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I guessed that Tova would sound like toe + va, TOHva; this site confirms that. And it puts me right off. No doubt it'd work just fine in Israel, but in an English-speaking environment ... I'm fond of toes, but they aren't the most popular body part for some reason.

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I like Greta very much, provided it's got a short e, as if it were Gretta. And I think of it as an independent name, not a nn for Margaret (which I also love and would use rather than Greta, since it's a family name).