Hi there,
Hubby and I have settled on a girl's name- it's pronounced Ayvin. I'm just not sure how I want to spell it.
I want to spell it Aven, but I'm concerned she'll have problems with people pronouncing it like Avon (like Avon Descent, not the cosmetics company- soft 'a'). So I was thinking Aiven makes it a bit clearer?
What do you think?
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20-03-2015 10:24 #1
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20-03-2015 10:26 #2
Aiven.
Or Ayvin.
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20-03-2015 10:26 #3
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Lovely.
Avyn is an option too.
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I would just spell it Aven. I don't think there's much that can go wrong with the pronunciation. Aiven is ok-ish, but I think Aven looks nicer.
Anything with a Y in there looks ridiculous and youneek IMO.
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20-03-2015 11:20 #5
Keep it simple, go with Aven.
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20-03-2015 11:41 #6
I would go Aven.
To be honest I think she will always be telling people how to spell and pronounce her name.
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20-03-2015 13:29 #7
Name spelling
Looking at it I would pronounce Aven like Oven but with an A so if you want the the 'Ay' sound I would spell it Aiven or Ayven.
Last edited by BabyG4; 21-03-2015 at 16:32.
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21-03-2015 15:35 #8
Agree with BabyG4. I would go Aiven or Ayven because I read it as ah-ven.
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21-03-2015 17:33 #9
Aiven is lovely.
People have pronounced my name incorrectly, all my life (It's a 4 letter name, with 2 pronunciations).
Even after mum added a 'y' (informally), people still got it wrong.
It has never, ever, bothered me, and has just become routine to say, "Oh, it's X", and people usually get it soon after.
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21-03-2015 17:45 #10
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I would go with Aven.
It follows the same spelling/pronunciation rules as Haven and Raven...when I read it, I pronounced it "ayven", so I don't think you can really go wrong with Aven.
It's nice
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