Avonlea?

[hannahfaith]

Might just be my hormones but I recently have been obsessed with the possibility of having a little girl named Avonlea.
It's a fictional literary place name from Anne of Green Gables but it sounds like it would fit so well with all of the other vowel girls names with v sounds ( i.e. Olivia, Ava, Evie)
DH said he'd consider it if we could find a cute middle name for it so send some suggestions. We both prefer short middle names as our last name is quite long.

It’s your hormones op.
To me it sounds like a new build estate outside Bristol that’s trying to sound like it’s both rural and long established.

Persis

It's such a mouthful,don't do it!

Yes, @DameSylvieKrin, Persis. Though doesn’t gorgeous Persis spend years married to a man with brain damage who turned out not to be her husband, but a lookalike?

Maybe Cordelia is safer. Or Anne.

I see Cordelia isn't the original thought I imagined it to be!

Honestly, I prefer Shirley to Avonlea. Sorry.

I actually met a little girl called Avonlea in the States. She seemed to like her name!

For everyone saying it sounds like a dairy company or the name of a house, I live in the United States. There is no dairy brand called Dairylea here nor do we name our houses.

Besides that thank you for your feedback. We have also considered it as a middle name if we can find a short first name we like

I like Cordelia (and have since I was young) but DH doesn't like it

No forget it. Terrible idea.

Aldi knock off brand

@Canapes Nope, you’re thinking of Leslie Moore. She calls her daughter Persis after Persis Leigh, her second husband’s grandmother (?).

I’m not a huge fan of Avonlea but go for it. I named my youngest Marilla and almost nobody linkis it to Anne of Green gables as it seems hardly anybody has read the book.

Avonlea Margaret
Avonlea Elizabeth
Avonlea Charlotte

I’d go for something very traditional as a middle name to balance out Avonlea.

Marilla is lovely!

Avonlea with any middle name sounds like a pedigree name for cats.

It's also a clothbound cheddar made in Prince Edward Island.

The US is a very big place and that sort of association wouldn't strike the vast majority. The Anne of Green Gables reference would be picked up by most women from an educated home, and imo it's very charming.

The only issue I would see with it in the US is that it might sound a bit like the word heavenly, which is a bit stripperish.

It’s the name of our local care home sorry

I think it's awful, sorry op :-(

Avianna
Avalie
Avery
Avonlea just doesnt look or sound right..

It’s a place name not a baby name

No sorry op. Poor baby if you did!

Anne with an e yes
Diana
Marilla
Cordelia

All yes!!

I'd love to see a baby Marilla for a change!

Avonlea---adding my name to the chorus of NOs. It manages to be weird and boring at the same time (weird because it sounds like a non-dairy sandwich spread, boring because it also sounds like just another Ava/Eva/Everly/Evelyn/Avelon/Avery/Ayla variation)

If you wanted to you could use Ava or Leah (to get similar sounds)

I love the booms so much that I quite like it and if you are in the US then it’s not a name that will be hugely unusual.
LMM had some fabulous names for girls though! Emily, Valancy, Sophy, Joyce

*books

It really is the name you would give a bungalow.

Though doesn’t gorgeous Persis spend years married to a man with brain damage who turned out not to be her husband, but a lookalike?

No, you’re thinking of Leslie, Persis’s mum.