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GreenAventurine · 21/07/2023 21:21

Violet or Sylvie/Silvie

Which is your favourite and why? 😊
Ive been set on Violet but thought of Silvie today and I love it.
Middle name is Kate

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GreenAventurine · 24/07/2023 18:52

Yes we would spell it Sylvie x

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ImaginingDragonz · 24/07/2023 12:58

Love Sylvie. Don't like your other spelling of it. It sounds ethereal but also classy.

MerryChristmasToYou · 24/07/2023 12:56

Talking of Corrie, I couldn't call a child Ivy

BinkyBeaufort · 24/07/2023 12:53

This is who I think if when I hear Violet

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raquelwelsh · 23/07/2023 18:14

Sylvie sounds like a lovely ethereal name. Like a woodland fairy 🧚‍♂️ Really pretty name!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 23/07/2023 17:02

I prefer Violet but not with Kate. While both lovely names separately Violet Kate sounds very harsh. Silvie Kate just rolls off the tongue.

ZZpop · 23/07/2023 11:24

I like Sylvie. Nice meaning and suits a girl/woman of any age.

LooseInTheCity · 23/07/2023 10:38

Love Sylvia/Sylvie.

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GreenAventurine · 23/07/2023 10:37

Sylvia isn’t an option really. She would be Sylvie, I don’t get saliva from Sylvie but Sylvia I can see.
Ive looked into the meaning behind Sylvie and I love it (of the forest).

Violey is firmly off the table now guys. That’ll teach me from getting personalised stuff 😂😂

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Waferbiscuit · 22/07/2023 21:52

Sorry not Sylvia or Sylvie. We had a girl at school named Sylvia and she was regularly called 'Saliva' and unfortunately that's now all I hear.

Violet is timeless and elegant.

ButtonMoonBlanketSky · 22/07/2023 21:43

Sylvia Kate and call her Sylvie.

sparklelikeadiamond · 22/07/2023 16:49

Violet

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GreenAventurine · 22/07/2023 16:46

The vile and violent comments have put me off Violet even more 😂
All I can hear I’d violent late now. Also, there’s a new girl starting at the school I work at called Violet in september - I feel like it’s cropping uk everywhere.

Sylvie however has grown on me even more. I don’t get old lady- I get whimsical…

I was SO set on Violet. But Sylvie has the edge atm.

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Arewehumanorarewecupboards · 22/07/2023 11:30

I have a Sylvie (mid twenties). It suits her. The comments about her name on here are similar to responses that she/we get in real life.

Violet is pretty too.

MerryChristmasToYou · 22/07/2023 11:25

Violet. I think Sylvia is ugly. Silvie looks like Silkie. Sylvie is dated.

user1492757084 · 22/07/2023 09:02

I prefer Silvie.
Silvie Kate is sweet.

I more so like..
Sabine Kate
Silvine Kate
Sandrine Kate

Summerpeachblossom · 22/07/2023 09:01

I like Violet and prefer it to Sylvie. But I really like Sylvia and prefer it to both.

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GreenAventurine · 22/07/2023 08:27

So tough. Seems to be kind of equal here too!

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Hazelnuttella · 22/07/2023 07:56

I love Sylvie, it’s on my list.

I’ve never managed to get on board with the love for Violet… I can’t look at it without seeing violent. But I know I’m very much in the minority.

ChrisPPancake · 22/07/2023 07:52

I don't like Violet much. I think because it sounds quite harsh?

Sylvia is an old lady name to me but Sylvie is a cool young French actress type.

SavvyMaria · 22/07/2023 07:34

Sylvie is lovely.

Not keen on Violet, just don't really like it and it's very overdone now.

kezziegrey · 22/07/2023 07:33

I really like them both but slightly prefer Violet.

drpet49 · 22/07/2023 07:32

WaltzingWaters · 21/07/2023 21:45

I just see old lady when I hear Sylvie.

Violet is lovely.

Right because Violet isn’t an old lady name either 🙄

Sandysandwich · 22/07/2023 07:24

Violet by a long way.

I do like Sylvia mire than Sylvie, feels more like a whole name

Daffodilwoman · 22/07/2023 06:46

I think violet goes much better with Kate. Sylvie Kate sounds too cutesy to me.