Well... My real name is
EVANGELINE
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: e-VAN-je-leen [key]
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Means "good news" from Greek eu "good" and angelma "news, message".
(SO COOL MEANING!!!!!) I already LOVED my name, but now I love it even more! *See pronunciation, noone seems to be able to pronounce it right. )

But everyone calls me
(I mean really, this is not just a nickname, no one ever calls me Evangeline. I HATE!!!!! It when people find out my real name and want to call me Angie or Vangie, sorry, but I hate those names.)

EVA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Russian, Czech
Pronounced: EE-va, (this one<<)AY-vah (Italian), E-vah (Spanish) [key]
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Latinate form of EVE (I also hate the name Eve.)

When I breed and show dals, my kennel name will be Longfellow after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote the long poem Evangeline, where my mom first saw my name. (I thank him for that) my dad first saw my name on a headstone in a cemetery!
edit: in 1990, the year I was born, it ranked 820 for female names in the us. Thts good, I like uncomon names!