How do you pronounce Evelyn?

[Catspaws]

Do you say Eev-lin or evuh-Lin? Or something different to either?

Eva lin

Traditionally, I don't think there's a distinction between the male and the female usage

There categorically is. Eev-lin is male, ev-lin or ev-eh-lin female. I do agree that sadly Evelyn seems to be near extinction as a boys’ name; see also the wonderful Aubrey.

I don't think that is definitive though, Buxbaum. My grandmother 'eev-lin' was definitely female (!) and she was named prior to 1920, in England, and nobody at the time appeared to think it was odd, although she did have some female contemporaries who were 'Ev-lin'.

Agree that the male version is always 'eev=lin' (as in Evelyn Waugh). But the female version can be either pronunciation.

Been looking through a baby book today and under Evelyn it says about Eve-Lyn being the masculine pronounciation and Ev-uh-Lyn being feminine and linking it with the French Aveline. But yes, it certainly can be pronounced either way for a girl but I wouldn’t go for the masculine pronunciation for this reason.

I'd say ev-er-lin but both ways are technically right. It's up to you which you choose.

My MIL was an Evelyn and she always insisted on it being pronounced as Ev-lyn

The only one I know pronounces it Ev-lyn.

My DD is Evelyn and pronounced Ev-eh-lin

If you do a search, you'll get hundreds of answers, because this has been asked 5 or 6 times over the last few months.

For me it's Ev-uh-lin. But it's just one of those names that if somebody says it's pronounced the other way, you just say ok, and change the way you say it to them from then on. No big deal.

Ev linn

I would say Eve-Lin, but a friend of mine had grandmothers both of which had this name, and one was Eve-Lin and the other was Evva-Lin. You can choose which pronunciation you like, I guess.

I prefer the eev-lin pronunciation of Evelyn. But I know a baby ev-lin. I don’t like that pronunciation (obvs I never say that in RL).

I’ve never heard of the Ever-lin pronouncing style but I still prefer that to Evvv-lin. It just makes a pretty name sound meh.

Ev eh lin

I have friends who pronounce it both ways. I love the name but it put me off the name when I was deciding for my DD because I've heard it being corrected a lot.

Oh, the boy/girl thing would make sense. I always say eve-lyn because the first person I knew with that name was a nun at my school. But all the nuns had boys' names (I don't know why).

And it's funny, people say 'eev-lin' is the masculine form, but to me it sounds softer and very feminine. Also the connection to 'Eve'.

I think it's probably a long time since a boy was named 'Evelyn' .

Eve-lyn.

I think it’s a beautiful name in the masculine form and would definitely have used it but one of my close friends used it for her dd (pronounced Ever-Lyn) so I cant!

I know two who pronounce their names
Ev-lin

But I love the Irish version Eibhlín pronounced Ev-leen

Ever. Lyn

Agree with iismum our girl is Evelyn pronounced Eev-lin she is British.

Other pronounciations are fine just not for us / her!