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How many Evies do you know?!

239 replies

pancakesandpepsi · 13/04/2023 08:23

So grateful for all the responses on my previous thread.
To further this - and hopefully help to narrow things down further for us - I wanted to ask specifically how any Evies do you know? If you’re happy to share your region (north, south etc) that would be great.
Thanks so much to those who already answered this as part of my previous thread!

Thanks in advance!

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RheneasAndSkarloey · 13/04/2023 20:56

My DD had an Evie, an Eva, two Ava's and an Aoife (Ee-fa) in her primary school class - and there were only 8 girls!

HuggingtheHRT · 13/04/2023 20:54

2 - aged 9 and 11

Cacla · 13/04/2023 20:54

My little girl is Evelyn, Evie for short. I live in Leeds and I don't know any others personally.

Justalittlebitmore · 13/04/2023 20:46

One dog

MyAnacondaMight · 13/04/2023 20:31

Four. If you include Eva and Ava then 13.

Their brothers are pretty much all called Theo and/or Teddy.

Cupcakey · 13/04/2023 20:27

1 and she is a stuck up pain in the arse!

TiedUpWithABlackVelvetBand · 13/04/2023 20:20

And going back to my original point, the 'sea' of Eve, Evie, Eva, Ava, Evelyn, Aoife just doesn't exist in my area. I know one adult Eve, who is an Evonne, one Eva, who is my 10yo DD, and a 14yo Eva, who lives in a different part of the country. I don't know any others but apparently they're everywhere.

They are everywhere. I’m at the arse end of the planet, and they’re everywhere. One random region in one country not having that many doesn’t make any difference.

Evie - and its ilk - are everywhere.

It’s an of-the-moment name, which means it will date (there is no doubt about this). Whether that bothers you (generic) is entirely individual and up to you. Clearly it doesn’t bother a lot of people.

PineapplePomPom · 13/04/2023 20:17

Sister is Eve - 49
Friend's Daughter Evie - 23
Neighbour's Baby Evie
Midlands 🙂

AmyandPhilipfan · 13/04/2023 20:03

At my daughter's dancing there is 'big Evie,' 'medium Evie' and 'little Evie.' Aged 9, 7 and 4. I also have a friend with a teenaged Evie. And mum acquaintances with 7 year old Eva and Evelyn. I know a toddler Evelyn too. We are north England.

YukoandHiro · 13/04/2023 19:47

Loads. London.

YunaBalloon · 13/04/2023 19:45
  1. Noth West. Age 5ish
WonderingWanda · 13/04/2023 19:45

I know one adult and one child Evie both in London.

Frankenpug23 · 13/04/2023 19:43

I have an Evie and I know of 2 others (both younger) - we call ours Eve 😀

Greenpin · 13/04/2023 19:42

About 5 years ago about half my Brownie pack were called Eve, Evie or Ava. If they weren't called that it was Millie ,Molly or Tilly.

grumpycow1 · 13/04/2023 19:38

Oh and one in her twenties!

grumpycow1 · 13/04/2023 19:38

1 aged 6 (south, city)

DontLikeMenthols · 13/04/2023 19:37

One…and she was a right bitch

StillWantingADog · 13/04/2023 19:28

A handful
nw
i like it but I think it needs to be a short form of Evelyn or Evangeline or a nn for Eve

CoffeeChocolateWine · 13/04/2023 19:24

Cos she is kidding herself. There a whole pile of people on this thread saying Eva / Evie etc are all just the same blob that merge into one and if someone can't see how that's perceived then they are deluding themselves when multiple people are saying that exact thing!!!

I'm baffled by why you think I am kidding myself...kidding myself about what exactly? I haven't claimed to think our name choice was original or imaginative. When we picked DDs name, we were fully aware she might end up being 'one of many' or that there might be several other children with similar sounding names in her class, but the fact is she's not in our particular area. I occasionally hear similar Ev- names in playgrounds but personally I don't know many at all. If being unique and imaginative was very important to us then we would have chosen something different, but picking a name we both loved and agreed on was more important.

And in honesty, people who can't be bothered to use people's given name because their small brains can't cope with the fact that some names sound similar come across as really ignorant. And as for the people saying they work in schools and can't tell the difference between children because they look the same and have similar sounding names are in the wrong line of work 🤦‍♀️

BridieConvert · 13/04/2023 19:03

2 - one aged 3, one aged 15.
Scotland

BoldandBright · 13/04/2023 18:58

East midlands. Personally know 2 but met lots professionally (working in Education).

ApocalypseNowt · 13/04/2023 18:45

Lots. There's at least one in every group I can think of (DC1 friends, DC2 friends, my friends' kids, kids of people at work, NCT kids, etc).

I'm in W Yorkshire

Thefaceofboe · 13/04/2023 18:42

I work in a nursery and we have 4 Evie’s in the baby room right now, a combination of just Evie, Evelyn, Eva etc. It is a lovely name though

Loveyou3000 · 13/04/2023 18:33

South UK. Probably about 5, various ages, one that lives in Canada though.

Koalasparkles · 13/04/2023 18:33

None!! In Yorkshire

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