Guys, I’m so desperate for advice. My daughter is almost 5 months and I can’t believe it, but her name still doesn’t feel right! Backstory. I have always LOVED the name [name_f]Maeve[/name_f]. Like with ally heart, its the only girl name I wanted but DH refused to get behind it. We had three boys first (pretty traditional names) then we had a girl, my husband and I agreed on Aveylnn and call her Avey for short. Then came our second daughter, DH was still not having [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] so we called her [name_f]Rosemary[/name_f]. Well now We’ve had our third and last girl and he finally said I could call her [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] but I just couldn’t get over how much he had hated it in the past so we went with [name_f]Felicity[/name_f]. Neither of us particularly love it and both have said how it is very hard to call her that. I’ve tried nicknames like Litty, Filly, event as far reaching as [name_f]Faye[/name_f]. I’m seriously considering changing it but would it be too weird to have a [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] that people will likely call Maevey when we already have an Avey?
[name_m]How[/name_m] do u pronounce Avey? Like [name_f]Eve[/name_f]-ee or hard A?
I don’t think having a [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] will be weird, and I also don’t see why people would call her Maevey when [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] is already short and sweet.
It is too close in my opinion. The sounds are similar and whilst babies are intelligent, it is very confusing to have such similar a name as the main sound is the Ayv sound. It wouldn’t be weird, just confusing. And I think people are more likely to call her [name_f]Mae[/name_f] than Maevey.
Other nicknames for [name_f]Felicity[/name_f]:
Fliss
[name_f]Ellie[/name_f]
Lissy
[name_f]Cilly[/name_f]
[name_f]Elle[/name_f]