Sylvie or Sylvia?

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Sylvie is one of the names we are now considering however not sure whether to use Sylvia with nn Sylvie...What to you think? Views much appreciated, thanks!

I would say Sylvia with nn Sylvie. Sylvia sounds a bit more 'grown up' and she might appreciate that as an option when she is older.

Sylvia.

More elegant and has a bit more oomph.

Sylvia, for all the reasons others have said above.

I went off Sylvie when someone said that in France it's considered hideously dated in a Mavis kind of way.

I much prefer Sylvie.

Sylvia is as dated as Mavis too

Damn you mabythesea!

Don't try and take Sylvia away from me too.

I like them both. Don't really get giving Sylvia to be known as Sylvie though. Neither sounds like the 'cute for a little one' nn - like calling a Thomas Tommy. Just use the name you want her to be called.

Prefer Sylvia.

Sylvia

Sylvia. Or another name entirely.

Sylvia.

My Mums name is Sylvia, she gets it changed to Sylvie sometimes.

My grandma was Sylvia, she used to get Sylvie or Sylv as a nickname.

Sylvia. My mum's a Sylvia, she sometimes gets Sylvie or Sylv. Lovely name.

I like Sylvia. Sylvie is relatively faddy.

Love Sylvia

Sylvie meh , not feeling it.

Sylvie, Silvia sounds very old-fashioned to me and not in a good way.

I went to school with a Sylvia and her nn was Sylvie. Lovely girl, lovely name.

I prefer Sylvie. It's more pretty and girly.
But why not put Sylvia on her BC and she can decide for herself what she wants to be called.

Sylvia, I prefer an a at the end of names like for instance Sophia not Sophie or Julia not Julie or Diana not Diane. I think perhaps it sounds less harsh to the ear for me.

Sylvia is lovely (Sylvie too. I want to put it on our girls list in honour of Sylvia Pankurst but DH has an awful Auntie Sylvia who he couldn't bear to excessively please.

Sylvia, mythical queen and mother of Romulus and Remus, girl of the woods. Nickname Forrest .

Sylvie....Marceau?

Sylvie (purely cos Sylvia's the name of the tart my dad ran off with when I was young).

I prefer Sylvie.

Like them both. Sylvia is elegant and Sylvie is sweet.

I'd go with Sylvia though because then she can choose between full and nickname. If you call her Sylvie she can't really go by Sylvia instead.