I don't care if cousins are named exactly the same thing.
I do pronounce
Ava and
Eva the same and consider them basically the same name, like I would
Katelyn vs
Caitlin. Technically
Eva is EH-vah, but in my accent that's pretty indistinguishable from AY-vuh.
I slightly prefer the
Eva spelling, maybe because I like
Eve or maybe because it seems more traditional and international, plus I don't like that
Ava reminds me of
Ave. However, I'm not sure which I'd actually use IRL, if I had to, since
Ava seems so much more expected nowadays, where I live, and it'd feel simpler to just pick that.
I have a cousin with a preteen daughter named
Ava. I thought it was a boring choice but not a bad one.
This message was edited 8/16/2023, 7:24 PM