Girls names (opinions please!)

[stellarfox]

What do you think of these names:

Evelina
Celeste
Mabel

I quite like Evelina - how do you pronounce it - ever-leena? Could be Eve or Evie for short. It's unusual and there's a famous old novel called Evelina, which apparently inspired Jane Austen.

Celeste is lovely, with a lovely meaning of course.

Mabel is still too old ladyish for me.

I love Evelina but it gives me the rage that it might be pronounced with and r in it! Where would you get Ever-leena from? It is Ehv-a-leena surely?

Where would you get Ever-leena from?

Non-rhotic accent

It is Ehv-a-leena surely?

Rhotic accent

I like Celeste. Grown up and quite elegant.

Evelina is okay but a bit fussy.

I really dislike Mabel. A lot.

Celeste is gorgeous. I'd love to use it myself but it isn't right with the last name.

Celeste is very pretty. Vetoed by my infuriating DH.

If Evelina would be shortened to Evie or whatever doesn't that make calling her Evelina a bit pointless? Millions of Evies / Eva / Eves.

Celeste is the nicest name, but it is the name of a very recent video game..... and also makes me think of Marie Celeste.

Mabel is ugly.

Names a bit like Celeste to explore might be Celia, Cecilly, Cecilia, Seline, Selina, Serena, Cresida, Estelle, Celestia.

Thanks all! I would say Ev-ah-leena but ever-leena sounds pretty much the same to me at the normal speed you would say it, but yes it might depend on accents.

Probably wouldn’t use Evie! I don’t hate it but I’m not too keen. I think Ev would be cute or possibly Eva

@apolloanddaphne ffs what a surprise, someone else who doesn't realise that that is just another way of spelling the same thing in lots of accents.

Prefer Celeste out of them all

I love Mabel

Like Mabel, other two sound pretentious (or would round here)

I like Mabel best,

Celeste is lovely. Not keen on Evelina or Mabel.

Evelina - Ever Leaner. No
Celeste - Marie. No
Mabel - Maybe.

Celeste is gorgeous.

Mabel is terrible. Why is this dowdy name making a comeback?

Evelina is famously a children's hospital. I don't like Mabel at all - it's a really clunky name. Celeste is best out of your options - but I'm not wildly keen.

I really like Mabel!

I really like Celeste, Evelina is OK, and I can't stand Mabel.

Celeste is very nice.

Evelina is OK and I loathe Mabel, so old fashioned and frumpy.

Evelina is a bit of a tragic figure in Dubliners (James Joyce) to me (IIRC).

Celeste's nice.

Not keen on Mabel.

I stand corrected (ish), it's Eveline.

Celeste is by far the stand out name

Evelina is my favourite

Celestine is my favorite name for a girl so I vote Celeste. I don't know if I would pick a name until i saw the kid though. I mean its probably like with pets, sometimes you meet them and you just know the right name for them. Let's just hope she isn't a Patch lol.