start out with something you think to be mellifluous, Gwendalyn, and end up with Gigi.

Well, they're pretty different but it sounds like a crap shoot figuring out which (if either) is more mellifluous than the other. Listen one way and Gwendalyn has some harsh edges and abrupt turns; Gigi bubbles along in a nice friendly way.

And Helen, *any name can be made into a nickname. I was known as Craig the Leg for a period of time in my youth. Anyone with the last name of Griffin is open to all sorts of nickname abuse whatever her first name is. Look at your Benjie.