I know that there has been a lot of hate on -yn endings because they are “trendy” and “kre8iv” and while I somewhat agree, I do understand why some parents use [name_f]Madelyn[/name_f] or [name_f]Kathryn[/name_f]. If you are pronouncing [name_f]Madelyn[/name_f] Mad-uh-lin then it makes sense and it might look prettier to some people. What I don’t understand is why you would spell [name_u]Madison[/name_u] [name_f]Madisyn[/name_f] because [name_u]Madison[/name_u] is pronounced Mad-i-sun not Mad-i-sin. Same goes for [name_u]Jordan[/name_u]/[name_u]Jordyn[/name_u] because Jor-dun and Jor-din sound different. I don’t know any words in English where -yn is pronounced -un, I’m not trying to hate on these spellings, I’m just confused. So is there a specific reason why people choose these spellings?
Because they think it makes the name look more feminine. But it just comes across as trendy.
Yeah, I much prefer Madeleine, Madeline, Katherine, Caroline, Alison (Allison), and Caitlin much more than Madelyn (blech), Kathryn (meh), Carolyn (also meh), Allisyn (trendy), and Kaitlyn (not THAT bad). I don’t like Madison and Jordan either way, and pronunciation does change like with Madeline and Madelyn. It’s personal preference, but I see it as too frilly and trendy
[name_f]My[/name_f] name is [name_f]Kaitlyn[/name_f], and I prefer spelling my name this way rather than [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f]. I just think my name looks prettier that way, and I’m glad my mom did too!
[name_m]Just[/name_m] giving the perspective of someone with a name that ends in -yn. I’m not a fan of most names with that trend, but I think it’s not all that bad to give a child that ending rather than -son or -in ending. [name_m]Just[/name_m] a spelling variation that people think feminizes a name.
@marshmallow1207 I don’t have a problem with the name [name_f]Kaitlyn[/name_f], because it is pronounced how it is written. I just don’t understand why names are spelt one way and pronounced differently.
Maybe it’s an accent thing, or my misunderstanding how you’ve spelled it out phonetically, but I would pronounce [name_u]Madison[/name_u] as Mad-i-sin and [name_u]Jordan[/name_u] as Jor-din. [name_u]Madison[/name_u]/[name_f]Madisyn[/name_f], [name_u]Jordan[/name_u]/[name_u]Jordyn[/name_u], and [name_f]Kathryn[/name_f] would all have the same ending sound, “in” like e.g. “in the house.” “sun” and “dun” would rhyme with “fun,” not “in.” So [name_f]Madisyn[/name_f] for [name_u]Madison[/name_u] and [name_u]Jordyn[/name_u] for [name_u]Jordan[/name_u] would be phonetically accurate to me. Not keen on [name_f]Madisyn[/name_f] myself since it’s mostly a girls’ name even spelled that way; I can see why people choose [name_u]Jordyn[/name_u] to make it more gender-specific.
That’s good! I personally don’t like most -yn names and some actually look okay. I’m happy you’re proud of your name 
I wasn’t offended or anything, I just wanted to give the perspective of a person who had to wear that kind of name. 
To the person that talked about the accent thing, I say [name_u]Madison[/name_u] the same way. That may be it?
@bonfireazalea Oh, that was you
@bonfireazalea [name_f]My[/name_f] accent is generically English so it probably is an accent thing. I guess I pronounce the ending of [name_u]Madison[/name_u] like son, and [name_f]Madelyn[/name_f] like in.
People just like the letter Y. I don’t know. I remember learning back in early grade school that Y is sometimes a vowel, sometimes a consonant, but I don’t remember learning that you could use it to replace any vowel you wanted willy nilly. It has become the blank scrabble tile of letters.
I have a -yn ending name as well. It seems really late 70s (when I was born) to me. I think Ys started to get big in the 70s and then peaked in the early 90s with the proliferation of Austyns and Brandyns. But maybe not, cause people are still crazy for Ys. When will the tyranny of the Y end? Who can say?
I’m not a of the -yn endings because to me y’s, unless on the end of a word or name, have the hard “eye” sound. So I want to pronounce the names with them randomly put in there with the sound too. So names like, [name_u]Wynter[/name_u] (someone just posted this) [name_u]Jordyn[/name_u], [name_u]Austyn[/name_u],I want to say like, W-eye-nter, Jor-dine and Aust-eye-n. It just seems to me like, just because you want it to make the soft “i” sound doesn’t mean it does. I think in names that have the “eye” sound in them then the “i” and “y” can be acceptably be interchanged, depending on preference (ex. [name_f]Lyla[/name_f]:[name_f]Lila[/name_f]).
I think most people tend to say all unstressed short vowels the same way. So, [name_u]Jordan[/name_u], [name_m]Jorden[/name_m], [name_u]Jordin[/name_u], [name_m]Jordon[/name_m], [name_m]Jordun[/name_m], and [name_u]Jordyn[/name_u] all sound pretty much the same. (It would be different if you were changing the stressed vowel, of course.) Names like [name_f]Madeline[/name_f] are a little tricky because normally in English, the “e” makes the “i” into a long vowel. To make sure people pronounce it as a short unstressed vowel (“lin” vs. “line”), I can see why people spell it with the “lyn” ending. They could use a different vowel while leaving off the “e”, it just looks a little odd: Madelan, Madelen, Madelin, [name_f]Madelon[/name_f], Madelun.
[name_f]My[/name_f] grandmother was named [name_f]Madelyn[/name_f] and was born in 1912 (her mother explained it like the pp above – she didn’t want her to be called Mad-uh-[name_f]LINE[/name_f]. We named our daughter after her. That’s why I chose the “yn” ending.