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I love Athena. I think it's so much prettier than Alivia, and I find it more original and aesthetically pleasing than Olivia. I don't see why the 'th' is any harder to pronounce than the 'v'. Even so, I don't think anybody should choose not to use a name based on a pronunciation problem that the child will have for what, two years of their life at most? Athena is gorgeous. I smile every time I think of that name. Alivia will get her name misspelled and misheard for Olivia all the time, and she'll be amongst many Olivias. Athena will have a name that everybody has heard of but not many people have. It's a name that sounds conventional enough to American (or British or Australian) ears, but that still maintains its own flavour. It's quite possibly my favourite name.