Avril?

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Nice or naff?

nice. i can see both a pretty girly girl and a tom boy called Avril.

Thank you. I love it but dh says all he hears is Bovril ! I'm not even pregnant yet so just beig nosy as to what the general opinion was! We already have a 4 yr old ds and I think we are sorted on a name should we have another ds but the girl's name is proving harder! Still plenty of time to twist dh's arm discuss it!

nah i dont hear that as ah and bov are really different so even though they both end in ril i dont link them.

Thank you I am going to print this off to show dh!! .

He actually said it's a nice name but was worried other people would make the bovril association too. Hmmm told him I think he's on his own with that one!

Not to my taste really (love April though, quite a different sound which you may or may not like!)

Awful

Ooh I love Avril. Would be on my shortlist but dd1 is an A.

Torn. I was bullied mercilessly by an Avril at school in the 1970s so not disposed to the name - but thinking about it, it is actually quite nice.

I didn't think "Bovril" but "Anvil" crossed my mind.

beautiful

For some reason I don't like, and I don't think it is related to the teeny bopster

Something to do with A Frill maybe. Struggling to exactly describe my aversion to it (and I'm not into pretty flowery names either)

I prefer April too

I hear 'Advil'.

Ha this has reminded me of being a teenager when Avril Lavigne was about, I look a lot like her and being the 'knock off version' earned me the nickname Bovril Latrine

It's an ok name, prefer it outside April though but that's probably just me!

Avril is a great name. Was on our list but baby is due this month and we live in France...

Always makes me thimk of Howards Way but that is because I am getting old!

Aveil does make me think of Bovril mainly because one of my mates called Avril was nicknamed Bov, but if you like it who cares?

I love this name.

Nice.

I've just read a book with an 'Averil' which I quite liked.