Anya or Verity?

[Africa2004]

Please help. We’re tied on our final two baby girl names & have 3 days until she’s registered. Which do you prefer?

Really really dislike Anya, probably because the one I knew was awful. I love Verity, such a gorgeous name

Although I don't mind Verity, I think Anya is just so beautiful and stylish, so Anya for me.

@saffkey1, I have a 10 year old Verity, also called Vee..

Great choice @BradleyPooper

Definitely Anya, it’s beautiful. Congratulations OP

Anya is Russian for Anna, is it not? I wanted it for my DD but I had a vile family member called Anna so I just couldn’t!

Africa2004 so basically, we haven't helped at all! It sounds like your surname would go fine with either name, so perhaps it will depend on whether you are concerned about the "ferrety" link that pp have mentioned. Have you developed a preference since your OP?

Haha, you have helped as I can see both are well liked names (even if people tend not to like both).
I’m not at all concerned about the ferrety link, I actually think it’s kind of cute & not the worst link a name can have!
I’m more in the Anya camp tbh (but slightly put off that two people asked me yesterday if it would be pronounced Arn-ya??) But OH prefers Verity, think we’ll make a snap decision in registry office😳

Anya!

Definitely Anya

Anya, I’ve never met a nice Verity

Love both

Where are people getting Anya pronounced with an r in it? How weird. Anya is lovely and so is Verity.

ApolloandDaphne Americans tend to pronounce Anna as Arrna, so can only assume they do the same thing with Anya. If there was a significant chance of that happening, it would probably nudge me away from choosing that name personally.

Anya. I find Verity a bit too virtue-name and it sounds like Ferrety .

I have an 11 yr old niece called Verity, Vee for short. I thinks it's a lovely name.