Evadne

[ZebraKid71]

Thoughts?

The nn Evie puts me off, but I really like this and like Evvie as opposed to Evie as a shortening. Is Evie/Eva inevitable?

I also like Ariadne but dd1 has a name starting with A and want to avoid same initials.

Thanks all!

Evadne was top of my baby name list 25 years ago but I had boys.
Love it and I've met a couple of woman named it since.

I've a feeling Evadne's nickname might have been Evvy. Can anyone remember?

Yes!

What's the chalet girls and hinge thing? I have never heard of either.. I've asked a few friends and none of them have, is it a well known negative association that I'm completely out of the loop on?

Really? Google Hinge and Bracket and see what comes up.

Apile yes, her NN was Evvy.

OP - Chalet School is a girls school story series set initially in Austria in the early 1930s. Evadne Lannis was one of the characters - American, daughter of a millionaire.

The Chalet School remains the only place I've come across the name Evadne. I'm trying to remember more names, you might like them, OP.

Simone
Frieda
Margaret
Josephine
Eustacia
Lavender
Carola
Helena
Constance (I think)

Thekla von Stift the quasi-Nazi, the Robin, who was really called Marya Cecilia (and whom I wanted to murder), Eustacia, Mary-Lou, Viola, Elisaveta, Lavender, Bride, Ruhannah (Ruey), Richenda (Rikki), Madge.

Not to mention girls called Tom, Jack and Dickie (who was called Delicia, I think?)

I love it, it’s a gorgeous name.

I have literally no idea what the Hinge & Bracket thing is

I have no idea what Chalet or Hinge and Bracket are either?

Nice name and Evvy would be the go to diminutive I would use/think of. If you call her Evvy people will take your lead.

Makes me think of hinge and bracket too!! It's awful clunky sounding and old fashioned without any retro / granny cute appeal.

Hinge and Bracket

Love it

Loveday is the Chalet School name that intrigues me the most ... It just conjures up such an other, distant world. Guess it would be unusable now ...

Evadne is rather fine - but grand. She’d need a lot of acres and a huge Fifth Ave apartment.

Sorry, I'm another old gimmer who instantly thought Hinge and Bracket. However that really isn't a problem in 2019!!

But that aside, I find it a rather clumsy sounding name I'm afraid.

I've never heard of hinge and bracket either op!

I thought it was a typo sorry

My autocorrect changes it to Evader, which would be tedious and is a sign of just how rare it is. Whereas Clytemnestra, to use a pretty rare example, autocompleted.

I've always loved this name.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinge_and_Bracket
Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were a very successful mainstream drag act of the 1970s and 1980s. Few women of childbearing age will remember them now, but you’d get a lot of “oh, like Hinge and Bracket?” from grandparents and great aunts.

I have a few family members with the name Evadney. (My Mums side is from Georgia, USA). I like it. It get shortened to Eva.

This led me down a happy path of fond remembrance, and some googling.

Tragically, Dame Evadne died in the early noughties, Her dear friend Dr Hilda has retired to rural France and runs a rather lovely looking B and B, just as one might expect. I imagine there is the odd musical soirée available for the more discerning guest.

How anyone can be ignorant of the dear ladies AND chalet school makes me feel very sad.

And old.

But no. For Christ's sake do not call your child Evadne.

I never realised Hinge and Bracket were blokes! Granted they were before my time but as PP says I remember my Dad referring to them.

I love it!

I normally hook up my judge pants at some 'out there' names, but Evadne(y) is both a great, but also real name