Genevieve

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What are your first thoughts when you hear this name? We have decided on it (I think) for our baby girl, but now the more I say it I’m becoming unsure and don’t know whether to go for a ‘safer’ name.

I love it! I’d love to meet a baby Genevieve. Makes a nice change from the usual Amelias, Lilys, Evies etc

We have a lot of Genevieves in my school. Multiple in a couple of classes. Not sure why, I'd never have thought of it as a popular name.

The Genevieves usually go by Ginny/Evie/Jenny etc so easy to differentiate.

We have a lot of Genevieves in my school. Multiple in a couple of classes. Not sure why, I'd never have thought of it as a popular name.

That’s interesting @SionnachRua. I’ve never met a Genevieve before! I’d like to try and not shorten it but I know it just happens sometimes

I’ve had another DD she would have been Genevieve - lovely name 🙂

*If I’d had.

If you’re not thinking of shortening it though you might have a bit of a headache with other people. My DD has a name with an “obvious” abbreviation and almost everyone (except family) automatically uses it, which she hates.

My first thoughts when i read it are always " which way is it pronounced" as ive heard both Jenna-veeve and Jon-vee-ev.

I prefer the first way, but i think the second way is more correct

I have a Genevieve, she goes by Genie.

@Branleuse Jenna-Veev

@ditavonteesed I love Genie but when I said to my partner he said it doesn’t sound like a natural shortening of Genevieve, so feel like we’d have to push for it. Such a cute nn though!

Works much better with the French pronunciation.

In English I prefer Guinevere.

It's lovely

She started as genie because she was a tiny baby and Genevieve seemed to big for her, it just stuck.

The typical dim is Genny as genie is pronounced differently.

Love it! I'd choose it but my DH has vetoed it.

I went to school with a Genevieve who went by Gen/Jen but I've never known another.

It’s a very pretty name - but in case it makes a difference at all

The only one I know found it very hard to write for a very long time. Obviously long names are always going to do that, but she really did find it frustrating.

I have one, love it. Geni (pronounced Jenny) as a short is the one she prefers.

Not heard of it much, but think it is beautiful 😍

I like it but couldn't imagine myself using it but if I met someone else with a baby Genevieve I would think it was different and lovely.

I really like it. Don’t think it’s that unusual. I do think you would have to be happy with Gen/Jenny as a short form though - also Evie, and there are A LOT of Evies.
Gwendoline nn Gwen or Gwyneth could be alternatives

I love it as a name.

I think of the film. Genevieve is a vintage car

I think it's lovely and with Madeleine and Imogen it was on our shortlist for dd. Except our surname has *** letters and it would have been cruel.

So we went with an Anna/Eliza genre name.

It's lovely, very sophisticated.

Pretty if pronounced the french way but clumsy sounding in an english accent. Prefer Jennifer.

Definitely won’t be pronounced the french way, we are way to common and English to pull that off