Evelyn or Megan?

[LazyLinePainterJane]

DH and I are at loggerheads debating these two names. I like the first, he likes the latter. I like Meg, not keen on Megan but DH says that Meg goes better with DS's name.

I don't want to discourage him as he has spent the last 23 weeks set on one name that I vetoed and refusing to budge so any movement in the name department is good.

So which do you prefer?

AND, if you like Evelyn, what other names do you like or possibly choose for your children as I love the name but feel strange using it?

Thanks!

Megan
Evelyn sounds old-fashioned to me, whereas Eve, Eva or Evie don't.

I love Evelyn, and would strive to not get it shortned to, the more common at the moment, Evie.

If you like Eleanor, but can't go with that, how about Helena? this was on our list for a girl. Not common, classic and classy, and strong.

Claudia was also suggested on another thread, which I love and fits your 'unusual but not weird' criteria. Has same qualkitis as Helena I think.

Evelyns do not have blue rinses.

They wear pencil skirts, and have thier hair 'set' and wear a little pillar box a slight angle, and have perfectly pouty crimson lips and stockings with seams up the back (think Tippi hendron)

OR they might wear long beaded evening dresses, drink appertifs and discuss politics over dinner at their friends country house, and smoke ciragrettes out of holders (not that you want your baby to do this obviously)think Keira Knighly in Atonement.

But they certainly DO NOT have blue rinses.

Evelyn is the prettiest name ever! So i vote Evelyn x

Evelyn is lovely. I think Megan is a bit 80s/90s, really.

Ooooh such opposing opinion!!! Now that doesn't help me at all, you must all agree !!

I do quite like Helena but it is taken by a relative (as is Jennifer) so we can't use it, I'm not going down the family name route. Not sure about Claudia.

Dh is not budging from Megan. He gets like this with names, the last one he had decided we were using since before we were together . His confidence does not sway me.

I have a Megan who I insisted I would call Meg (Little Women was my fave book) but from the moment she was born she was Megan. Unfortunately terry Wogan and his TOG names have ruined Evelyn for me with the Evelyn Tentions TOG

Megveline

Evangelmeg

Evelyn definately. I have an Eve.

Evelyn - if I had a girl that would be her name but only have boys.....

Evelyn wins hands down....admittedly I do not like the name Megan, I find it very harsh sounding and ungirly, sorry to all the Megans out there ( I feel the same about my own name, by the way, lol)

Evelyn is a much nicer name than Megan.

If you like Eleanor but not Ellie, what about Alana / Ali?

Sorry I cannot stand Evelyn, to me it's one of those biddy names that just isn't fashionable, unlike Florence, Kitty, Violet and Mary etc, it reminds me of Heavelyn, yuck sorry, Edith is another one I just don't get it.

I'd go for Megan.

Sorry for rant.

Megveline and Evangelmeg

I think I might just call her baby. I have had enough of thinking up names. It wasn't this hard with DS, I feel much more under pressure to come up with a lovely yet practical girls name.

So what do you think of:

Penelope
Ruth
Cecile
Clementine
Laurel
Sylvia
Jennifer
Rowan

Penelope - yes
Ruth - no
Cecile - No
Clemintine - hmm, kindof. Its a grower
Laural - yes
Sylvia - (are you giving birth to an old lady?)

Jennifer - yes

Rowan - yes

I also like

Meredith
Camille

Penelope - no, just don't like Penny very much
Ruth - yes
Cecile - yes, lovely
Clementine - really like this but would worry about fruit associations. What about Clemency?
Laurel - love it
Sylvia - really like this and I wouldn't have said that a few years ago
Jennifer - don't like at all and really dislike Jenny as a nickname
Rowan - like it

Meredith is gorgeous.

Clementine is a bit of a no-hope anyway, DH laughs every time I mention the name

I know someone here recently called their DD Meredith, it grows on me the sore I hear it.

Isnt Meredith a boys name too.

Now you're just stirring up trouble Sim