What do you think of Avis?

[Foxboro]

What do you think of Avis as a girl's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.
My Mum's middle name was Avis, She was a lovely, kind lady who was born in 1924. Wonder when the name will come back into fashion?

the car hire thing is unfortunate

Car hire sorry.

I love the name Flora, but never would use it because of the margerine!

I met a lovely guy from Argentina called Ariel. It is a good name in itself but I just couldn't help thinking of the detergent.

Shame really, he was gorgeous, sigh

I love love love it. I have an Ava but I tend to lengthen it to Avis and my all-time hero, Gram Parsons mother and sister were called Big Avis and Little Avis. Love it.

I too absolutely love this name but have always thought the reaction would be of car rental and sadly this seems the case. Doesn't have to hold with 'your' Avis though - she could make it her own.
Another suggestion on a similar theme is Ailbhe - an Irish name pronounced Alva which I think is beautiful too.

If you went with it, I bet even you would succumb to saying "you know, as in the car hire" when spelling the name over the phone...

have to say when i read the thread title i did think you were referring to the car hire people!

then i noted it was in baby names.

i tend to come on these threads and tell peopoe that if they love the name then use it, it doesn't matter what others think,. but in this case, i'm really not so sure.... avis is just so ubiquitous now with car rentals