AIBU to think my DH has gone mad over this baby name?

The shop was called Anavrin, not Nevaeh.

I know a Vicki who was christened Vicki and she absolutely hates it when people call her Victoria, usually in jest like when your mother was about to tell you off so called by your full name, because it's not her name.
Agree it's not a good idea to officially use a nickname or shortened version as a child's given name. When they go to school, if their name can be shortened in any way, it will be.
See the current 'Isabella' thread.

Amusingly my dm sounded as working class as her roots and after delivering a boy to a very middle class couple she asked the babies name.
It was Joshua.
My dm replied - That was my dad’s name.
Their faces were a picture and dm often wondered if the parents revised their name choice.

In 1895 my grandad would have been given a standard biblical name.
90 years later it was a name used by middle class professionals.

Yeah, I really like Victoria as a name, but dislike Vicky. (And anyone called Victoria is going to be called Vicky very quickly!) I can't explain why. I just don't like the sound of it. And I knew 2 Vickys in the 1980s who I LOATHED. Maybe that is part of the reason.

DH wanted to call our second child Victoria, and I vetoed it - as I didn't want her to be called Vicky!

i do not get the aversion to teaching people how to pronounce or spell your name? so what, you tell them once and move on.

should everyone be called bob so its easy for strangers? bizarre rationale

Nev (as in never) ay (as in day) er/a.
Emphasis on the second syllable.

Yup! Time for a rollback! Victorian names like Emily, Alice, Charlotte were popular in the late 70s and the 80s, and are still in the top 100, but not so much Victoria, Elizabeth etc

As another poster says
He’s signing his poor child up to have to spell her name to every person she meets
I have one

it’s fucking annoying
names are compromise not one completely over riding the other

The insinuation was there the moment you mentioned ‘lower socioeconomic group’. We all know that means ‘beneath oneself’.

Anything's better than Nevaeh! How on earth is it even pronounced?

The Niamh I knew was in her 40s or 50s. Wouldn't be my first choice either - albeit our family does have distant Irish heritage - but some names will certainly date better than others.

'Niamh' isn't so uncommon that no one's ever heard of it, or a name that will date you within a few years of your birth. If you're a Nicola, Lisa, Rebecca, or Amanda, your birth year can pretty much be pinned down within a decade. 2020s equivalents are probably names like Olivia, Isabella, Evie and Elsie.

I don't think it's that unique a name these days. I also don't think it's that bad a name.

Yeah, What happened to calling your child Emma, Charlotte, Hannah, Emily Sophie, Elizabeth, Bethan, Sarah, Rebecca, Lucy??? Just normal ordinary names that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

9 times out of 10 - on the baby name board, when somebody suggests a name for their child, it's a ridiculous, laughable, or extremely hard to spell (and pronounce) name.

I actually know quite a number of people who have got children with ridiculous names, or hard to spell/awkwardly spelt names, names like Ashleigh, Devonne, Deackonne, Bexleigh, and Harmonee etc, and they do nothing but bitch and carp about how nobody ever spells or pronounces their child's name properly. I'm like, 'well, duh. What did you expect?! 🙄

Or Rachel, Eleanor, Annie - none of which are in the top 100 list I just read..

Stay strong @kweefa

His name suggestion is utter shite and you should definitely veto it.

Nevaeh - she would have to spell it out. Every. Single. Day. of her life - how tedious

Gemma is perfectly fine as a name!

Vicky as a given name is not great, but it falls under the general rule of "don't give obviously nicknamey names as given names."

It's horrible.

I like Oliver and Ophelia.

I'd love it if a parent dared to call their child Gemma these days. Or Vicky.

That'd be genuinely unique.

Sorry, but that name is awful. Nevaeh??? (Heaven backwards?!)

I don't even know how you pronounce it. (Neevah?!) It's so naff, and definitely not yooneek. I would be so embarrassed for anyone who called their child this. (AND feel sorry for the child!) 😬

And tbf, Neveah is much nicer than Ottilie!

@ChonkyRabbit I feel your pain! The entire name including the middle one needs a full conversation for mine 😂 On the plus side, if a cold caller can't pronounce it then I'm not here.

Well it wouldn’t be my choice either but it means heaven and is better than Nevaeh imo.
I wouldn’t have Niamh it’s so common now.

I know a Neave which is spelt like that

I think people are more likely to know how to pronounce Niamh than a frankly made up name like Nevaeh.

Nevaeh would work beautifully together with Eva as a middle name (pronounced the East European way) - especially if your surname is Lewis, Blatt or Appleton.

Where did I say anything like that? I was merely stating a fact, just as people would be to state that the name Piers is more often used by parents in a higher socioeconomic group, and just as you are with your "Ottilie" comments.