Baby girl names - thoughts please

I work in a school and we have five Oliver’s in a year group of 60. It’s a very popular name. We also have several Oliver’s over different year groups within the school.

5 Olivers in a class of 30? Assuming that’s 15 boys and 15 girls that means that 1/3rd of the boys are called Oliver.

Even at its peak popularity when it was clear number one boy’s name it was still only about 1 in 50 boys who had that name.

That means in a class of 15 boys and 15 girls the probability of having 5 called Oliver/Ollie is around 1 in 100,000.

If that’s what you have then statistically it’s probably the only class of its type in the entire country.

Hazel is lovely! And not massively common so a good option.

I do know loads of Evies - short for evelyn

I teach a million variants of Evelyn.
Couple of Eliza's, it's a classic name written down but not very nice to say to get her attention.
Maeve is very popular
I love Hazel, never taught one in 22 years.

I like Evelyn but never know if it's pronounced Evlyn or Eevlyn

They're all "in" names but that's OK if you're OK with it. Maeve is my favorite of those

Apart from Hazel I think you will either come across duplicate names or very similar sounding names. Which I personally don’t think is a bad thing, but if you’re wanting an unusual name they’re maybe not the correct choice for you

They are all popular for this age group. I don’t think that’s a bad thing; they are all nice (not massively keen on Maeve but that’s just personal taste) but definitely mid 2020 names.

Hazel is one to watch as in some accents it sounds awful (‘ay-zull’) I do like the name though.

If you don’t want a common name I’d steer clear of Evelyn. I work in a primary schools and we have several Evelyn’s and Evie’s.
The others are great though. I like Hazel. No issues with spelling or pronunciation but she will almost certainly be the only Hazel

Evelyn and Eliza are nice. No reason why an Evelyn has to be "Evie", could be "Lyn" or "Lynnie" if you want a diminutive.

Not fond of Maeve or Hazel. I prefer Maude to Maeve.

Hazel is lovely.

A bit witchy/ autumnal/ natural whilst also being pretty.

And I like the Z sound in it.

I agree with @RainySeattle . Name variation tends to be regional.
You could have just one Oliver in a class but 3 Ezras.

I think Hazel is quite timeless and like that best from your list, but the others are ok too.

My godmother is called Hazel and she's absolutely wonderful and totally eccentric even in her 80s! She even went and married a Mr Brown. Out of your choices Hazel and Eliza are my favourite. Dd2 was going to call her first dc Evelyn if it was a girl but she had a boy. She's now expecting a girl and it's too popular now.

None of them are uncommon / all of them are used commonly in the current cohort of under 5s. So no they’re not weird/off putting at all. They’re not 5-in-a-class common but I don’t think they’re as out there as you’re imagining!

Hazel is probably the most "unusual" on your list, but they are all popular names.

They're all really lovely names, I don't think you can go wrong with any of them!

If you go with Evelyn though, there will be several with the same name in her class

Evelyn was my Great Grandma's name. It's beautiful but we had three at the school I worked at last year. Also an Eliza and Maeve. Hazel is a bit bleurgh for me. But it's not a name you hear often. Good Look OP. It's not always easy picking baby names

I see this comment on Mumsnet, but it’s really not true! I currently have 5 Ollies in my Year 11 class, and a whole heap of Isabella variants. And 7 year old’s class is full of Amelia B/Amelia M/Amelia J.

I personally dislike names that are nouns and Hazel to me is a colour and a nut.
Eliza, I think of Doolittle.
Evelyn is pretty and feminine and my favourite is Maeve. It is a popular name in Ireland and is the name of an ancient Celtic Queen and symbolises strength and power.

All lovely names. Evelyn is the most likely to have similar names in her class / year (Eve / Evie / Ava / Ivy etc are very popular). I would pick Eliza or Hazel.

Was a delivery suite midwife for 20 years. Have never once delivered a Hazel. Still work with children, there are no Hazels on my caseload. The other names are gorgeous. Maeve is popular, but I live in NI and the name has deep roots in Irish mythology. Has been in the top 100 names here for as long as I remember. Not sure how popular it is on the mainland. I always liked ‘Margot’ and ‘Blossom’, but they’re rising in popularity too. Good luck with your choices, I loved the baby name discussion when I was pregnant with my own. FYI.. I named one of mine ‘Lauren’ as I rarely came across it in my job. There were 6 other Lauren’s in her year lol 🤷‍♀️

I like them all apart from Evelyn

Snap! She’s 4 and haven’t met another one so far irl.

OP I really like all your names, in DD’s nursery there was a maeve and I know an Eliza and an Evie but no Hazels. I like Hazel and Eliza best.