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How many Evies do you know?!

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pancakesandpepsi · 13/04/2023 08:23

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!

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tatteddear · 13/04/2023 17:23

Sorry, Home Counties

RightOnTheEdge · 13/04/2023 17:27

I know two. I live in North Yorkshire.

drpet49 · 13/04/2023 17:29

None

Snugglemonkey · 13/04/2023 17:29

I do not know any. Scotland

Fandabedodgy · 13/04/2023 17:31

None - east Scotland

hufflepuffbutrequestinggriffindor · 13/04/2023 17:34

Central Scotland - I teach a couple of Evie's (albeit one is Evelyn) in high school. Don't know of any others young or old.

Mrsdht · 13/04/2023 17:34

Workfriends daughter in ne England aged 11 called Evie. Middle name Honey.
I have a 19yo daughter named Eve. We know no others And she hates it when people call her Evie lol.

flutterbyebaby · 13/04/2023 17:36

Five, seven if you count the pokemon character and my cat who was named after said pokemon

FrauleinElsaMars · 13/04/2023 17:40

2 kids (but one spelt Yvie) and one dog.

Very cute name

FrauleinElsaMars · 13/04/2023 17:40

Oh and that's in West of Scotland

mossystone · 13/04/2023 17:41

At least 6. Reminds me of Lily, Ava and Ruby. All beautiful names but just very common and unimaginative.

CoffeeChocolateWine · 13/04/2023 17:44

@RedToothBrush, well no. It's not the same name. Similar but not the same. I would know, I named her. And if you called my DD Evie, she would correct you and say it's not her name, and again, she would know as it's her name.

And imo, and others here it would seem, it doesn't have the same vibe. Evie, to me, is a cutsie name that suits a small child but not really beyond that; Eva is a timeless, elegant name that suits all ages. One I love; one I don't. Ava is also very similar but I really dislike it.

There are lots of names that sound very similar but have a different vibe. But a child becomes their name and their name becomes the child's. You see them all as the same name because I'm guessing you don't really like any of them. I had the name Eva picked out since I was about 18 when it wasn't that popular at all, but it's rise in popularity wasn't going to put me off. My DD is definitely not an Evie.

And going back to my original point, the 'sea' of Eve, Evie, Eva, Ava, Evelyn, Aoife just doesn't exist in my area. I know one adult Eve, who is an Evonne, one Eva, who is my 10yo DD, and a 14yo Eva, who lives in a different part of the country. I don't know any others but apparently they're everywhere.

TheFormidableMrsC · 13/04/2023 17:53

One. She's horrible 😆

suzettenoisette · 13/04/2023 18:19

MuffinToSeeHere · 13/04/2023 16:56

I disagree. To me Eva, Eve, Evie, Ava are different names. An Eve could be called Evie but I don't think it's a given and the names are distinctive enough. Just because several people have said it doesn't mean they're right, especially as some of the comments have been mean spirited and obviously just been made to hurt OP.

As someone who works in a lot of schools they do absolutely all merge together though. It's not unkind to point that out. When you have a cohort of children where a significant amount have very similar sounding names they do indeed start to all sound alike even though they are obviously different names.

It's the same with boys names starting with an A. Around here in any given class in a primary school a large proportion of the boys names all sound alike think Archie, Alfie, Arlo, Albie, Artie and Archer consequently even though they are different names they like all the Eva's, Ava's, Edie's and Evie's start to merge into one name.

I'm a teacher ;) To me they don't. Especially Ava doesn't sound the same to me at all. Ava is much closer to Ada or Ayla than to Evie. Ivy is somewhat close to Evie but that never gets mentioned.

Koalasparkles · 13/04/2023 18:33

None!! In Yorkshire

Loveyou3000 · 13/04/2023 18:33

South UK. Probably about 5, various ages, one that lives in Canada though.

Thefaceofboe · 13/04/2023 18:42

I work in a nursery and we have 4 Evie’s in the baby room right now, a combination of just Evie, Evelyn, Eva etc. It is a lovely name though

ApocalypseNowt · 13/04/2023 18:45

Lots. There's at least one in every group I can think of (DC1 friends, DC2 friends, my friends' kids, kids of people at work, NCT kids, etc).

I'm in W Yorkshire

BoldandBright · 13/04/2023 18:58

East midlands. Personally know 2 but met lots professionally (working in Education).

BridieConvert · 13/04/2023 19:03

2 - one aged 3, one aged 15.
Scotland

CoffeeChocolateWine · 13/04/2023 19:24

Cos she is kidding herself. There a whole pile of people on this thread saying Eva / Evie etc are all just the same blob that merge into one and if someone can't see how that's perceived then they are deluding themselves when multiple people are saying that exact thing!!!

I'm baffled by why you think I am kidding myself...kidding myself about what exactly? I haven't claimed to think our name choice was original or imaginative. When we picked DDs name, we were fully aware she might end up being 'one of many' or that there might be several other children with similar sounding names in her class, but the fact is she's not in our particular area. I occasionally hear similar Ev- names in playgrounds but personally I don't know many at all. If being unique and imaginative was very important to us then we would have chosen something different, but picking a name we both loved and agreed on was more important.

And in honesty, people who can't be bothered to use people's given name because their small brains can't cope with the fact that some names sound similar come across as really ignorant. And as for the people saying they work in schools and can't tell the difference between children because they look the same and have similar sounding names are in the wrong line of work 🤦‍♀️

StillWantingADog · 13/04/2023 19:28

A handful
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i like it but I think it needs to be a short form of Evelyn or Evangeline or a nn for Eve

DontLikeMenthols · 13/04/2023 19:37

One…and she was a right bitch

grumpycow1 · 13/04/2023 19:38

1 aged 6 (south, city)

grumpycow1 · 13/04/2023 19:38

Oh and one in her twenties!