Evangeline

[boodleboot]

Too try hard or beautifully unusual?

[SixtyFootDoll]

lovely

[BooKangerooWonders]

lovely, but I'd also shorten to Evie sometimes!

[Comewhinewithme]

Beautiful I wanted to call dd this but dp said no.

[Bucharest]

Lovely.

[PfftTheMagicDragon]

I like it, DH said no, too flowery for him. I gave up in the end though as we live in an area filled with Evies.

[LadyOfTheFlowers]

I love it too and for some reason didn't think of shortening it to Eve/Evie - preggo brain.

Ange got stuck in my head instead.

[MintyMoo]

Love it!!! First choice for me if I have a DD

[exexpat]

There's even a book with a cool heroine called Evangeline Mudd.

[Lomond]

It's lovely Go for it!

[BonjourIvressedeNoel]

amazing, very elegant with a nice nickname

[BunnyLebowski]

Absolutely gorgeous! Go for it!

[oldspeckledtam]

My DD was nearly this, but I couldn't get past the 'vange' in the middle. Sounded harsh and vaguely rude to my ears.

[PuppyMonkey]

I do like it, but I am a fan of Kate from Lost (Evangeline Lily). Evie nice for short too.

[Vivia]

Evangeline is perfection! My prob is that I don't much like Evie as a nn. But I know a gorgeous Evangeline known as Evan.

[mumoftoomany]

Evangeline is elegant and lovely. But Evie is very, very popular/common.

[legallyblond]

Can I just ask... I love this name, but wondered how others pronounce it.

I would always say "ev-ang-e-leene", but don't really like "ev-ang-el-line" (to rhyme with wine). Which is the right way?

[PfftTheMagicDragon]

leene

[FoofFighter]

The vange can sound hard if you pronounce it hard, soften it by making the vange soft like in (the posher version of ) garage

[boodleboot]

ooh good idea foof.....i dont mind Eva as a nickname which is what the Evangeline at my kids school is called for short....

[MaryBS]

Evangeline was the maid who went on to marry Colin Firth in Nanny McPhee.

I think its a beautiful name, and would pronounce it een, not to rhyme with wine

[DorotheaPlenticlew]

I know an Evangeline (adult) who pronounces it E-vange-e-lin (not -leene or -line).

Think it is lovely and cannot remember her ever being nicknamed anything, and I've known her since she was about four.

[AllieW]

Must be the only dissenting voice (so I'd ignore me if I were you), but for some reason it reminds me too strongly of Germalene. Plus the "Evange" bit of it says "Evangelicals"/"Evangelicalism" to me which also has negative connoitations.

[Eddas]

I've loved this name ever since I used to watch House of Elliot with my mum!! I couldn't use it for dc though as it felt too 'much' IYSWIM, I think i'd have felt odd introducing dd as Evangeline, would've probably shortened it to Evie which I also love. Although TBH the name had been forgotten by me until in labour with dc 2(dc1 is a girl) and I ended up watching endless House of Elliot as it was the only thing on tv in the early hours!! But dc2 is a boy so could'nt have used it then anyway.

Sorry for the waffle, basically I love the name but not sure I could have a dd named it