-n names that sound like -ing verbs

General Name Discussion
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Many names end with -n. -ing words are often pronounced without the final G. Any other names you can think of?

  • Aaron - airing (depends on dialect)
  • Aidan - aiding
  • Boden - boding
  • Brandon - branding
  • Brayden - braiding
  • Cason - casing
  • Colin - calling (depends on dialect)
  • Crispin - crisping
  • Darren - daring (depends on dialect)
  • Dayton - dating
  • Duncan - dunking
  • Dustin - dusting
  • Farren - faring
  • Grayson - gracing
  • Holden - holding
  • Karen - caring (depends on dialect)
  • Jayden - jading?
  • Jaylyn - jailing
  • Landon - landing
  • Mason - macing?
  • Nixon - nixing
  • Owen - owing
  • Raylyn - railing
  • Robin - robbing
  • Rowan - rowing
  • Rylan - riling
  • Sharon - sharing
  • Taryn - tearing
  • Tristan - trysting
  • Warren - warring
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I don’t know where you’re from, but this definitely doesn’t happen with my accent! So interesting!

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I’ve never heard any of these names pronounced like this! Where are you from?

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For me, the names ending in “-on” sound different, so they don’t end up sounding like gerunds. [name_m]Even[/name_m] for the others, I rarely pronounce “ing” without the “g”, so it doesnt make the names seem unusable at all. I get what you mean, though. [name_u]Raiden[/name_u] (ridin’) is another that comes to mind.

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Waylon- wailing… part of the reason why I’m not a huge fan of the name

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I’m in that UK and I have to say none of these match up in my accent :grimacing:

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That doesn’t happen with my accent but it’s interesting!

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I’m [name_u]Southern[/name_u] (U.S.) and I definitely do hear this in a few of these names now that you’ve pointed it out. Especially [name_u]Rowan[/name_u], [name_u]Landon[/name_u], [name_u]Robin[/name_u], [name_f]Taryn[/name_f], [name_u]Owen[/name_u], [name_f]Karen[/name_f], [name_u]Holden[/name_u], [name_m]Duncan[/name_m], [name_u]Brayden[/name_u], and [name_u]Dustin[/name_u].

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Cruisin’ for a bruisin’? :wink:

We can only hope that [name_u]Dustin[/name_u] will do a lot of dusting!

Very interesting (int’restin’) that this doesn’t happen in some places!

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In my accent the -g in -ing is often dropped so these make a lot of sense to me! Especially [name_u]Holden[/name_u] = holdin’ and [name_f]Jaylyn[/name_f] = jailin’.

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Perrin could sound like ‘pairing’ in some accents but not mine haha