Ever - Baby girl name?

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Hey all,

Is Ever a name that I could use for a baby girl?

I want to use the name Eva to be honest but with the German accent, so "Eh-Va" , not "EE - Va" which is the english version.

Hence I thought of Ever? Could it be a name?

How "Eh-Va" can be written to make a name with this sound?

Opinions please :)

There's a girl in my nieces class called Ever.

The German Eva is pronounced with a long ‘e’ / Eh -you wouldn’t get the long e with Ever. If you want the German pronounciation, I’d just spell it Eva and correct people.

Was just going to say the same - Eva is NOT pronounced Ever or Evva in German!

Never

There’s a girl in my daughter’s class called Eva, pronounced Ever. Parents are French/Spanish. I imagine most people pronounce it incorrectly first time, she/her parents correct them, that’s the end of it. Just go with the Eva spelling rather than making one up.

Awful just terrible.

This. Ava is a lovely name (assuming that's the pronunciation you're looking for)

Many many English speakers pronounce their Rs, (I do) so she'd spend her life explaining it's a silent R to anyone who does.

People say that for Heather around these parts!

I like it but I would only use it as a diminutive for:
Evelyn
Everly
Evadne
Evangeline

I wouldn't use Ewa without Polish (or East European if it's used more widely) ancestry and isn't Efa pronounced Ee-fuh (I knew one and I'm sure she said it like that).

There's the Slavic version, "Yeva"

I really like it. I can imagine it fitting in to my DC’s group of class names.

Ever’s fine imo - I think a couple of celebs have got Ever’s and it’s not unheard of in other countries. In the UK I think people will likely assume it’s an uncommonly used word name - more like say, True, rather than an Eva variant, but that’s no big deal imo and at least gets you the closer to the pronunciation you want. I think it sounds quite pretty actually.

While Efa would roughly work too, technically the A ending should have a strong “ah” sound rather than the lazy “uh” ending sound most English people would say for Ever or even many English A ending names. But you’d have hassle regularly explaining the F as a “vuh ” outside Wales.

It sounds like how Phil Mitchel pronounces 'Heather'.

I named my daughter Ever Mae, she's 12 now and has always loved her name. She's never had anyone tease her about it or anything. Everyone that knows her- her friends, schoolmates, etc, all love it, she gets a lot of compliments about it. I was worried it may be too out there or ppl might give her a hard time but nope.

No. It would just be plain daft.

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