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Ella, Evelyn, Elizabeth, Ava or Anna!

59 replies

Sandydunes · 16/05/2012 14:06

Please help me decide as I am about to give birth any day now and am getting sick of thinking about these names...they are all starting to blur!

I have a gut feeling of my two favourites and OH likes another two better so would love some outside opinions.

The middle name would be either Margaret or Claire.

Thanks in advance for all your honest opinions!

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kerala · 16/05/2012 14:28

maybe take into account that any variant of eve super popular. One third of the girls in DDS class called eve/eva/evie its this generations Sarah. Fine if this doesn't bother you but know it riles my friends who have eves who have said if they had known would have picked other names.

UnnamedFemaleProtagonist · 16/05/2012 14:28

Oops.

Anna
Elizabeth
Evelyn.

UnnamedFemaleProtagonist · 16/05/2012 14:27

Ava and Ella are everywhere. Obviously that is because they are lovely names, but they are ten-a-penny.

In order, I like:

Anna
Elizabeth
Anna

McKayz · 16/05/2012 14:22

Evelyn. It's a gorgeous name. DH has said no Sad

MaggieMagnolia · 16/05/2012 14:21

Evelyn Margaret is lovely Smile

ilovemydogandMrObama · 16/05/2012 14:20

All names date a person, so go with the name you like. There are 3 Elizabeths in DD1's year, so not sure what's 'common' Hmm

YouFloatLikeAFeather · 16/05/2012 14:14

Ava is my favourite.

Ella is ok.
Evelyn is pretty but would get shortened to Evie which I really don't like
Elizabeth is nice and has some nice nicknames (Betty, Beth) but also lots of not so nice ones.
Anna is nice but dull.

MamaMary · 16/05/2012 14:12

Elizabeth and Anna are the nicest.

Don't go for Ava - it's so common now and it'll date her (there are loads of Avas, Evas etc at the moment).

wheniwishuponastar · 16/05/2012 14:10

I like Ella best. Don't like Evelyn or Elizabeth. (Too long/old fashioned.) The other two are so so. Ava makes me think of Eva Braun (Hitler's girlfriend - whose middle name I just found out was Anna!). Anna is ok but feels a bit too used/ordinary.