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I really dislike Evelina. Too long, too elaborate, too frilly, kind of elf-like…

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Eva is beautiful, though.

I prefer Evelyn (EEVlin); Evelina is inconveniently long and I don't enjoy the rhythm.

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My aunt was named Eva; I asked my grandmother why, and she said "She was our first child, and we liked the fact that Eva has no nickname forms". I asked if they'd have named a boy baby Adam, and she was very startled: clearly, that had never occurred to them. Then my aunt came in and offered to make tea; Gran said "Yes, please, Eve" wihout blinking, and I said nothing.

Eva would work with the pronunciation "Ee-vah-lee-nuh" (neither of which I like). I prefer Eh-vuh-leen-uh, with the nickname Lena.

I like Eva and Evalina, but not so much evelina