WDYT of this name?

[charuby.livejournal.com]

I was filling a shelf in the shop I work at and overheard a woman call her daughter over to her. The daughter's name was Evangeline, pronounced Ee-van-jel-een. I don't like it, personally.

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[laminy.livejournal.com]

That isn't exactly how I would pronounce it, but that's probably just a small difference in phonetic spellings.

Evangeline is actually a fairly popular/common name, and has been for awhile. I think it's really pretty, and I would use it. It's quite high on my list of baby names, but I have it filed under Middle Names.

[ahavah]

I love the name, but the pronunciation does seem off to me too. Was it Evan-- like the boy's name Evan? I've heard it both Uh (Ah?)-VAN-juh-leen and Ee-VAN-juh-leen before.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I pronounce it E-van-gel-eene, and I love it. I'd love to use it and call her Eva. Mostly cause I like the name Eva (a-vah) but feel it's too trendy and too short, but makes a beautiful nickname. Husband's not into it though:( That lady's pronunciation of it, though...sucks. Makes an angelic name sound like a boy name...mixed with jelly, LOL.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

No, it was ee-van, not evan.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

No, she pronounced it the same way you did.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I like Evangeline enough. It's not a favorite. I've heard it pronounced with -line at the end instead of -leen too. I grew up with a kid who had a younger sister named Evangeline--she was a baby when we were kids, but still. We called her Eve or Evie.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I love the name Evangeline. I knew a girl in college named that. I think it's beautiful-sounding and I like the meaning too.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

That's a fairly common pronunciation of Evangeline. I like it either way. It's a beautiful name.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

I realise that. It's not the pronunciation, but the name itself. I had actually never heard the name before.

[opalgirl28.livejournal.com]

It's not a super-unusual name and probably originated with the poem of the same name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline), by Longfellow.

Ee-van-jel-een is how I've usually heard it pronounced where I come from. I like the name and the pronunciation (and it was used once in my family), but it holds a lot of meaning in my part of the world and I'm not sure I'd like to saddle a kid with it.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

The name reminds me of "Nanny McPhee". I kind of like it because of the character (and probably because of its similarity to Evelyn, at least in the nicknaming world), but it's such a long name.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Everything she said, +1.

I really like Evangeline. It is classic and lovely and relatively uncommon, at least compared to the all the Kaylees and Jaydens out there.

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

My BFF has a babe called Evangeline. (eh-van-gel-een), nickname Evie (ee-vee). I prefer it pronounced eh-van-ge-lynn to rhyme with Madelyn.

I'm not a fan of the name personally but people seem to like it. Meh.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

I can't stand it personally. It could be because there's this really annoying song in French Canada about this woman named Evangeline and the song really annoys the heck out of me. It was almost my youngest daughter's middle name. My sisters were in charge of choosing the name and they wanted to honor our Acadian heritage (because of the song) but they instead decided to honor me (Emilie) and go with Emma. I was very relieved!

[http://users.livejournal.com/-dahling-/]

I love it. I like it pronounced both ways- ee-van-jel-een and ee-van-je-lynn

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

I adore it. For a while, Evangeline and Genevieve were my top girl names. I was going to call them Lena and Gen.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Mmmm, I like Lena as a nn for Evangeline. Never thought of that!

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

It makes me think of the fire fly in "The Princess and the Frog," wasn't that the name the fire fly gave to the moon or a star or something? Haha.

Aside from that, I think it's a pretty name, lots of potential cute nicknames too!

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

I love Eva, but I could never use it on a daughter, as the first syllable of both my surnames form interesting words with -va (cow and vagabond).

[corielcries.livejournal.com]

Not the pronunciation I use, but I think Evangeline is gorgeous (I'm also slightly biased as it's my daughter's middle name).