Honest opinion on names please! 🙏

LillyCandC · 2023-06-20T22:01:45+00:00

Please can you tell me what do you think of the following names Wilfred Zachary Evelyn Beatrice

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SpringIntoChaos · 22/06/2023 05:02

The only one I like is Beatrice.

marblemad · 22/06/2023 04:35

Both of your girls names are fantastic as they could both be variated to Bea and Evie, however I am not a huge fan of zachary as it is quite tacky and common and wilfred I relate to boris johnson.

Hollyppp · 21/06/2023 22:04

Wilfred - I prefer Wilbur
Zachary - like just Zack
Evelyn - sweet
Beatrice - I really like

LlynTegid · 21/06/2023 11:26

Like Beatrice, would not consider the others.

PossiblyNotOne · 21/06/2023 11:25

Love Wilfred.

Evelyn is overdone, there are 100s of Evelyn’s and Evie’s.

17caterpillars1mouse · 21/06/2023 10:27

Wilfred - I want to like it and I like Wilf but just find the whole name a bit meh. I feel the same about Walter, love Walt but the whole name just falls flat for me

Zachary - love it, it's on our current long list. I like Zach too but love the sound of the full nane Zachary

Evelyn - its ok, a pretty name. Just a bit done to death at the moment. At least that's how it feels in my area

Beatrice - I like it. Not that keen on the shortening Bea but like Tris. I do prefer Beatrix though, I feel it has more spark

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LillyCandC · 21/06/2023 10:23

Thanks everyone 🙏 I do like Evelyn but not sure about nn… I like Bea as nn

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weirdo123 · 21/06/2023 09:31

I like Evelyn and Wilfred

LulooLemon · 21/06/2023 09:31

Wilfred - I prefer William

Zachary - love

Evelyn - not so keen

Beatrice - love

DuchessOfSausage · 21/06/2023 08:55

Wilfred - ok, will be Wilf
Zachary - popular, will be Zac
Evelyn - can't see any appeal. Eveh-lin, Eevlin or Evlin? Evie overused
Beatrice - fine

PickledScrump · 21/06/2023 08:16

I like Evelyn as Ev-eh-Lyn but not as Eve-Lyn. I think it will just be another Evie though. Beatrice is nice, prefer Beatrix though, absolutely love Bea as a nn, works for a child and an adult. Not so keen on the boy choices. Not a fan of the old man name trend and there’s lots of Zachary’s about

Mumofgirls2017 · 21/06/2023 07:14

Wilfred- like
Zachary- like
Evelyn- ok but not keen on Evie and lots around
Beatrice- not a fan personally. Somehow find a bit frumpy.

user1492757084 · 21/06/2023 05:29

Wilfred and Beatrice are nicer than the others.

Madamecastafiore · 21/06/2023 05:11

I like Wilf & Zach, both classes and non poncy IMO.

Evelyn sounds harsh and will be shortened to Eve/Evie and there are a trillion of them in nursery schools up and down the country, it's interchangeable with all the Ellie's and Ella's too. Just a bit Meh.

Beatrice is lovely, uncommon and love the name Bea as a nickname.

KR2023 · 21/06/2023 04:47

Friend of mine is Evelyn and she pronounces it Ee-flynn

Beatrice is lovely, as is Wilfred

Riverlee · 21/06/2023 03:32

All. Names are nice.

Don’t worry about Boris son being called Wilfred. Tony Blair had a son and named him Leo when I was pregnant, so crossed that off my shortlist. A couple of years down the line, most people couldn’t name Tony Blair’s children.

Judgyjudgy · 21/06/2023 03:20

Only like Zachery, the rest are old people names which I am not a fan of

atthebottomofthehill · 21/06/2023 01:00

I find Wilfred slightly wet.

Love Zachary although please don't shorten it to "zachie" which my friend did and is just too twee for words!

Evelyn is meh. There are a bazillion squillion Evies and Eves and Evelyns around.

Beatrice is nice.

Snugglemonkey · 21/06/2023 00:23

LillyCandC · 20/06/2023 23:49

Thanks everyone! How funny! I never put two and two together with BJs son.. also I never considered that Evelyn can be pronounced 3 different ways. I assumed that Ev-Lyn is boys name and girls is pronounced Ev-er-lyn but I can totally see Eve-lyn now too, doh

I never imagined everlyn at all, but thar us a horrible sound to me.

Snugglemonkey · 21/06/2023 00:22

I prefer Wilfred to Zachery. I think because there is a Zack and a Zach (Zachery) in my sons class, but I don't know a Wilfred.

I think Evelyn would gey list in the Evie type names. Beatrice is lovely.

SleepingStandingUp · 21/06/2023 00:10

Like Zachary, prefer Zachariah
Like Beatrice

Not me on other two, and Evelyn is a pronunciation nightmare

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LillyCandC · 20/06/2023 23:49

Thanks everyone! How funny! I never put two and two together with BJs son.. also I never considered that Evelyn can be pronounced 3 different ways. I assumed that Ev-Lyn is boys name and girls is pronounced Ev-er-lyn but I can totally see Eve-lyn now too, doh

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DramaAlpaca · 20/06/2023 23:22

All perfectly good names. None of them are particularly exciting but that's fine by me. I don't love any of them and I really don't like Wilfred, but they are nice enough.

Evelyn doesn't have just two pronunciations, it has three. In Ireland it's usually pronounced EV-lyn.

If I had to choose I'd pick Zachary or Beatrice.

FortofPud · 20/06/2023 23:12

I like them all a lot. I know a fab little Beatrice who goes by Bea, so I'd probably pick that over Evelyn. Hard to chose between Wilfred and Zachary.

CafeNervosa · 20/06/2023 23:11

I like Zachary and Beatrice… although probably slightly prefer Beatrix.

Wilfred I liked until Boris Johnson used it.

Evelyn is fine but personally I just hear it as two names “eve” “lyn” and it’s multiple spellings might annoy me.