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baroqueandblue · 09/10/2025 16:28

Me and my friend have a running joke about double-barreled Christian names. We put them into the sentence "Iya our - luv!" (said in a Shameless/Corrie accent - and before anyone starts, I'm from the North-West myself) and amuse ourselves.

I can't wait to show her a screenshot of this thread.

"Iya our Beau-Lilah luv!"

MrsTrellisOgleddCymru · 09/10/2025 16:26

Oh dear, no, just no.

PropertyD · 09/10/2025 16:24

Truly awful will be mispelt/mishear Have you been on the lemonades when you thought of this?

ChickenWingChickenWings · 09/10/2025 16:22

Sounds like a disease

Zanzara · 09/10/2025 16:22

Bumdrops · 09/10/2025 14:10

Honestly that’s the chavviest name I’ve seen / heard for a while -

OP - what are your thoughts ?

Said Bumdrops. 😂

Instructions · 09/10/2025 16:21

They're both nice enough names on their own, but combining them doesn't work well

LadySuzanne · 09/10/2025 16:21

Househassles · 09/10/2025 16:09

The only way I would do Beau for a girl is short for Isabeau. There are trad ways to get to Bo, too, if you want - Deborah, Bolina, Boleslava, Boann, Boadicea. Lilah (or Leila, Lila, Lyla) is fine on its own.

Layla is nice.

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 16:20

Jam-Beau-Lilah?

CaptainMyCaptain · 09/10/2025 16:19

No.

Coffeetime25 · 09/10/2025 16:19

DolphinOnASkateboard · 09/10/2025 16:00

Someone once told me that before you name a child you should consider how it will sound when they're made head of MI6, and yeah I'm not sure this one passes that particular test.

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lol like that one this def does not pass that test sounds more strip club then MI6 lol

Rosscameasdoody · 09/10/2025 16:19

Bloody awful. Get a grip and think of your child !!

CrystalShoe · 09/10/2025 16:18

OP, ignore al the snobbery. It's different, and she'd have the choice of using the whole thing, or just Beau, or just Lilah.

I know Beau is a boys name because beau means handsome in French, but we are not French, and it looks like the first half of Beautiful to an English eye. You use Beau for her if you want! It looks and sounds really feminine. I always really cringed when friends used it for a boy. Conjures up images of a sickly, delicate, boy of yesteryear with a lace ruffle around his neck! 😂

PSA: It would be pronounced Bow Ly-la.

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 16:13

cosyblankethome · 09/10/2025 16:10

It sounds like a breed of whale.

Yes, a baleen whale.

That could be a nice twist on Eileen : Bay-leen

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 16:11

Househassles · 09/10/2025 16:09

The only way I would do Beau for a girl is short for Isabeau. There are trad ways to get to Bo, too, if you want - Deborah, Bolina, Boleslava, Boann, Boadicea. Lilah (or Leila, Lila, Lyla) is fine on its own.

Boleslava?!

Are you sure you are not thinking of bowl of coleslaw?

PlayCertainGamesWinCertainPrizes · 09/10/2025 16:11

I guess maybe, if I hated my child?

cosyblankethome · 09/10/2025 16:10

It sounds like a breed of whale.

NearlyChocLogTime · 09/10/2025 16:10

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 09/10/2025 16:08

I'd just go for Delilah

Tom Jones comes to mind....

Househassles · 09/10/2025 16:09

The only way I would do Beau for a girl is short for Isabeau. There are trad ways to get to Bo, too, if you want - Deborah, Bolina, Boleslava, Boann, Boadicea. Lilah (or Leila, Lila, Lyla) is fine on its own.

Chesticov · 09/10/2025 16:09

OP is having us on guffaw guffaw

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 09/10/2025 16:08

I'd just go for Delilah

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 16:07

NearlyChocLogTime · 09/10/2025 16:05

Except it's Bo Peep.

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On this thread we are being yoonique.

NearlyChocLogTime · 09/10/2025 16:06

Can we go back to

Anne
Mary
Jane
Susan

And all the other normal names please.

Iamnotalemming · 09/10/2025 16:06

Argh thanks for the ear worm:

My, my, my, Beau-Lilah...
Why, oh, why, Beau-Lilah ...

NearlyChocLogTime · 09/10/2025 16:05

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 16:04

Little Beau-Peep has lost her sheep ...

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Except it's Bo Peep.

KitWyn · 09/10/2025 16:04

ThatshallotBaby · 09/10/2025 15:33

@w9828971
I like it. I think it’s pretty and musical, Don’t worry about what other people think though, the only person’s opinions that ever truly matters is your own.

If you are choosing a new name, to change your own to by deed poll, that's fair.

But the child risks having a name that is likely to result in her being teased at school, or not being taken seriously as an adult. So, I would very gently suggest the OP has another think.

I would not have been happy at all if I were named what is proposed. My life as a redhead with NHS glasses, who loved maths the most, was already difficult enough at school! The teasing from being named a word meaning beautiful, would have been horrific.

(Edit for ungainly wording in final paragraph. Sorry!)