Ava or Evie

[FunnyMummy2214]

Me and my partner have been going back and forth of what we would call a baby girl if ever we have one,

Can you help us decide ?

Ava

@nuggetschicken

Ava. It's not as popular as it used to be. I really like it.

It's the 4 most popular girl's name in England and Wales

1 OLIVIA
2 AMELIA
3 ISLA
4 AVA
5 MIA
6 IVY
7 LILY
8 ISABELLA
9 ROSIE
10 SOPHIA

Ava can be pronounced two ways.
I assume you mean Ay-va
Not Ahr-va?

One of my work colleagues uses the latter for his daughter, but he is from Iran and I think it's popular there too. I prefer his pronunciation.

*It's the 4 most popular girl's name in England and Wales

1OLIVIA
2AMELIA
3ISLA
4AVA
5MIA
6IVY
7LILY
8ISABELLA
9ROSIE
10SOPHIA*

I stand corrected then. I didn't look at statistics, I work with babies and we haven't had an Ava in about 5 years. 8ish years ago we had loads. That's all 😅 I still really like it and prefer it to Evie.

Bold fail

@nuggetschicken, the figures are for the whole of England and Wales.
Oliver is the top boy's name but is only the most used in one region.

Also the list treats different spellings as different versions, so Sophia and Sofia may appear as not all that popular, but the names sound the same.

It also doesn't take into account that many babies named Eve, Evangeline or Evelyn might be Evie on a day-to-day basis

I wouldn't spent too much time debating as it's likely that if you do fall pregnant with a girl in the future, your tastes will change.

DS has in his class 2 Evas, 2 Avas, an Evie, and an Evelyn, as well as 2 Olivias and a Livi, an Elsie and an Elise. It's pretty confusing having so many similar names.

Based on popularity neither. There are loads of them at school.

Ava if you have to. Evie is 'half a name' to me. I like Evangeline though.

Ava while lovely, is just so trendy now - it will likely date her to a 20/25 year period and Evie as a given name is similar (the popularity of Ava stemmed from a spate of celeb babies (likely named after Ava Gardner) and Evie rose after The Mummy films - both in the late 90's/early 2000's).

Have you considered international Eva or even better classic Eve? You could still use Evie as a nn for either - but I've met Eve's and Eva's of all ages so they feel much more timeless and elegant sounding to me (despite Eva's current popularity in the UK).

I think Evie sounds like a nickname.
Eve and Eva are both lovely.

Evie if I had to, but there are much nicer, less popular names out there!

I love Ava, beautiful name

Ava

It stands out slightly from the Eve/Evie/Eva/Evelyns… only slightly mind you.