Baby girl names - thoughts please

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My name is very common for my age group, in my school year there were five of us with the same name. I don't really want this for my daughter. She's due in 3 weeks and we are stuck on a name!
Our list changes quite often but these are the names we're considering:
Evelyn
Eliza
Maeve
Hazel
We both like them and they all sound good with our surname, I'm just not sure if any are off-putting. Any thoughts please?

Apart from Hazel I think you will either come across duplicate names or very similar sounding names. Which I personally don’t think is a bad thing, but if you’re wanting an unusual name they’re maybe not the correct choice for you

They're all "in" names but that's OK if you're OK with it. Maeve is my favorite of those

Our surname is not common in the UK and will be hard for baby to learn.
It doesn't need to be a unique or unusual first name, just ideally not so popular she may have 5 in her class.
Evelyn sounds like it may be too popular now for what we want.
None of our friends have kids yet so other than the lists of popular names in recent years we don't have much to go off.
My MIL took 5 names off our list as they were off-putting to her (not sure why) so i wanted to know if anyone had any others that were off-putting

I like Evelyn but never know if it's pronounced Evlyn or Eevlyn

I teach a million variants of Evelyn.
Couple of Eliza's, it's a classic name written down but not very nice to say to get her attention.
Maeve is very popular
I love Hazel, never taught one in 22 years.

Hazel is lovely! And not massively common so a good option.

I do know loads of Evies - short for evelyn

5 Olivers in a class of 30? Assuming that’s 15 boys and 15 girls that means that 1/3rd of the boys are called Oliver.

Even at its peak popularity when it was clear number one boy’s name it was still only about 1 in 50 boys who had that name.

That means in a class of 15 boys and 15 girls the probability of having 5 called Oliver/Ollie is around 1 in 100,000.

If that’s what you have then statistically it’s probably the only class of its type in the entire country.

I work in a school and we have five Oliver’s in a year group of 60. It’s a very popular name. We also have several Oliver’s over different year groups within the school.

@Stealth18 , for some reason, the names seem to be concentrated locally.
I only know 3 Olivers, and they are completely different age groups. I don't know any under 35, but it's been a top 10 name for the past 20+ years.

I liked Eliza for our girl but DH didn’t. In the end went with Emmie. We also liked
Nora
Lydia (Liddy)
Maisie
Sienna
Indie
Adaline (Addie)

From a teacher and someone who has just spent a year in baby classes Eliza and Hazel would be the least common of yours but it entirely depends on area!

How about Annalise , pronounced Annaleese

5 Olivers in a mixed sex year group of 60 will happen around 1 in 2,200 times so still pretty rare.

I would say Evelyn or similar type names are definitely the most popular of your list.
We have an Eliza at our school but no Maeve or Hazel.
Maeve is my favourite out of your choices. I’m not too keen on Hazel, it just feels like an old lady name to me.
How about Maia/Maya or Mabel?

I doubt it tbh! I also had a class previously where 1/3 of the boys were called Jack.

I'd avoid Evelyn, I know loads of Evelyns or similar (Evie, Eva, Ava, Aoife...). I also know Evelyns pronounced Ev-lin, Ever-lin and Eve-lin so that could get annoying.

Maeve also seems to be having a moment. I know several preschooler Maeves after never hearing the name for 40 years.

But all you can do is choose the name you like best. There are two boys in my DC's class with the same very unusual name which I'm sure their parents thought was oh so unique!

Personally I think Hazel would be a lovely name. Reading the comments somebody referred to Mavis, which would be a wonderful retro and charming name.
sorry, not at all keen on the others on your shortlist.

Sorry I meant to comment to OP - I got distracted in a sea of Ollies! If popularity is a concern then definitely steer clear of Evelyn - will merge in among a million Evie/Ivy/Ellie.

I like Eliza which feels slightly more interesting. Hazel would definitely stand out!

I like all your names!. I have an Eliza, she’s the only one in her primary school, though there is an Elizabeth too.

At its peak in the mid 90’s Jack was twice as popular as Oliver has even been. Even so it would be fewer than 1 in 3000 classes that had 1/3rd of the boys with that same name.

Having said that regional variations will have an impact and make such a scenario more or less likely.

When you look at names the most surprising thing from a statistical point of view is how uncommon even the most common names are nowadays.

All lovely names but all seem to have been very popular. Elizabeth is quite useful as you can use Eliza but if every Karen, Sharon and Jenny is called Eliza she can change it to Beth, Elspeth, Betty, Bet, Eli, Iz, Izzie Liz or Lizzie,

I LOVE Maeve! When I chose my eldests name it was very low down in the ONS baby names list, so much so that I was worried that he’d be picked on for having an old man name- within 3 years it had rose to the 4th most popular name in the uk- you can’t predict what’ll happen. Just choose the name you love the most

Hazel is gorgeous. My friend has a little girl with that name and it suits her so much. She's strong, creative, empathetic and very bright. Beautiful name. She's 3 and I've not heard of another (South Wales).

I know three in London, all at the same nursery. One is now nick named Nutty.

That's the issue with popularity, it's very dependent on location. This little girl often gets called Hazelnut which I love.

Yes! Hazel is in the top girls list US and UK so I think there will be a likelihood of there being one other in the class. It was very popular in the 40s through to early 60s and I guess a number are being named after grandmothers. I love the name Hazel but I don’t like Hazelnut, I guess that is when they will be shortened to Nutty