Avril?

[MyGardenIsStillSavage]

Nice or naff?

[CharlieCoCo]

nice. i can see both a pretty girly girl and a tom boy called Avril.

[MyGardenIsStillSavage]

Thank you. I love it but dh says all he hears is Bovril ! I'm not even pregnant yet so just beig nosy as to what the general opinion was! We already have a 4 yr old ds and I think we are sorted on a name should we have another ds but the girl's name is proving harder! Still plenty of time to twist dh's arm discuss it!

[CharlieCoCo]

nah i dont hear that as ah and bov are really different so even though they both end in ril i dont link them.

[MyGardenIsStillSavage]

Thank you I am going to print this off to show dh!! .

He actually said it's a nice name but was worried other people would make the bovril association too. Hmmm told him I think he's on his own with that one!

[SolarPanel]

Not to my taste really (love April though, quite a different sound which you may or may not like!)

[ValiumBandwitch]

Awful

[Rhubarbgarden]

Ooh I love Avril. Would be on my shortlist but dd1 is an A.

[zippy539]

Torn. I was bullied mercilessly by an Avril at school in the 1970s so not disposed to the name - but thinking about it, it is actually quite nice.

[SolarPanel]

I didn't think "Bovril" but "Anvil" crossed my mind.

[bleedingstill]

beautiful

[PaganOfBologna]

For some reason I don't like, and I don't think it is related to the teeny bopster

Something to do with A Frill maybe. Struggling to exactly describe my aversion to it (and I'm not into pretty flowery names either)

[MelinaM]

I prefer April too

[DiveBomb]

I hear 'Advil'.

[DriverDan]

Ha this has reminded me of being a teenager when Avril Lavigne was about, I look a lot like her and being the 'knock off version' earned me the nickname Bovril Latrine

It's an ok name, prefer it outside April though but that's probably just me!

[frakyouveryverymuch]

Avril is a great name. Was on our list but baby is due this month and we live in France...

[Hedwig3]

Always makes me thimk of Howards Way but that is because I am getting old!

[confusedduck86]

Aveil does make me think of Bovril mainly because one of my mates called Avril was nicknamed Bov, but if you like it who cares?

[DELHI]

I love this name.

[zozzle]

Nice.

[emeraldislander]

I've just read a book with an 'Averil' which I quite liked.