How many Evies do you know?!

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So grateful for all the responses on my previous thread.
To further this - and hopefully help to narrow things down further for us - I wanted to ask specifically how any Evies do you know? If you’re happy to share your region (north, south etc) that would be great.
Thanks so much to those who already answered this as part of my previous thread!

Thanks in advance!

I know of one - my mum's neighbour's 4 year old grandchild. It seems more like a nickname to me than a name. I prefer Eve. But then people might assume I was religious, which I'm not.

A couple.

2 - West Midlands

5, north west. All are late teens

7
Age range 12-2

1 toddler.
1 late teens Eve who gets Evie.

7
4 from an extra curricular activity and 3 in DCs classes. All aged from 2 - 10.

So many that I can’t even give you a number. Then there’s countless Evas, Eves and Avas and all four names mould into one. Evie was such a pretty, fresh sounding name about 15-20 years ago but now it’s so overused that it sounds very ‘nothing’.

More than I can count. It’s most the popular name at my daughters school.

Also soooo many varieties.

What difference does the region make….?

I’m in a whole ‘nother country, and it’s an over-used name here, too.

It’s a very of-the-moment name, and will sound very dated to the next generation - in the way Karen, Jennifer, Joanne, Nicola, etc, etc, sound dated now.

I don't know any. My mother used to talk about a couple of 'Evies' but their proper names were Evelyn. I think someone called 'Eve' might be called Evie.

Eve, Eva, Ava, Evelyn, Evie are all just the same variation on the same thing with parents desparately clinging to the idea that the difference will make their child less cloned. Best attempt at variation has to go to Eevee though.

One - my own. She is fourteen. I do notice a lot of Evie's in the secondary school newsletter. I have never in twelve years in this area taught one. We are south east.

My daughter, 12, is called Eva and is known as Evie. S Wales.

2 adults, and about 30 children, but I do work in maternity, so I encounter more babies/children than the average person! :) I'm in the SE.

We went with a name that wasn't in the top 100 when we had DS. There were 6 at his nursery, and the year after it shot into the top 40 and has been there ever since so there are bloody hundreds with the same name. There's no guarantee. Why don't you wait and see what she looks like, and take it from there? We had a top 3 and just waited until he arrived to pick.

Looooads in my eldest's class (year 7) it was the name of the time, I haven't heard many being named it recently as I assume it's had it's day from being so over used.

@ElizabethBest thank you for the insight. Yes, you are totally right about there being no guarantees. It would be Sod’s Law we’d pick the other name and it would suddenly rocket up the charts! Just a case of deciding which we actually prefer, popularity aside.

I know a lot of people are of the opinion that the name Evie/Evelyn/Eve etc will date badly, but I’m not sure how they are predicting this. Of the names of my generation, some seem very dated now and others (like mine) are still in the top 20. Not sure how anyone would have predicted this when they were naming their babies 30 years ago.

you can only go with what feels right to you. My DS is the only one at his whole school with his name now, even though there were 5 others at his nursery. And names are cyclical - even the unlikely ones will come back round eventually. OK, maybe not Karen. But the others will!

1 in North West aged 9/10

I don't think they will date badly. Even when you look at names like Gary, Simon, Kevin etc, you'd only laugh at a baby being called that, if they're 40 year old blokes you wouldn't bat an eyelid! Evie is like Sarah or Louise in the 90s, the biggest "risk" is it will feel a bit bland as it's so common (I say that as someone who used a popular name with no regrets, I liked it and still do)

There are very, very few genuinely timeless names, and even they can be boring really.

@ElizabethBest completely agree! Thank you so much. Just need to decide now which we prefer :)

1 north west England

I know a few kids.

My daughter is really jealous of her friends who is named Evie.

As that is the name of her favourite pokemon- eevee.

She wishes she was named after a pokemon, and is an eevee expert.

West Yorkshire, dozens of them! And Ava’s.

Ranging from mid-20’s to newborns, it’s insanely popular here.