Until today I had no idea that the name "
Ava" was so popular.
For about 4 or 5 years now I have loved the name
Eva and if I ever have a daughter I would probably name her that. I have liked the name since I was a freshman in high school (9 years ago!) and a girl in my Spanish class had that name. But about 4 years ago I started listening the songstress
Eva Cassidy and even though
Cassidy was her surname, I thought that
Cassidy would be a lovely middle name for an
Eva.
Nearly everytime I would tell someone about the name, they would have to ask me twice what it was and how it was spelled because they hadn't heard of it. I pronounce it "Eyv-ah."
When I see the name
Ava, I think of "
Ava Maria." So that's my question. Is it pronounced "Ah-Vah" or "Eyv-Ah?"