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Nevaeh as a girl's name.. Yay or nay?

279 replies

bowsandbangles · 01/07/2021 14:35

I'm currently expecting a DD and my DP likes the name Nevaeh but I think is sounds really tacky and well...made up.
It's Heaven spelt backwards... I work at a nursery and there are 2 babies with that name!
I prefer traditional solid names with meaning and substance behind them, rather than made up sounding ones.
Imagine the poor kids having to spend their lives repeating and explaining their name, having to spelt it out endlessly when people don't "get" it?

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Kokosrieksts · 01/07/2021 18:54

I don’t like the name, but to be fair, even if we all loved the name, you don’t.

StevieNix · 01/07/2021 18:55

It’s not my style but taken out of context the sound of the name is pretty enough- it’s just the whole heaven backwards thing that I find extremely tacky. So yeah I wouldn’t use it

MaMelon · 01/07/2021 18:55

Anal?! Surely that’s a typo…please let that be a typo Grin

Yep, Nevaeh is ykcat. Stand your ground OP - in this case your pregnancy hormones are guiding you down the right path.

MaMelon · 01/07/2021 18:56

Just got the anal thing!

SingingInTheShithouse · 01/07/2021 18:59

I've a cousins whose junior age daughter is named Nevaeh & they are anything but common as muck Confused

It's a lovely name, & nobody thinks of it as heaven backwards, I've only learnt here & now that's where it supposedly comes from. I think as far as real life goes, it's a pretty name, end of.

JemimaMoon · 01/07/2021 19:00

Heaven backwards = hell IMO

PattyPan · 01/07/2021 19:07

@SingingInTheShithouse

I've a cousins whose junior age daughter is named Nevaeh & they are anything but common as muck Confused

It's a lovely name, & nobody thinks of it as heaven backwards, I've only learnt here & now that's where it supposedly comes from. I think as far as real life goes, it's a pretty name, end of.

It's not where it supposedly comes from, it's definitely where it comes from. It hit peak popularity in the USA around the same sort of time as Jayden & variants, 2010ish.
Garraty47 · 01/07/2021 19:09

It's very Teen Mom.

EastWestWhosBest · 01/07/2021 19:11

@CommanderShepard

It's not to my taste but the idea that only some names are "made up" is absolute bollocks and oftentimes thinly veiled racism. Every single name was made up at one point.
How is it racist? Unless you immediately assume that everyone with a made up name, is of a certain race. Everyone I’ve know with a name with creative spelling has been white.
EastWestWhosBest · 01/07/2021 19:12

@Frazzled2207

I think Nevaya is miles better tbh. Still made up but at least loses the heaven spelt backwards thing which is extremely tacky.
But if you go for that spelling then it kind of loses the point. And people will think you have spelt it wrong.
JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 01/07/2021 19:15

It’s the Pauline of our time.

MenopausalMargot · 01/07/2021 19:21

No. It's hideous. Hard to spell and pronounce. If my parents had called me that I'd be submitting a deed poll to change it as soon as possible.

HasaDigaEebowai · 01/07/2021 19:23

Seriously tacky. Why would you call a baby heaven anyway. It either has connotations of death or of inappropriate things

wjg65ka · 01/07/2021 19:25

Nay

GirlAloud · 01/07/2021 19:29

Naveah is rather ‘the opposite of posh’, I’m afraid. If that suits your family, then go ahead. If not, however, you may wish to think twice.

EastWestWhosBest · 01/07/2021 19:30

It’s a bit old hat now isn’t it.

It was popular 10 years ago.

EssentialHummus · 01/07/2021 19:37

Truly awful. Other people have suggested names with a similar sound, and if you want names to do with heaven/angels there are lots of those too if you Google.

GreyhoundG1rl · 01/07/2021 20:15

It's a lovely name, & nobody thinks of it as heaven backwards, I've only learnt here & now that's where it supposedly comes from.
But that's exactly where it comes from. Most people know this.
It's not some wild mass delusion everybody but you and your friends are suffering from...
It really is that tacky.

Datsandcogs · 01/07/2021 20:21

@Ohjustboreoff

Please god No!
This!
plumpuddisnice · 01/07/2021 20:24

It's a nope from me

claralara42 · 01/07/2021 20:25

It's a lovely name, & nobody thinks of it as heaven backwards, I've only learnt here & now that's where it supposedly comes from

Everybody thinks it, other than you. Since that is literally the point of this hideous name.

Kiki275 · 01/07/2021 20:28

@InkieNecro

Not a fan, not just because when I think 'heaven backwards' I think of hell, but I just don't like the sound of it.
Exactly what I think on both points x
Sexnotgender · 01/07/2021 20:28

No no and thrice no. Awful.

KimmyAndMe · 01/07/2021 20:28

Nope. It’s very popular around here. I’ve no idea why. It’s an awful name 😒

inmyslippers · 01/07/2021 20:31

Everybody thinks it, other than you. Since that is literally the point of this hideous name.

^^ I didn't know. Still like it regardless