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Layla Raine

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whoput50penceintheeejit · 11/08/2022 19:56

Expecting a Dd what do you think of Layla Raine

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Craver · 12/08/2022 16:56

Drag Queen comes to mind to be honest.

Luxa · 12/08/2022 16:49

I like Layla on its own, but Layla Raine sounds like Lay Lorraine.

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/08/2022 16:27

DillonPanthersTexas · 11/08/2022 20:04

Great if she wants to be a future Love Island contestant.

Unfortunately this is what it sounds like

Leila is nice though

Leila Rosanna maybe?

RestingMurderousFace · 12/08/2022 05:41

100% pornstar.

MiddleParking · 12/08/2022 04:38

ClivePowermax · 12/08/2022 00:00

Not really. Not everyone's sheltered.

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😂 not everyone is, but the people commenting ‘stripper name’ on the mumsnet baby name section definitely are

Kanaloa · 12/08/2022 02:35

chubbachub · 12/08/2022 00:01

Agreed.

It's a made up name.

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Layla? Is an Arabic name, relatively well known. It’s not made up just because some sneering mumsnetters think it’s a ‘chavvy stripper name.’

BreadInCaptivity · 12/08/2022 02:24

ladydimitrescu · 11/08/2022 20:08

Stripper.

Nailed it.

JasmineVioletRose · 12/08/2022 02:10

No. Not Raine.

wizzler · 12/08/2022 01:16

@Louise0701 I am indeed

Enko · 12/08/2022 00:15

Also. Thought lana del ray. Not a bad connection

I particularly like Raine it was on our short list

Silverfinch · 12/08/2022 00:14

Sounds like a porn star.

Louise0701 · 12/08/2022 00:11

@wizzler haha! I’ve just said it out loud and now I’m wondering if you’re from South Yorkshire like me as I too make it sound like Lay Lorraine 😂

Louise0701 · 12/08/2022 00:10

Stripper name.

wizzler · 12/08/2022 00:07

Where I live it would be pronounced Lay Lorraine which is not, I assume, what you are hoping for

midsomermurderess · 12/08/2022 00:06

Oh come on! It’s a sneer, not a brush with reality.

chubbachub · 12/08/2022 00:01

eddiemairswife · 11/08/2022 20:54

Porn star /drag queen.

Agreed.

It's a made up name.

ClivePowermax · 12/08/2022 00:00

midsomermurderess · 11/08/2022 23:48

Odd how so many women on here are so familiar with strippers.

Not really. Not everyone's sheltered.

midsomermurderess · 11/08/2022 23:48

Odd how so many women on here are so familiar with strippers.

Kanaloa · 11/08/2022 22:52

Layla is a lovely name. I’m not sure I would go for Raine with it - they seem to almost rhyme/sound awkward together. However, middle names are rarely used, so I always think if there’s an unusual name you like that’s where I’d use it.

eddiemairswife · 11/08/2022 22:50

I think Raine was Diana's stepmother. Her mother 'the bolter' was Frances.

Footbal · 11/08/2022 21:27

Love Layla. Don't like Raine as a second name though.

Imissmoominmama · 11/08/2022 21:26

Both lovely names, but they take on a different feel when put together, if that makes sense?

Eric Clapton was singing about Layla around 50 years ago, so it’s hardly modern!!

Weefreetiffany · 11/08/2022 21:23

Like the many pp my first though was also sounds like a stripper. Sorry op

MrsMop1964 · 11/08/2022 21:22

Not for me. (By the by, wasn't Raine Princess Diana's mother's name?)

Loulou1712 · 11/08/2022 21:21

I have a friend who's daughter is Layla Rae Jefferson, I've always said she sounds like a country singer! In the nicest possible way

Love Layla and the spelling variations x

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