How would you pronounce Eveline?

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Researching my family tree and came across this name. I like it as ever-line but wonder whether people read it as that or eve-lyn, ever-lyn.

Thanks

Ever-line

Or perhaps ever-lean

I read it as Ever-leen, to rhyme with Emmeline.

My friend's dd pronounces it Eva-leena, but I suspect in olden times it would have been Eve-lyn.

Ev-e-Lin

There's no r!

Ev - ah - lin

My cousins wife pronounces it Ever-lin (it's her name) but everybody calls her Evvy so that nobody says it wrong!

Ever-leen.

Can see people saying Evil-lyne (to rhyme with Tyne) too.

I'd pronounce it Ev-a-leen

I only knew one, she was eh-veh-line rhymes with sign.

I'd say Ev-eh-line. I've no idea though!

Ev-a-lin.
Like Josh Ritter sings it in The Right Time.

Ev-a-leen to rhyme with Emmeline. V pretty! Really like actually, like a less frilly Evangeline, and more acceptable to me than Everly, which I also like. May add it to my list!

With my accent?

Evlyn (Ev said like Hev)

The only one I have ever known (my GM) had it pronounced 'Ev-Lin'.

She used to get very shirty when doctors, care assistants etc. all called her 'Eve-Lin' - which happened almost every time she met someone new. They never said it that way twice though :D

My grandmother (born 1909) was named Eveline by her parents, pronounced 'eve-lyn'. When she grew up, she changed the spelling to 'Evelyn' (maybe it was more fashionable at the time).

Ever- line

I'd say Ev-eh-line

Ev-uh-leen. She was the protagonist of a short story of the same name in James Joyce's 'The Dubliners'.

Ev-uh-lin

I know of two - one pronounced Ev - uh - leen, to rhyme with Emmeline, and the other pronounced Eev - lyn, as Evelyn usually is.

If the relative is well in the past, there's only two ways I can think of that you could find out how the individual / family pronounced it.

1. Find a living relative who know the individual or had heard the name pronounced - "Oh, you mean Great Aunt Ev - uh -leen / Eev - lyn" (unless of course she went by "Great Aunt Eevie" or similar).
2. Find a clue in a record written by someone outside the family (e.g. Census taker) who wrote down what they heard rather than noting the name from a written source.

Ev-uh-leen.