Which would you regret more?

Yes but Eve?!

We have
Eve M
Eve L
Eve G
Evie
Eva

In one friendship group! Kill me now!

Go for the name you love. You can’t reliably predict who is going to be called what in future nursery/school classes. I used to take DD to a group where 3 out 10 of the children were called Quinn (2 girls, 1 boy) which is not something you’d expect whilst Olivia is supposedly really popular but I’ve only ever met 1.

I used a popular name for my DD and was worried about using it but realised it doesn’t really matter, no one cared if there were two or more kids of the same name when I was at school.
And I don’t care that there might be lots of Olivia’s. Even though it was one of most popular names when she was born I haven’t actually come across another one yet. You also get the added bonus that most people will be able to pronounce and spell it.

Go for the name you love. There's no guarantee that the most popular names are going to be the ones your child is surrounded by. Just going on a straw poll if my daughter's 2 form entry Y2 (60 kids), there's only 2 girls with the same top 10 name and another 2 girls with different top ten names. I suppose you have to ask yourself what will upset you more? Your daughter going to school surrounded by other Evelyn's or your daughter (with a different name) and not an Evelyn in sight.

My dd is Eve- only one in primary (200 kids) and Secondary school (over 1500 kids).

I love her name & she is unique even if there were two in the class

My dd is Sophie which is a popular name shes the only one in her class. Complete pot luck. I have a niece called Evelin she's the only I've met and I teach kids how to swim. Go with what you want op.

Go with the one you love, for sure.

For what it's worth, DD is 5 and there has never been an Evelyn within our friendship group/nursery/school

ds has a "current" name and dd has a name that was like 800 on the baby name list. I don't care about either as I picked the names I loved.

If you love Evelyn go for it

Use the name you love. One of my children has a top 5 name. Never met another one!

Eve is crazily over used I really wouldn’t. The parents who chose it regret it

That's the name we were going to choose if our son had been a girl.

I love older traditional names and don't care what others may think of it or how many others have it.

Go with the name you love, or if the popularity bothers you make it the middle name perhaps?

The name you love.

School is only a few short years.

Yes go with what you love. I have a ds with a name that was number 1 for years , I have only met a handful of others over the years. He was 1 of 2 in his whole primary school.
What's popular in statistics doesn't mean the whole class will have the same name in your area.
I would much rather a nice popular name than a unique one that no one can pronounce !

Go with the name you love!

Use the name you love. One of my children has a top 5 name. Never met another one!

If you pick it while knowing it’s popular then you shouldn’t have any regrets, and will probably be pleasantly surprised when there is only one Eve-variant in the class.

The regrets people have is when they pick a name they don’t realise is popular.

The name you love, always. I did for one of mine and I've never regretted it.

I would go with the name you love. My DD is Isabelle which according to statistics is very popular and a few comments were made when we announced it about "expecting something less common" but we both love it and DD suits it. Also there's only one other Isabelle and an Isabella at her large nursery so it actually doesnt seem as popular in our area. Go with Evelyn if thats what your gut is saying.

God not another Eve. At one point a third of the girls in dds class were named a variant of Eve utterly did my head in with confusion. This generations Sarah. One to avoid unless you really don’t mind about popularity