Which do you prefer?

[Lovinglife2016]

We have only three weeks left until we have our first little girl. We decided on the first name quite early but have struggled to decide on a middle name that we love. Our shortlist is:

Eva Lily
Eva Grace
Eva Belle
Eva Mae

Which name do you prefer? All thoughts, both positive and negative are very welcome!

Thanks xx

Erm. I like Eva. I don't know if this would bother you but all those combos are SO common now.

How about a different middle name?

I prefer Eva Grace

I agree with WellErr, Eva is a lovely name but I really don't like the middle names especially Mae . They're all massively common at the minute.

I don't love any of them sorry though they definitely aren't horrible. I really like Eva and I like some of your middle names too. It's just the combination of Eva with the middle names which I'm not terribly keen on if that makes sense.

Are the middle names family names at all or just names you like the sound of? If it's the latter then would a different choice of middle name work? If it's the former, then my favourite would be Eva Grace.

Eva Grace is an absolutely beautiful name.

Eva Grace or Eva Mae flow the best but I would choose Grace personally as Mae has become a filler middle name recently imo.

No the names are not family connected, they were simply names that we picked that we liked but I think as many of you have mentioned it is the popularity of the names at the mo that is making me hesitate and is why I'm struggling to choose a name.

I just haven't found any other names that I love with Eva so suggestions are very welcome xx

Ooh they're all beautiful! They are popular at the minute but my dds middle name is grace (well one is she has 2 middle names) I know it's very popular but it was for family so I went with it anyway. Eva grace is lovely X

Eva Victoria
Eva Mary
Eva Caroline
Eva Elizabeth
Eva Frances

I suggest
Eva Marie
Eva Rae
Eva Raine

Eva Seren
Eva Rebecca
Eva Joy
Eva Violet
Eva Faith
Eva Tabitha

I quite like Eva Faith, but still don't love it. Seren is nice also, I haven't heard that name before!

Eva Grace is my favourite there.

Some names are popular simply because they are really nice names!

How are you pronouncing Eva? 'Eve-ah' or 'ay-va'?

Personally I think Ava is a slightly nicer name

The middle names are very overused

Eva Estelle
Eva leonore
Eva Quinn
Eva Liliana
Eva Lilian

Seren means star in Welsh which I think is a lovely meaning.

Eva June

Pidlan's suggestion of Eva June is beautiful, especially as she is very likely to be born in the month. And if she's super late, Eva July works too!

Eva Grace. Any names beginning with L after Eva could sound like Ev-al. (Evil).
Or perhaps I over think things.

Oh yeah I hadn't thought of that but Eva Lily could sound a little bit like Evil Lily.

Eva Jayne
Eva Beth
Eva Ruth
My favourite of yours is Eva Grace

Eva Rose

It will be pronounced ee-va as my friends little girl is Ava-Rose

I hadn't thought about the L sound after Eva!! It does not sound good so I think Lily may be off the list lol!

Thank you for all the lovely suggestions, I am still struggling to find one that I love yet 😕

If you don't love any then just don't have a middle name. Personally I think that's a lot better than a 'filler' name. Or do you have a family member or friend or even a midwife or someone whose name you'd like to use? My friend used the name of the MW who delivered her DD as a middle name. I thought that was lovely.