What are your thoughts on the girl name Evelyn?

[jasminnie]

Let me know your opinions

It’s nice but it’s getting very popular.

Lovely. Most round here seem to go by Evie but I do know one who is always Evelyn and it sounds lovely ☺️

Its nice but it seems to be the most popular name in both of my dcs schools (they both know multiples).

That said, my youngest has an uncommon name and there is another one in her year so you can't win!

Depends where you are as to how people will pronounce it

It seems really popular recently, but I see it as a middle aged drab woman name.

I really like it, but there's the issue over which way to pronounce it.

I like it, but if you are going to be annoyed by people using different pronunciations it's not the name for you. Could be Ev-lyn, Eve-lyn or Ever-lyn

Has a nice ring to it, better for a girl than a boy for some reason

Very popular and starting to feel dated. Especially the short form Evie

So, so many in my DCs classes at school! DC3 has 4 in his class, all 4 are Evelyn’s but 2 go by Evie. DC2 has 2 in her class and DC1 has 1 in his class and 2 in his hobby class.

It can’t be that uncommon then!

It's fine

It could be. You could choose a name that is in the bottom 1000 with only 3 born the same year but by a huge coincidence 1 of the others is in the same school. Name itself is still uncommon

My neighbour has a little girl called Evelyn, they say it like Ever-lyn.
I like the name.

Like Evie? Peppa pigs new sister?

Don't do that to a kid.

I don't like it.

As an Evelyn...

• love my name, wish my parents had been brave enough to go for the Irish
• it's a family name. There are a lot of us.
• get EVE lyn all the time, but only takes a couple of corrections
• go by Ev for short

My daughter is Aoife.

I like it. I didn’t realise it was so popular. You could change it slightly and use the Italian version - Evelina.

I like it and only know 1.

I don’t like it personally, however…

Boring.

Soooo many Evies, please no more Evies!

Babies called Evelyn in England & Wales since 1996
Babies called Eve in England & Wales since 1996
Babies called Evie in England & Wales since 1996

Ava, Eva and Ivy are similar

I think it's a lovely name, and as people like to consider possible nicknames I think it's fairly versatile.
Eve, Evie, Ev, Lyn.
Bear in mind it is pronounced differently in different places.
I.E Ev-uh-Lyn instead of Eve-Lyn., not that that matters because both sound very pretty.

Boring

I think it's beautiful. Here it would possibly be pronounced Eve-lyn or Eveh-lyn so there might be occasional confusion from people on that front. I've never heard it pronounced with an 'r' and am imagining that to be either a pirate or a Somerset accent.

its really massively popular here and has been for almost 20 years. I know multiples of all the Evie /Evelyn\ Eve / Eva /Ava / Ivy / Ada so I wouldn’t personally.