{"id":12016,"date":"2016-03-31T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:26:17","slug":"baby-naming-issue-does-eva-lee-sound-like-evilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2016\/03\/31\/baby-naming-issue-does-eva-lee-sound-like-evilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Does Eva Lee Sound Like Evilly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! I’m so excited to finally be able to write in with a question of my own!<\/p>\n

We’re due in August with a baby girl, our first. My husband and I are on the same page when it comes to name styles, which is amazing and I’m super grateful for it, especially after reading this blog for so many years :)<\/p>\n

The trouble I’m having is with our last name, which sounds like “Lee.” So many adorable girl names don’t work with Lee – either they run into the last name and end up sounding like the baby has just a first name (eg Emma Lee = Emily; Cora Lee = Coralie) or there is too much duplication in sounds (eg Emily Lee, Ella Lee, Holly Lee, etc).<\/p>\n

The particular name in question at the moment though is “Eva.” It’s one of my husband’s top contenders (and I really like it as well!), and people we’ve mentioned it to have also gotten excited and urged us to use it. But I’m worried about the full name: does “Eva Lee” sound like “evilly”?? I think it totally does, and that it’s problematic to saddle a child with such a negative association.<\/p>\n

My husband claims no one would say it in such a run-on fashion to make the association, and I realize we could give her a middle name that we like to use when saying her full name, like “Eva Katherine Lee” or something, but I certainly hardly ever use my full name when introducing myself or filling out paperwork. It also depends on pronunciation (EE-vah vs. EHH-vah) but again, I wouldn’t be able to control how people throughout her life choose to pronounce it every time.<\/p>\n

So I’d love to get your opinion & that of your readers: am I being an oversensitive pregnant lady and too hung up on having my baby’s name sound super negative, or is this a combo you’d stay away from as well?<\/p>\n

Thanks!
\nAlice<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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You know what, I have been so upset for so long about that poll plug-in I was using, the one that lost all the poll results for all the posts—but there comes a time where you just have to go back to what sometimes works and other times leads to crushing despair. Because this question DEMANDS a poll. It DEMANDS it. And so back we go, into the polling fray.<\/p>\n

First I will say what I think, which is that it sounds enough like the word evilly that I believe I would be prevented from using it. I would be sorry, I would be sad, but in the end it crosses my own line.<\/p>\n

HOWEVER. I do not feel as strictly about nicknames. If you named her, say, Evalina, and called her Eva, it bothers me MUCH MUCH LESS. For one thing, at times when you need to say the first and last names together (doctor’s office, classroom, etc.), it will generally be said with the full first name. For another thing, if the problem turns out to be TOO problematic (it can be difficult to predict ahead of time), the nickname can be dropped as a solution.<\/p>\n

Now for the poll. It’s been awhile, so I will remind everyone that the polls NEVER have enough answers to fit everyone’s exact answer. NEVER. If they did, there would be a 1000-option poll with one vote each for the 1000 different options, and that would be of very little help. Instead, we narrow the options to get a more helpful result, and use the comments section for clarifying answers further. Also, I am a bit rusty about polls, so this one may be PARTICULARLY poor with option choices. It may take a bit of warm-up before we are back into this completely.<\/p>\n

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Name update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apologies for the delayed update! It was a hard choice, because I am still totally in love with the name Eva, but I decided I couldn’t handle a lifetime of second-guessing myself on the “evilly” front… so in August we welcomed miss Juliette Elizabeth:<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle! I’m so excited to finally be able to write in with a question of my own! We’re due in August with a baby girl, our first. My husband and I are on the same page when it comes to name styles, which is amazing and I’m super grateful for it, especially after reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-37O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12542,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions\/12542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}