Honest opinion on names please! 🙏

[LillyCandC]

Please can you tell me what do you think of the following names
Wilfred
Zachary
Evelyn
Beatrice

Beatrice is nice.

I like them all! I have a soft spot for Wilfred but have been slightly put off by Boris Johnson using it 😂 I also think Zachary is lovely, though it has a different feel to your other choices. I prefer Beatrice over Evelyn.

I like them all

I’d go for Zachary over Wilfred

And Beatrice over Evelyn as the latter has been done to death

Wilfred - Boris Johnson
Zachary - no
Evelyn - yes
Beatrice - Prince Andrew's daughter

All are nice and I know kids with all these names. My favourite is Zachary. With Evelyn do consider that it has 2 pronunciations in case that bothers you (Eve-lyn v Ev-er-lyn).

I like Zachary and Beatrice… although probably slightly prefer Beatrix.

Wilfred I liked until Boris Johnson used it.

Evelyn is fine but personally I just hear it as two names “eve” “lyn” and it’s multiple spellings might annoy me.

I like them all a lot. I know a fab little Beatrice who goes by Bea, so I'd probably pick that over Evelyn. Hard to chose between Wilfred and Zachary.

All perfectly good names. None of them are particularly exciting but that's fine by me. I don't love any of them and I really don't like Wilfred, but they are nice enough.

Evelyn doesn't have just two pronunciations, it has three. In Ireland it's usually pronounced EV-lyn.

If I had to choose I'd pick Zachary or Beatrice.

Thanks everyone! How funny! I never put two and two together with BJs son.. also I never considered that Evelyn can be pronounced 3 different ways. I assumed that Ev-Lyn is boys name and girls is pronounced Ev-er-lyn but I can totally see Eve-lyn now too, doh

Like Zachary, prefer Zachariah
Like Beatrice

Not me on other two, and Evelyn is a pronunciation nightmare

I prefer Wilfred to Zachery. I think because there is a Zack and a Zach (Zachery) in my sons class, but I don't know a Wilfred.

I think Evelyn would gey list in the Evie type names. Beatrice is lovely.

I never imagined everlyn at all, but thar us a horrible sound to me.

I find Wilfred slightly wet.

Love Zachary although please don't shorten it to "zachie" which my friend did and is just too twee for words!

Evelyn is meh. There are a bazillion squillion Evies and Eves and Evelyns around.

Beatrice is nice.

Only like Zachery, the rest are old people names which I am not a fan of

All. Names are nice.

Don’t worry about Boris son being called Wilfred. Tony Blair had a son and named him Leo when I was pregnant, so crossed that off my shortlist. A couple of years down the line, most people couldn’t name Tony Blair’s children.

Friend of mine is Evelyn and she pronounces it Ee-flynn

Beatrice is lovely, as is Wilfred

I like Wilf & Zach, both classes and non poncy IMO.

Evelyn sounds harsh and will be shortened to Eve/Evie and there are a trillion of them in nursery schools up and down the country, it's interchangeable with all the Ellie's and Ella's too. Just a bit Meh.

Beatrice is lovely, uncommon and love the name Bea as a nickname.

Wilfred and Beatrice are nicer than the others.

Wilfred- like
Zachary- like
Evelyn- ok but not keen on Evie and lots around
Beatrice- not a fan personally. Somehow find a bit frumpy.

I like Evelyn as Ev-eh-Lyn but not as Eve-Lyn. I think it will just be another Evie though. Beatrice is nice, prefer Beatrix though, absolutely love Bea as a nn, works for a child and an adult. Not so keen on the boy choices. Not a fan of the old man name trend and there’s lots of Zachary’s about

Wilfred - ok, will be Wilf
Zachary - popular, will be Zac
Evelyn - can't see any appeal. Eveh-lin, Eevlin or Evlin? Evie overused
Beatrice - fine

Wilfred - I prefer William

Zachary - love

Evelyn - not so keen

Beatrice - love

I like Evelyn and Wilfred

Thanks everyone 🙏 I do like Evelyn but not sure about nn… I like Bea as nn

Wilfred - I want to like it and I like Wilf but just find the whole name a bit meh. I feel the same about Walter, love Walt but the whole name just falls flat for me

Zachary - love it, it's on our current long list. I like Zach too but love the sound of the full nane Zachary

Evelyn - its ok, a pretty name. Just a bit done to death at the moment. At least that's how it feels in my area

Beatrice - I like it. Not that keen on the shortening Bea but like Tris. I do prefer Beatrix though, I feel it has more spark