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3rd Trimester
Does Evelyn sound "old"?
This is one of the finals, but we're unsure. I had a great aunt with that name. Is it "old" sounding? TIA!
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Re: Does Evelyn sound "old"?
I agree.
I love it. My second favorite band - My Morning Jacket has a great song by that name too, I think that's what makes me like it even more : )
its funny how everyone is worrying about giving their child an "old" sounding name but no one worries about giving their baby a "childish" sounding name and worrying about what people might think when the child grows up. i think evelyn is a strong sounding name, very professional yet pretty.
No, I grew up with an Evelyn... she went by "Evie". More traditional names are much more common now. Look at "Emma", for example. Before Rachel named her baby Emma on friends, most of us thought of it as an old lady name.
We are naming our LO Madelyn-- also a traditional name.
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Names go in and out of style. It seems like names like "Evelyn", "Emma", "Olivia" are coming back in style. "Emma" is the name of a Jane Austen novel from the 18th century. So it has plenty of age and tradition. My grandmother was named "Evelyn" so for me it has a somewhat old connotation. But it doesn't make it pretty.
I love the name "Elizabeth" and it is definitely old and traditional.
Names like Chloe, Zoey, Tiffany, etc. are less traditional in that we can't find examples of them being used prior to recent decades.
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This. Love it but DH did not. I would have called her Evie, if we had gone with the name.
Same here. In fact, he hated it -- "too old-fashioned."
Well, if you look at my ticker - you'll see that I love the name. We did face some resistance with my DH's family because it sounded 'old' and they didn't like it but i think that it's classic and one day will look great on letterhead!
We do call her Evie for short around the house but most everyone else calls her Evelynn. Only thing that annoys me is that we are in the south so it sometimes turns into a two syllable name, Ev-luhn instead of Ev-eh-lynn.
Oh, we added the n and it was almost evelynne b/c that's how my middle name is spelled, Lynne, and my deceased father contributed that part to my name. Thought the e was a little too much so we just added the extra n. This was the debate the day she was born in-between contractions!!