If YOU have an Evie

I dont HAVE an Evie but I am conflicted by it. My cousin Evirr is the sweetist young lady Ive ever met (she is eleven) she is fun, energetic and smart. But an Evie I knew who was a sister of a friend was a vile girl, bullied old ladies at the bus stop, had lip fillers at 14 and extensions and expensive phones ect, was rude and spiteful. So idk depends how you raise your child I guess

Much rather Evie than Elizabeth, much much prettier!

I much prefer Elizabeth. Find it much prettier and more classic. Just shows how subjective names are!

@Edenember I agree 😍

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@Jenkins38 Eve is a beautiful, classic name, you could say it’s the most classic name in the book, literally 😂 but still not overused... I desperately wanted my first daughter to be called this but didn’t get my way as OH had an aversion to it... it’s lovely and I don’t think you need to feel bad at all. Evie is a one of the few -ie names I still think is grown up and sophisticated on a grown lady, I always think of Evie from V for vendetta. It’s a lovely name that happened to become popular but your own Evie is the only one that matters.

Much better to choose a name you love that’s popular than pick something just because it’s slightly less so. My daughter is Ruby and people on here are always saying it’s “overused” and “popular” but tbh I really don’t encounter than many. She’s the only one at her nursery, and of her little friends. We also chose a top 20 name for her sibling and I don’t regret it, I love both.

As someone else says it depends so much on where you live, and who you ask. Try to think back to when you chose it and why and let that reassure you that you made the right decision. She’s YOUR Evie.

Whoops! Me too haha!

Much rather Evie than Elizabeth, much much prettier!

I really wouldn't go by what you see on Mumsnet. This is a very specific forum which I wouldn't judge the rest of the world by.

Interesting thread. Was about to reply and reassure OP @Jenkins38 but that's probably a total waste of time given how old the post is so thanks @Kokeshi123 for alerting me to the fact it's a ZOMBIE THREAD!
OP how do you feel about your daughters name now (if you're still on mumsnet)

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I personally love the name Evie.

My cousin's DD is called Evie and I am also a teacher (in a college) and I have only ever taught one in my 3 years of teaching.

I personally prefer it to all the Ellie's I teach (and there are so many!)

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I think it’s assumed to be much more popular than it is, because it often gets ‘lumped’ together with the names Eva, Ava, Edie, Ada and Isla - even though they’re all different names. There’s a very vowel-heavy trend and it’s a shame really, because they’re nice names in their own right.

I don't have an Evie, but I think it's lovely.

I don't like similar names like Eva, Ava, Ivy, Evelyn, Evangeline, Edie though.

Eve is fine.

But, OP, you called your DD Eve, not Evie.

Hiya, I am 20 and my name is Evie, I love my name and many people that I meet of all ages always tell me what a pretty name I have. For a while I didn’t like it when I was little but as I’ve got older I appreciate it more. I’m sure she will love being called evie, in fact I always smile when I’m out and I hear a little girl called evie because for ages there wasn’t many of us ahaha. I hope this helps! Xxx

I'm an Evie who wishes I was just plain Eve.

I have an 11 year old Evelyn, who tends to be called Evie. There has never been another Evie at her school, let alone in her class. (The 'popular' names seem to be Georgia, Amy and Rosie).

I do have some misgivings about her name becoming so popular since we named here. These largely stem from my name being very popular amongst my generation (there were 6 Sarah's in my class at primary school, and I've always disliked my name). But she likes her name. So I try not to think about it.

Reading with interest - its still one of my top two girl names (due August). I love short classic names and this tops that list.

I always loved Ava which goes so nicely with my last name but my SIL named my niece that - so now im worried about anything too close sounding too!

Honestly, untill you mentioned it I hadnt read much flack about it and ive been keeping any eye out. Its lovely.

haha! see you just can't let nut jobs off the internet influence your opinions/feelings!

Surely all names are "common" to an extent (unless bizarrely made up?)

I know how you feel as dc1's name gets a similar reaction on here. But, names are popular because in general people like them and Evie is a lovely name. You have not failed any more the parents of my generation's Claires, Sarahs and Kates failed. They are great names with the advantage that no one will be able to pigeon hole them: an Eve will be able to do anything she choses in any social circle without anyone batting an eyelid at her name. Persephone may find this more of a challenge.

Name popularity is often down to area, there are no Eves in my DCs classes but there are 3 girls in one of their classes with the same much rarer name (although it is popular in E Europe where 2 of them are from). Eve is a classic name, in the same way that Adam is....hardly on trend.

My eldest is Evelyn, Evie for short. She is 4 so it's hard to tell if she's happy with it or not.

I frankly don't care how popular a name is. If DH and I like it and agree then that's what we'll call our children. It's hard enough to find agreement without worrying about popularity.

DD2 is Sophia. DC3, due in 5 weeks, will be something quite popular if a boy and a lot less popular if a girl. Finding a girl's name we both liked was VERY difficult this time!

MN is not a representative sample of the world - there are names in fashion on here and out of fashion everywhere else, and vice versa. Evie is a beautiful name no matter what the fashion.

I have an Isobel. There were none at any of her nurseries, none at her preschool, and now there are 3 (different spellings) in her year in reception (two form entry, so 1 in 10 girls is called Isobel). There are none in the year above, so this was slightly fluke. But screw it - I love her name, and she's a different Isobel from all the other Isobels I have ever (or will ever) meet :)

Also, I did the maths, and (if I remember rightly) even though Isobel/Isabel/Isabella/Isabelle add up to about 6000 girls in 2011, there were 300,000 girls born. So 1/50 had this name. Or 1/100 babies if you count the boys. So even the most common names are not that common.

You'd bump into loads of Elizabeths if you had an Elizabeth. You just notice them more when you've got a reason to notice them.