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Guinevere is a gorgeous name! I think that Evie could certainly be used as a nickname for it, but I would still be more inclined to call her Guin / Gwen if I must use a nickname at all.

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Seraphina is another gorgeous name that I love.

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Guinevere & Seraphina make a lovely sister set : )

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Suggestions:
Angelina / Angeline
Arabella
Arcadia
Artemis / Artemisia
Aurelia
Belphoebe
Cassandra
Catalina
Ceridwen
Claudia
Cordelia
Eleanor
Francesca
Harmonia
Heloise
Jessenia
Josephine
Julietta
Kyrielle
Liliana
Lorelei
Luciana
Lucinda
Marguerite
Matilda / Mathilde
Meredith
Mirabel / Mirabelle
Miranda
Ophelia
Rhiannon
Sapphira
Sophronia
Stelara
Sunniva
Sybella / Sybilla / Sibylla
Viviana / Vivienne

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I would not do Evie as a nickname for Guinevere; it feels uncommonly contrived, and this comes from someone who fell in love with Evening solely to give Evey a full name. ^^; (I like it for many more reasons now, but at the beginning of our affair, the main reason I grabbed onto it was "I can't do Eve/Evelyn/Eveline/etc, but I have to have some way to make note of Evey Hammond, who has taken over my brain, and damn everyone else for liking her name, too." Lulz.)

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Personally, I think that Winnie is the cutest possible nickname for Guinnevere (the spelling I prefer--blame a certain supergroup). That seems less forced to me because it has some precedence; in The Wonder Years, Winnie Cooper's full name was Gwendolyn, and what's good for a Gwen name is good for a Guin name, IMO. On the other hand, with Evie...well, it's getting very popular, and Guinevere "Evie" loses all cute points by sounding as though the parents decided they wanted both the nickname of the moment and something really unusual that would set their baby apart.

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Guinevere and Seraphina sound fine together, but they're not two I'd choose. To me, their length starts to sound a bit overwrought and pretentious when they sit next to each other. But on the other hand, I am instinctively drawn to short names--to stuff that is so countrified and unpretentious that it might even manage to go the whole way 'round and end up pretentious again. So that's a personal aesthetic thing. I'm sure they'd work out fine; I just would prefer they were Guinnevere and Serafina, and would like them best if one or both was a middle name. ;)

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I love Guinevere. I wouldn't use the nn Evie for it, but it's nice just the same. (I'd prefer Guinevere to stand on it's own, and Evie to be a nn for Evening, Eve, Evelyn, ect) Guinevere and Seraphina make a lovely sister set!

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-Lulu

Oh, I love you! You just solved a dillemna of mine!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Right, so the dillemna was, I love the Guinevere (love it very much, to answer your question) but I can't stand the nn Gwen, which was the only one I could think of. Anyway, I absolutely adore Evie (to answer your other question) and thus my problem is solved. So thank you! And yes, I think Guinevere and Seraphina, and another sister, to steal from your signature (full of names that I love; you rock my socks!) could be Ophelia, or Catarina or Vivienne. That's all I can think of at the moment.

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I think that yes, you can use the nn Evie and that "Evie" and Seraphina sound wonderful as a sibset. :-) And I love the name Guinevere!

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