Aoife

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Do you think Aoife blends in too much with all the Eva's and Ava's about? Obviously the spelling makes it stand out but is the pronunciation too similar? My daughter has a traditional irish name and looking for another.

I think Aoife is a beautiful name but I would expect some people will struggle with the spelling. That wouldn’t be enough to put me off though. If you love the name go for it!

How do you pronounce it ?

Eefer or eefa

"eefa"

No it's a different name

It won't blend in but she'll spend the rest of her life spelling it for people all the time. I'm friends with an Aoife

Op, my DD is 7. There are 2 Ava's, an Eva and an Aoife in her class, that's 4 of 12 girls with virtually the same name. It is a nice one though.

I know one and she constantly gets called Eva. People unfamiliar tend to miss hear.

The pronounciation sounds fine but I have to physically stop myself from calling my friends DD ay-oh-eef.

That's probably just me but though!

I knew one at a previous job. It's sort of "eee-fa" isn't it?

Certainly not like the Evas and Avas, but unless you are Irish I'd probably be a bit as to why you chose it. Mainly due to the lifetime of having to tell people how to say it.

Gorgeous name. Go for it.

She won't spend her life explaining it. Trust me I know.

I know a few Aoifes, two adult and one newborn but all have Irish heritage. It is very similar to Eva in sound but probably wouldn't get the even more common Evie.

EE -fah is how it is pronounced.

I know an Aoife and it's a lovely name, but spelling it and explaining it her whole life is very irritating to her.

Compared to lots of Irish names the spelling isn't too bad. It's only 5 letters. Go for it.

Love it and don't think it blends in with Evas and Avas. A front runner for us if current bump is a girl.

The spelling doesn't bother me. I have a Saoirse. After you explain it once people generally get it. I'm more worried about it sounding too much like Eva and Ava. I'd pronounce it eefa.

I'd love another girl just so I could call her Saoirse, beautiful name and meaning.

Eva and Aoife do have a similar sound. It depends where you live, if in Ireland it won't blend in but I can understand your concern if say living in England as on only hearing the name and not seeing the spelling people could pick it up as Eva, as the ear would probably default to Eva as that is what they are used to hearing. Sorry I don't know if I'm explaining myself properly.

No, that makes sense eight days. I'm just stumped. I love the name Saoirse so much and want a name I love just as much. It's proving to be very difficult. I love Imogen but I think it's quite popular. We are in Scotland so I'll need to look up our name statistics and see.

There's loads of Aoife's now, I doubt she'd need to explain it.

I don't want a popular name either!

How about Caoimhe? Was a favourite of mine but went with something more welsh and easier to spell. Plus I also had a Caelan and wanted different initials.

I have an Aoife she is 14 Yes people struggle with the name if they dont know how to say it. However once they have been told they usually are just fine with it.

She likes having a name not everyone can spell or say.

lovely name and should be OK with the spelling

Saoirse - how do you pronounce this?