Evodia/Evodie/Euodia — underrated?

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What are your thoughts on Evodia/Evodie/Euodia? I feel like they deserve so much more love!

Evodie was listed on a Nameberry blog list a few months ago, and I immediately fell in love with it. The Nameberry listings say that Evodie is the French variant of Evodia, which is the latinized version of Euodia.

The meaning for all three is “A Good Journey”.
Euodia/Evodia is also the name of a beautiful species of tree.

Personally, of the three variants, I like Evodia the best as a full name. The long O sound is pleasant to me, the pronunciation is pretty clear based on the spelling, and it feels like name that could carry a person through their whole life. The color of the name feels jewel toned, like amethyst or ruby, it’s soft like velvet, and if it had a smell, it would smell like fresh roses to me.

Evodie feels a little more light and nicknamey, but it’s still lovely. It feels airy and springy, robin’s egg blue, petunia pink, mint, butter yellow to me, like a crisp breeze on the first real day of spring.
I hesitate to put Evodie on my short list, because (at least in my dialect of English), the syllables get run together, and sounds like “Evity”, which doesn’t feel as round, substantial, and beautiful to me.

Euodia is lovely, and it definitely still sounds very ancient to me. I’m not as much a fan of two strong vowel sounds in a row (“yoo-oh-dee-uh”). I see it as ivory linen and rich emerald green, like the dark shiny leaves of a magnolia tree.

As far as nickname potential, feel like if I named a daughter Evodie, I would just call her that, but if I named a daughter Evodia, I would give her a nickname like Evie prn ehh-vee. I don’t intuit much nickname potential from Euodia :woman_shrugging:t3:

I feel like all three are great, and deserve more love. What are your thoughts? Do you think any of the three would be usable on a child today?

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I really like the sounds of [name_f]Evodia[/name_f]!

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Extremely

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[name_f]Evodia[/name_f] is gorgeous!! :hibiscus: I’ve never heard it before.

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I love Evodie!! I included it in my series of names I rarely see on NB because it feels like a great update to [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u] and [name_f]Elodie[/name_f]. I also love the nn [name_f]Evy[/name_f] (eh-vee, not ee-vee), so I’d use [name_f]Evy[/name_f] as a nickname for [name_f]Evodie[/name_f].

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I’ve never heard of these names before, but I adore them! They’re quite rare but with a familiar feel to them, which I love. There’s also some nickname potential- [name_f]Evie[/name_f], [name_f]Eva[/name_f], [name_f]Dia[/name_f], and [name_f]Didi[/name_f] would all work as NNs. :smiling_face:

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I’d never heard these names before.

[name_f]Evodia[/name_f] - while unusual, the syllable pattern lends a familiarity, as it fits with names like [name_f]Olivia[/name_f] and [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]. I’m not a fan however as it sounds like a laxative medication.

[name_f]Evodie[/name_f] - I feel this one’s more wearable. It’s not my style personally as I don’t like names like [name_f]Elodie[/name_f], [name_f]Amelie[/name_f], [name_f]Ophelie[/name_f] etc, but this similarity will be exactly why it appeals to others. [name_u]An[/name_u] interesting choice.

[name_f]Euodia[/name_f] - this is fabulously over the top, but not too wearable. Would make a great and distinguished middle.

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These are cool! I’m loving whimsical [name_f]Euodia[/name_f]. That’s my favorite sound of the three—plus, how fabulous to have all of the vowels in one name? :wink:

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I’m sorry but they remind me of void/avoid. [name_f]Euodia[/name_f] sounds like a complex literary term.

I much prefer [name_f]Eudora[/name_f] and [name_f]Eulalia[/name_f] and [name_f]Eugenia[/name_f].

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[name_f]Evodie[/name_f] is my favorite of the three, I would have problems pronouncing [name_f]Euodia[/name_f] correctly :sweat_smile:

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