[name_f]Morning[/name_f]…
[name_f]Afternoon[/name_f]…
[name_f]Evening[/name_f]…
What do you think? Which do you like or dislike and why?
I love [name_f]Evening[/name_f], actually! I love the time of day, and I think [name_f]Evening[/name_f] sounds so pretty. [name_f]Eve[/name_f] or [name_f]Evie[/name_f] could be sweet nns, too. My sister actually went to school with an Eveling ([name_f]EVE[/name_f]-ling), which I think is equally gorgeous!
[name_f]Morning[/name_f] is nice, too, but could be misconstrued as Mourning, which isn’t so great. [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] isn’t namey enough for me, but sort of sounds like [name_f]Afton[/name_f], so it might pass. I also like [name_m]Midnight[/name_m] a lot, but only for a boy. I like [name_f]Evening[/name_f] and [name_f]Morning[/name_f] more for girls.
I think they’re all used to much in daily conversation to be usable as first names (I think the same way about Weekdays).
[name_f]Every[/name_f] time the teacher says “good morning” it would give the whole class an oppertunity for a nasty comment. I’m usually not too worried about kids making fun of names, but the oppertunity is basically handed to them on a platter, every day.
Same with [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f]; how many meetings wil [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] attend where “good afternoon” is the first thing that’ll be said.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many restaurants will [name_f]Evening[/name_f] go to where “good [name_f]Evening[/name_f], madame” is what they will say before they show her the table.
I for one, would be awfully annoyed by it. And why bestow “names” like that on your child if you get the opportunity to use them every day, anyway.
You get my point, I think.
I think you live in a more polite country than I do! In the US, I mostly hear hi rather than “Good evening” etc. 
I can’t say I’m as fond of [name_f]Morning[/name_f] (I’m not keen on the ‘mourning’ aspect that could come along with it) or [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] (‘after’ isn’t the best concept in a lot of cases, eg. afterthought), but I quite like [name_f]Evening[/name_f], which has a lovely sound and imagery, and also the [name_f]Eve[/name_f] beginning which makes it feel like it could work well as a given name.
Though more toward the GP side of the scale than the usable one, I like [name_m]Midnight[/name_m] & Dusk too.
I love [name_f]Evening[/name_f] too, both the time and the word/name. To me it sounds enough like [name_f]Eve[/name_f], [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u], [name_f]Evangeline[/name_f], etc. that it feels quite namey enough to use comfortably.
Eveling is gorgeous, have never heard that before, reminds me of [name_m]Grayling[/name_m], another love of mine.
Nameberry has an [name_f]Evenie[/name_f] on their list too which is kind of nice.
I love it as middle name too. [name_f]Lilac[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Thora[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Thalia[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Ghislaine[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Ethereal[/name_f] sounding names. Something [name_f]Anne[/name_f] of [name_u]Green[/name_u] Gables would have loved!
Maybe you different restaurants than we have. Sure, at Mc Donalds no one would say “good evening” but at almost every other place, every waiter would say good evening.
And don’t teachers say “good morning class” in [name_u]America[/name_u]? I would have thought so.
And if I’m in a business meeting and the boss/head of the meeting comes in, wouldn’t he say “good afternoon”?
Of course hi/hello would be used in less offical matters but I would expect to hear all of those quite a lot; even if it’s just “so are we good for tomorrow evening”, etc.
Yes, certainly these words are used, but I don’t say good morning, class to my students. We are more casual here, but it doesn’t bother me that these words are used in other ways. It either bothers you or it doesn’t and for me it doesn’t.
If I had to pick one of the three, I’d go with [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Morning[/name_f] and [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] are used too much in everyday conversation to not be confusing as names, especially since they’re never used in that way ([name_m]Will[/name_m] is annoying to me, as well, but it’s very common and well established). I say [name_f]Evening[/name_f] much less, usually just in a “Have a good [name_f]Evening[/name_f]!” way but I’d ordinarily swap [name_f]Evening[/name_f] for night.
You don’t say ‘good morning’ to people/students? Not even “'[name_f]Morning[/name_f]”? I say ‘good morning’ as much as I say ‘hi’ and ‘hello’ - a thousand times a day.
I too would go with [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] doesn’t particularly appeal to me and give [name_f]Morning[/name_f]'s misconstrued connotations as the others have already pointed out, I would avoid it.
In Australia, this words tend to be used as one word phrases for said alone, so it’s not uncommon to hear someone call “[name_f]Afternoon[/name_f]!” to their neighbor, “[name_f]Evening[/name_f]!” or “[name_f]Morning[/name_f]!” without anything after it. In primary school, every time a teacher came into the classroom, we would say (somewhat sing-songy) “Good afternoon, Miss …” It’s probably just a cultural thing here, but that’s why I associate the words with, and it’s important to keep in mind they are still words. Whether you like them as names or not.
I too would go with [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] doesn’t particularly appeal to me and give [name_f]Morning[/name_f]'s misconstrued connotations as the others have already pointed out, I would avoid it.
In Australia, this words tend to be used as one word phrases for said alone, so it’s not uncommon to hear someone call “[name_f]Afternoon[/name_f]!” to their neighbor, “[name_f]Evening[/name_f]!” or “[name_f]Morning[/name_f]!” without anything after it. In primary school, every time a teacher came into the classroom, we would say (somewhat sing-songy) “Good afternoon, Miss …” It’s probably just a cultural thing here, but that’s why I associate the words with, and it’s important to keep in mind they are still words. Whether you like them as names or not, some people will solely associate them with terms of the day.
Yes, I use the words morning and evening, but that does not cause me to dislike them as names. I use [name_f]Tuesday[/name_f] and [name_f]Violet[/name_f] as well, but again, that does not bother me. I love word names and find many of them preferable to non-word names.
I would not use any as I think they are all used too much in day-to-day conversation to be usable as names. If I HAD to choose I would pick [name_f]Evening[/name_f] as I love the time of day. Also [name_f]Eve[/name_f] or [name_f]Evie[/name_f] could be sweet nicknames.
[name_f]Dawn[/name_f] works beautifully as a time of day name without worrying about the ‘good morning’ aspect.
[name_f]Dawn[/name_f] is very 70’s here. I would likely use these names as middles anyway so no one would especially be using them.
[name_f]Lilac[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f]. [name_f]Geneva[/name_f] [name_f]Morning[/name_f]. [name_f]Dinah[/name_f] [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f]. [name_m]How[/name_m] worried can we be about time names when folks are naming their daughters Brylin and their sons [name_m]Wrecker[/name_m]?
I don’t mind word names, but I think these would be very inconvenient/annoying to be saddled with or to have a child called.
I may use words like [name_u]Poet[/name_u], [name_f]Joy[/name_f], [name_u]June[/name_u], [name_u]Winter[/name_u], etc a few times a week or in relevant conversation, but I use these time of day words multiple times every single day. I live in the US, and I haven’t been out of school THAT long, and teachers always said good afternoon and good morning and many students did the same. My daughter’s class does it in day care. I say it to the clerk at the supermarket. I say it to my kid when she wakes up. I say it to my visiting family when they leave at night. I say it when making plans.
“Good morning, [name_f]Morning[/name_f]”
“What would you like for breakfast this morning, [name_f]Morning[/name_f]?”
“Would you like to finish your chores this morning, or wait until the afternoon”
“We have to go to the bank this morning, [name_f]Morning[/name_f]”
It would get old REALLY fast.
[name_f]Evening[/name_f] I see as very slightly more usable, as the term isn’t as often used in the US (it’s often just replaced with tonight/night).
If I had to pick one I’d choose [name_f]Evening[/name_f], because you could always shorten it to [name_f]Eve[/name_f] or [name_f]Evie[/name_f].
But I would probably hate to be saddled with [name_f]Morning[/name_f], [name_f]Evening[/name_f] or [name_f]Afternoon[/name_f] as a name. I do like word names, but I think to work for me, they have to be a little more meaningful or interesting then something like a time of the day.
[name_f]Violet[/name_f] makes me think of the flower, which is a symbol of Greece and faithfulness and good fortune. I like the imagery of [name_u]Winter[/name_u] and if I had a love of poetry, I’d name use the name [name_u]Poet[/name_u]. [name_f]Dawn[/name_f] is an okay example of a day time name I wouldn’t hate to have; when I hear [name_f]Dawn[/name_f], I think of sunrises and it’s often used to describe new beginnings.
[name_f]Morning[/name_f] just makes me think about getting my coffee before a 9am lecture. I’ve never understood the growing popularity of days of the week as names either.
I think [name_f]Evening[/name_f] is the most usuable but I still wouldn’t wholeheartedly recommend it as a first name, simply because “good evening” and “have a good evening!” remarks would occur too often, as previous posters have said. [name_f]Eve[/name_f] could be an option; is used as a synonym for evening in literary texts, so has the same connection, as well as being a name to boot.
The combination of [name_f]Geneva[/name_f] [name_f]Morning[/name_f] is lovely though, and although [name_f]Lilac[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f] is very evocative, it makes me think too obviously of a twilight that is lilac in colouring. I would prefer [name_f]Lilah[/name_f] [name_f]Evening[/name_f].
[name_f]Dawn[/name_f] is a lovely time-of-day name and Dusk also works (although better as a male name), and Crepuscule and Daybreak could make whimsical middle names. Sundown could make quite a nice boy’s name sound-wise, although since it evokes the fading of the light it might also be better in the middle place.
I don’t really care for them as first names.
[name_f]Dawn[/name_f], sure.
[name_f]Eve[/name_f], sure.
The ones you listed just sound too wordy. They could work as middles I think [name_f]Evening[/name_f] could be a nice middle in the right combo.