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Baby girl names - thoughts please

108 replies

Tailored20 · 15/10/2025 17:25

My name is very common for my age group, in my school year there were five of us with the same name. I don't really want this for my daughter. She's due in 3 weeks and we are stuck on a name!
Our list changes quite often but these are the names we're considering:
Evelyn
Eliza
Maeve
Hazel
We both like them and they all sound good with our surname, I'm just not sure if any are off-putting. Any thoughts please?

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Dee51121 · 15/10/2025 19:22

They are all within the top 100 girls names in England and Wales last year, but that doesn't mean there would be 5 of the same name in a school year. Hazel is the most uncommon, based on last year's data, out of the four of them. I work with a Hazel, only one I've ever met out in the wild, I think it's a great name

DuchessOfNarcissex · 15/10/2025 18:54

Evelyn will be Evie and they are everywhere.
Don't like Maeve at all - the spelling or the sound
Hazel is OK - inoffensive.
Not keen on Eliza, but it's OK. I get 'proper little madam' vibes from it.

Maybe it's regional, but I don't know many Gemmas (3). I know countless Clares and Claires, and everywhere I've worked has had several Sues (plus the occasional Soo or Su, or Susan or Suzanne).

bridgetreilly · 15/10/2025 18:01

The age of having four other kids with the same name in your class is long gone. Your choices are all fine. I don’t really understand what you mean by off-putting here?

Pemba · 15/10/2025 17:51

I really like Eliza! Don't like Maeve at all really, but maybe that's because it's mixed up with Mavis in my head, which sounds old ladyish to me. (yes I know they're different names with different origins, but they sound so similar).

soundsofthesixties · 15/10/2025 17:46

We have a Louisa and she has been the only one in the school from 3-16.

Onyoupop · 15/10/2025 17:44

I would say Maeve is most popular on that list, I'm seeing it everywhere at the moment.

LittleGreenDuck · 15/10/2025 17:40

All lovely names. I'd say they have all recently become quite popular names, with the exception of Evelyn which has been popular for a while. Doesn't mean there will be loads in the class, but it might mean it's possible to guess her age fairly accurately in the future. Kind of like Gemmas were probably born in the 80s, Claires in the 70s and Susans in the 60s.

rainbowstardrops · 15/10/2025 17:31

I’m not too keen on Hazel but the others are ok