Evelyn?

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PooDogMillionaire · 20/01/2016 16:29

Unusual but I like it, thoughts?

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Thurlow · 20/01/2016 17:02

Lovely. Friend just named their DD that. However they did have to put a message online about a week later saying how it was pronounced - they'd obviously had a lot of people asking or mispronouncing it!

My instinct was to say Eve-lin, but I half suspected that was wrong. That's how they are pronouncing it, so I imagine they'd had a lot of people saying Eh-va-lyn.

Quite like the whole Eleanor/Elinor debate.

stitchglitched · 20/01/2016 16:54

My baby DD is Evelyn so obviously I love it! We pronounce it eh-vah-lyn. I've heard it is quite popular but we haven't come across any others yet.

squoosh · 20/01/2016 16:52

This link says it was the 31st most popular girls' name in 2014, and I'd imagine it went higher again in 2015.

names.darkgreener.com/#evelyn

squoosh · 20/01/2016 16:51

Not as unusual as you may think. It's actually become pretty popular in the past couple of years.

It can be pronounced eh-vah-lyn or ee-vah-lyn, or ev-lin come to think of it so don't pick if the 'wrong' pronunciation would irritate you.

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PooDogMillionaire · 20/01/2016 16:30

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced Eh-vah-lyn

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