OK-my last attempt to offer a “new” baby name did not go down well, but I’m sure you’ll like this one....

[BertrandRussell]

..Ds’s mates are round for band practice- and the new drummer is..Ivo.

There you go. Simple, classic, easy to say and spell. You can thank me later.

The Ivo I know is Eevo, but some say it as Eye-vo.

I quite like Ivo.

Ivo’s gone home now, after coming to find me to say thank you and shake hands. My heart!

I love Ivo Graham! He's made me love the name 😀

Very Etonian. And Norman, iirc - seem to think it was popular amongst William the Bastard's knights.

Not easy to pronounce, I’d say it ee vo but some would say eye vo.

It would be Ifor in welsh. My Grandad’s name. I quite like Ivo, feels similar to Asa which I also really like. Short male names are my favourite it seems.

I knoww a Portuguese man called Ivo (pretty sure he pronounced it ee'voh).

I know of an Ivo (pronounced Eye-vo) and I've always thought it's a great name.

It was on my long list for DS but ruled out because it doesn't work brilliantly in DH's language and DH didn't like it.

I expect it's pronounced Ee-vo in all the Romance languages. It is in French.

Yes, it’s pronounced ee-vo in Portuguese. I had a maths teacher called Iva once... ~ misses the point of the thread ~

Yes I like Ivo but I'd wonder if I'd sound a bit wannabe posh if I was hollering it (in an evah so refined manner) across the park.

DS has a Polish friend called Ivo, (pronounced ee-vo) so I'd assumed it was Polish.

I kept spotting these teenage twin boys who looked familiar to me in my neighbourhood, but I couldn't place them. Clicked one day that they were Alex and Ivo from Child of Our Time.

Looks like they forgot the R in Ivor

I have met a little “ee-vo” but I like it best as “eye-vo”

I like it but first assumption would be an Australian Ivor.

I know one, but he's German. And I've definitely seen it in mediaeval-set novels and so on. I think it's cool.

I have an ancestor called Ivo Francisco Something Taco, such a perfect name.

Not sure it’s new. The name of dd2 arch rival at school both 10

It’s definitely not new! ‘My’ Ivo was born around 1700.

The salesman in our local bathroom/ kitchen shop is called Ivo.

I think the 'new' indicates that the OP knows it's not new. She means a new one for her to suggest. I think the last 'new' name she suggested was Geoffrey, or something equally Rover driving Dad.

Oh! “New”, I see!

I just think ‘they’ve forgotten the R’. What wrong with Ivor?