian brand name 'Daewoo'.

1. Welsh?
2. Made up?
3. Sci-fi/fantasy origin?
4. More trouble than it's worth, unless you and the name are both Welsh.

Terrible.

A version of Dylan? Welsh in origin? Not very nice to my ears.

I quite like it.

Sounds yokel and cheap.

No. just no.

WTF, how do I pronounce that? Boy or Girl???

Looks very Game of Thrones to me too.

Gleely shags her brother and then slits his throat.

Not my style sorry - Is too similar to all the other -lyn names.

Shaelyn
Braelyn
Daelyn
Kailyn
Jailyn

They don't conjure nice associations.
Very early 00's faddy.

1. Character from a futuristic dystopian movie (e.g. Hunger Games, Blade Runner)
2. American reality TV star

My first impression is Anerican South as well. It's not to my taste and doesn't sound very nice when I say it out loud.

I can't tell what gender the child is. I'd have to ask how to pronounce it. It does look a little bit pretentious tbh.

Its quite pretty once you get used to it.

Another one who thought of Daenerys from GOT.

My first thought was also Daenarys Stormborn of House Targaryen. Is that what you were going for?

Sounds like a kind of bleach or fabric dye.

No, just No

It's the kind of name that would be fine once you knew the child. Trying to be kind You'd be unlikely to get five in the class. But you would spend your life/as would Daelyn spelling it and getting birthday cards spelt wrongly. Not fair on the child, imo.

I gave my DD an unusual spelling and even MIL gets it wrong. Also my DS's name is the ordinary spelling but people assume that his is weird too, because DD's is. So they get them both wrong. V. annoying!

Is it a girl? What about Rae? That's an actual name.

Sorry but YUK!