What do you think of this name?

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I heard the name Anaveah today (Anna-vay-ah). What do you all think of it, totally unique but I fell in love straight away?

Sorry I don’t like it, to me it sounds a bit common.

My hometown isn't exotic..

Anna-Via or Anne-Ava sound the same but are like, actual real names

I’m actually not going to use it, we have a name, I was just wondering what people thought.

My youngest has a very marmite name so other people’s opinions don’t bother me too much

FWIW, I like it. Sounds very pretty. But your average MN likes basic names. Anything that's not your generic Poppy, Emily, Gracie seems to blow people's minds on here. It's weird.

Awful.
I too thought of the terrible trend of spelling heaven backwards, and would assume the parents had seen that name, not known it was heaven backwards, and added their own little twist.
I would be inwardly rolling my eyes at the parents, feeling sorry for the child, and wondering how was going to attempt to pronounce it.

@Aprilshowersandhail

My hometown isn't exotic..

I was joking...

Sounds like a contraceptive pill.

I think it sounds pretty, but looks and spells awful.

I would find another spelling.

So the point of your post was ?

@TheThingsWeAdmitOnMN

Sorry it sounds like a medicine or medicated cream to me.

ditto

Awful
Possibly even worse than Garyanne

@eatsleepbreastfeedrepeat, shouldn't it be Anavaeh

How about Anede instead, nn Needy?

Just sounds like another made-up name. Lots of vowels, sort of meandering about, too fussy.

Alaveenah
Lilananah
Nevalarah
Evaleerah
Analilla

They're easy to do, bash out a few more!

Totally meaningless.

Oh and yes they all sound a bit like medicinal creams, or contraceptive pills, or cars

Those are the other situations where people try very hard to make up amazing new names that sound so new and fresh

Anevaeh.

I would guess the parents had taken two "real" names (Spanish Ana and Greek Vaia?) and smooshed them together ala Renesmee in the Twilight books - so I think unfortunately that sort of invented name does have a bit of a downmarket image.

However the sound of Anaveah is very pretty, so maybe consider the Scandi Linnea (Li -nay -ah) instead?