Our name choices don’t seem very liked

@Needmorelego , @Jugjug , Walk on the Wild Side, Lola and Copacabana are immortal. They don't go away.
None of them give a positive take on the name for a girl.

the Kinks Lola is such a brilliant song - my sons specialism at karaoke!!

I do think they have a ‘touch of the night glamour’ about them as my gran used to say - but are actually pretty names too .

Really? Song came out in 1970 and I wasn’t born until 2001. Feels like something that will never die.

I know what you mean though when I named my daughter my father was going on about “she’ll be bullied” because of a really old song that no one genuinely will know under 60

Whose name is actually Bernadette.

Not sure Barry Manilow is set to have a career resurgence a la Rick Astley.

Yes but who actually reads the book these days?
Very very few people would make that connection.
Anyway the OP decided on Lila instead.

But I am not really sure what song "Lola" is from so will the current babies of the world know in 10 years time?

To me it’s because the songs so catchy I can imagine other kids singing it at any prospective daughter I had.
I started puberty really early and was picked on for being hairy called a man etc. so maybe that’s why I’m sensitive about it

@Jugjug , it literally isn't. The literary character was Dolores, shortened to literally both Lola and Lolita. Lolita is literally little Lola.

It's weird because no one bats an eyelid at the name Frank.
Also a transvestite.
(Or or rather a Sweet Trans-vestite from Trans-sexualvainia 💋)

I also have no idea who Gigi is.
I absolutely love the name Lola but could never use it because of the song about a transvestite. Lolita would not spring to mind it’s literally a different word!

Two works of fiction that are barely on the radar of the majority of people. Personally when I see Lolita I don’t see Lola, and I have no idea who Gigi is as a literary character.

I would be interested to know where the OP lives. Some of these responses are very Little England but in a more multicultural or global place I doubt anyone would bat an eyelid.

DD has been at school variously with a Percy and a Princess, a River and an Arthur, a Nevaeh (Heaven spelled backwards) and a Mohammed. All just names to her generation.

@Calliopespa I understand this, and have some sympathy for posters pointing out the associations they have with the names and in-fact the OP has taken this on board and changed Lola to Lila for this very reason.
Unfortunately very many posters have solely criticised the names because they are girly, and not serious names for grown women preventing the girls from being Doctors or Lawyers.

It isn't because they are cutesy or girly at all: it's because of two works of literature which centre on two girls, one called Gigi who is being groomed as a prostitute, and the other Lola or Lolita who is the subject of a paedophile's fantasy.

It's not misogynistic to think those associations, reinforced as they are by being strung together in a mouthful, are problematic.

I think one without the other probably works ok: I think the children's cartoon Charlie and Lola was fine.

But placed side by side the brain, which tends to work by association (fish and chips, Laurel and Hardy, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility), immediately links the two works for those who know of them.

@lemonadelouis , the names in question are not very feminine/ girly, they sound like pets' names to me.

@DuchessOfNarcissex That a woman with a very feminine/ girly name can be educated, intelligent, rational and responsible is absolutely not a matter of opinion!

It’s your choice but they unfortunately do have a certain feel to them to English language people due to use in certain “industries” in fiction etc. they seem more like nicknames, but I’m British. I love Gabrielle

@lemonadelouis , it’s frankly ridiculous to suggest otherwise. In your opinion.

Gigi and Lila are much better together OP. If you’d have asked that question at beginning, I would have said they were perfectly fine. I actually prefer Lila as a name so hopefully (minus the overly negative posts) it’s been helpful overall!

I think all your names, first and middle are lovely. I teach primary and neither Lola or Gigi would raise an eyebrow at all. As the mother of a Doctor with a cutesy girl name I too am amazed at the misogyny on this thread because that’s what it is. If you don’t think your daughters can be taken seriously or considered educated or authoritative and responsible because of a girly name you are saying women are less than men. It should be perfectly possible to be a woman called Bonnie who has all of these attributes and decides your surgery or reads the news , it’s frankly ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

It's a shame because I also can see how they sound cute together. they do if they are kittens or poodles.

I think they are both brilliant names and I wouldn't change either of them at all

I used to work with a doctor called Gigi. She was great and there was no problem.

I'm afraid I wondered the same op.

The two together does kind of reinforce the literary references.

It's a shame because I also can see how they sound cute together.

The middle names are lovely: could you use them as BC names?

Alternatively, give them longer names they are short for? Genevieve for instance? Just don't go for Lolita! ETA Or Dolores!

@ToeJob , because if you saw the name Gabrielle, you would immediately think it was going to be shortened to Gigi, not Gabby, Gaby or Gab, and Lola was always short for Apolline never Dolores. Obvious really. Not.