Honest opinions please - girls names

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Nevaeh

Pronounced nev-ay-uh

Thank you! :)

Not for me, thanks.
Just not my thing.

Also the reverse of heaven is hell !

Awful. Godawful.

And rather passé now too.

I'm not a huge fan but you'll never please everyone with a baby name. If you love it, go for it

Well, it wouldn't be pronounced Ne-vay-uh with that spelling though. It would be pronounced Nev-a-ay, surely? It's daft. Sorry.

I wouldn't. Nevaeh has almost become a byword for 'wacky and tacky name'. People make jokes about it the way they did about Chardonnay ten years ago.

What other names do you like?

Eekk no sorry it's not nice , but then I just like normal run of the mill names

I called my 1 year old son Robert , so for me I just like your more normal names

No. As Mitzy said, it's a joke name these days. Please do not do that to your child.

I'm not keen. I think it has a pleasant sound but I don't like the way it looks written down. Which I suppose is a silly reason when I otherwise think it's pretty but there you go.

Nope.

Noo. Sounds too much like Nivea and I'd have no idea how to say it if you hadn't spelt it out.

No.

Awful. Sorry

Making up a name by spelling a nice word backwards is really tacky.

No, for all the read is given.

Niamh/Nieve/Neve/Neave is nice though. I know girls of each spelling.

No don't do it! This name is considered the ultimate low class tacky name. Honestly move on, how about Neve ?

As others have said, it's now a joke name, one step up from the probable urban myth La--a. To the extent that when I recently met an actual Nevaeh, I was gobsmacked.

As others have said, it's the quintessential tacky name of this decade. People use it to illustrate all that's wrong with baby naming. Plus the spelling makes it hard to pronounce and it sounds like a heap face cream.

If you want a name associated with heaven why not look at one that means heavenly?

No - but Niamh is lovely.

Just don't do it.

Well aren't you a harsh bunch!! But there we go, I had never heard it before so has no connotations to me!

Do you still like the name or have the comments put you off?

So you had never come across the name's whole dubious history as someone's brilliant idea a few years back to spell Heaven backward and thereby give their offspring a Yooneek name, OP?

I tended to think it was a bit of an urban myth until I met my first Nevaeh a couple of months ago, in reception at the local school - the only reason I knew the child's name was that a friend, whose daughter had just started reception and had a September birthday, wanted to invite her to the party on her DD's say-so, but neither her daughter nor any of the other reception parents was entirely sure how to pronounce or spell it.

Apparently it was the 114th most popular girls name in the UK last year. So a fair few of them out there!

It's just vile!!!!!

Well I don't actually recall saying that I did like it in the first place Mitzy, I just asked for opinions on it as I had genuinely never heard it before.

Not sure that I would ever use 'tacky' to describe a name and certainly wouldn't use 'low class' to describe a name - how frightfully snobby and patronizing

Anyway, no Siege - I hadn't heard of it until the day I posted this.

I don't want a name that is ^heavenly* summer months, the name just intrigued me.

fwiw, it's not a name that I would use, it sounds pretty to my ear, just thought I would gather people's thoughts on it.