Thanks all so far for your comments, they are all really helpful and it is good to hear others views and perspectives. For a number of months I thought we had decided on a name, that being Nina. I stupidly made the mistake of disclosing this to a family member, who didn’t like it and then proceeded to make siren noises, “nee-naw nee-naw”. So this basically resulted in me doubting our original settled name choice, even know I know we shouldn’t care what others think, as long as my partner and I are happy and both in agreement.
Honestly, I feel like the amount of time I’ve spent trawling through various sites trying to find the ‘perfect’ name probably equates to days.
Personally out of the three, my favourite is Nina, whilst my partner prefers Evelyn. My only concern about Evelyn is pronunciation issues as I think there are three separate ways to pronounce the name. Should we go for this, we will be pronouncing the name “ehv-eh-lyn”. But it is likely we would call her eve/evie, just that I think Evelyn sounds more elegant and professional, and she would also have the choice to go by her full name if she wanted to. I am aware it is quite popular but I am not too fussed.
Also in regard to the middle names, we wanted this to be a nod to both of our mothers. My mums name is Jennifer Lynn and partners mums name is Margaret Rose.
So, if we go for Nina it would be Nina Jennifer-Rose, and if we went for Evelyn it would be Evelyn Margot (the Lyn In Evelyn a nod to my mum and Margot is the French form of Margaret which I prefer).