What do you think of Avery Ella (girl)
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What do you think of Avery Ella (girl)
| Tue, 04-26-2005 - 5:31pm |
I'm due Aug. 30th. We're having a girl! I love the name Avery but people are telling me since I have a 15 month old son named Aidan I shouldn't name our daughter Avery. They say it sounds to close. What do you think? And what do you think of Avery Ella?

I am due August 29 with a girl!
ANYWAY, I really like the name Avery, and I think of it almost exclusively as a girl's name. I think Avery Ella is quite nice, classy, sophisticated -- I vote it a winner.
As far as the Avery - Aidan thing, other than the fact that they both start with the "Ay" sound, they don't sound alike. The real test of a names similarity comes toward the middle part (if emphasized in pronouncination) and the end. The first syllable or sound being the same is nothing more than alliteration, which can sound nice, but has nothing to do with the nature of a rhyme, which is really what we're talking about here. I'll explain.
Here's the way I think of it: imagine you are yelling at the kids across the house (likely, what with two young ones...) Will it be easy to distinguish which name you're yelling? I vote yes because the real telling thing as far as name sounding similar is the LATTER part of the word. For example, I used to be on newspaper staff with an Ellis, Alex, and my name is Alyson (say Alyson outloud -- the "un" syllable is hardly recognizable with simple audible recognition -- AL-IS-un is how it really comes out. I get a lot of people who think my name is Alice). Anyway, that name situation was IMPOSSIBLE -- each of us answered to all three. Another example: My DH is named Ben, and in college, when professors would transition to a new idea and say, "THEN" loudly, he'd always look up startled thinking they'd caught him not paying attention. If you look at my previous posts, I was debating having a Will and a Milly, and I decided (using my yell across the house standard) that it is WAY too similar. But Ay-VER-EE and Ay-DEN? One is two syllables, one is three. One ends in a vowel sound, the other in a consonant. One has a hard vowel sound toward the end, the other has a soft sound. Would you worry about Kyle and Kim? Isabel and Ichabod? That's about how similar Avery and Aiden are to one another.
Okay, so I was an English major, and this was probably a much more than you bargained for..."Why, I like Avery for a girl and I don't think it sounds a lot like Aiden" was probably more what you were expecting...anyway, I just wanted to clarify my statement...okay, I'll quit talking now. Good luck.
Alyson
I think it's a beautiful name.
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I disagree about Aidan and Avery being too close - even though they both begin with a Long A - the D in Aidan and the V in Avery make for a big separation of those two names
I'm not a big Avery fan, but obviously we all have different tastes. I'm more concerned with the combo - Avery Ella - two vowel heavy, both names begin and end with vowels (Y might not actually be a vowel, but that's a vowel sound at the end of Avery)
also, the flow just isn't right.
how about: Avery Catherine, Avery Corinne, Avery Caitlin, Avery Colleen, Avery Danielle, Avery Kristin, Avery Christine, Avery Kathleen, Avery Lynelle, Avery Lynette, Avery Michelle, Avery Monique, Avery Nicole, Avery Joelle, Avery Jolene, Avery Janelle, Avery Suzanne, Avery Brielle, Avery Gisele - a few of them have that elle in that might be close to the idea of Ella
good luck