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What are your thoughts on Elvie?

58 replies

LuckyVal · 08/03/2014 00:14

Our girl is due in a couple of weeks and after much research(!) I've recently come to love the name Elvie.
It reminds me of many names that I love but that OH has not been keen on...
For example; Sylvie, Vivienne, Elsie, Edie
As it is very unusual I wondered what are your thoughts?

Thanks

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ListenToTheLady · 08/03/2014 14:21

It's great! Different, cute, but also I can see it working on a serious grown-up too.

PeanutPatty · 08/03/2014 14:18

It sounds confused to me.

tethersend · 08/03/2014 14:15

I know two Boys called Elvi.

RabbitPies · 08/03/2014 14:13

Too cutesy.

yourlittlesecret · 08/03/2014 13:50

I misread it as Elvis. Possibly others would as well.

13loki · 08/03/2014 13:45

I like it. But then, I have an Elfi (really Älfi, but most english speakers wouldn't know how to start to pronounce Ä).

ElviraPink · 08/03/2014 12:37

I like it

Topaz25 · 08/03/2014 12:23

TBH it does sound like a nickname rather than a real name to me. I don't think she would really be taken seriously as an adult. I love some of the other names on your list so maybe you could find a compromise with your OH that sounds more like a real name?

woodrunner · 08/03/2014 07:06

It's fine as a shortened version of a longer name. It's a bit restrictively cutesie on its own.

But I LOVE your longer list of names. So many gorgeous names on there. Vivienne and Sylvie are so elegant and beautiful. You need to get persuading your OH.

I know a Selvie (Turkish name.) Love that too.

TamerB · 08/03/2014 06:54

I think it sounds like someone made it up to be different from Evie.

YeahBitchMagnets · 08/03/2014 06:48

No. It's ok as a shortening for Elvira (which is horrible anyway) but on it's own it just sounds contrived and made up.

17leftfeet · 08/03/2014 06:44

Isn't it the nickname of the Jayne horrocks character in little voice?

MrsJamin · 08/03/2014 06:10

I know an elvie! It's sweet.

nooka · 08/03/2014 06:04

Seems like just a bit of a name to me, I'd immediately be wondering what it was short for.

Elvis is cool, but obviously not for a girl Grin

Pity your OH doesn't like the other names you've suggested, I like Vivienne a lot.

catinbootz · 08/03/2014 06:02

I know an Elvira nn Elvie. Gorgeous.

SuckingGin · 08/03/2014 06:02

I don't particularly like it personally, probably because Elvie makes me immediately think of Elvi the plus size clothing shop (in fact when this thread popped up in active convos I thought it was going to be a thread about the clothing store - and that the poster had just misspelled the name).

But stepping back from that association it isn't a bad name, so if you both really like it then go for it.

mathanxiety · 08/03/2014 05:59

I would use Alvy instead. It's an Irish name.

Or Elkie.

bubblegoose · 08/03/2014 03:01

I really like it.

gingerchick · 08/03/2014 02:34

Elvie immediately makes me think of the fat girl range of clothing (I am a fat girl) albeit spelt differently or the LV insurance company its made up sorry

NigellasDealer · 08/03/2014 02:06

oh right yes Elvira, popular name in Italy I think.

PassAFist · 08/03/2014 01:53

We have an annual Elvis festival in our town when we are invaded by Elvis Tribute Artists, and they are collectively referred to as the Elvie.

manicinsomniac · 08/03/2014 01:43

I quite like it, I think. Definitely unusual. Nicer than Pixie anyway, and that is definitely a name in use.

Nigellas wouldn't Elvie be short for Elvira in exactly the same way as Elfie is short for Elfrida? I don't think Elvie is any more made up than Elfie?

Nocomet · 08/03/2014 00:38

Sorry, makes me think of a character in Lord of the Rings or some other fantasy book.

NigellasDealer · 08/03/2014 00:36

I don't know - how about Elfie short for Elfrida?
Elvie kind of sounds 'made up' no offence

Innogen · 08/03/2014 00:35

LuckyVal... That's what I thought of when I heard the name. It isn't a name I'd choose. I genuinely believe that if you hear people's feelings, associations and negative perceptions, but still love the name, it is the one for you.

If someone saying they don't like it is enough to put you off, it's the wrong choice.

People hate my DCs names. But I don't, and that is what matters.