Lily,Lila or Lilia

[cornelia1]

Which option is the best? What do you think?

I love Lilia not so keen on the others weirdly as obviously all very similar!

Lily :)

No need to "gild the lily" by altering such a lovely name.

Another vote for Lily, at Towndon - agree completely. Plus with the other two you will run into "how exactly do you pronounce that?"

Prefer Lilia (or the older Polish spelling of Lilja)

Lily is a beautiful name and my favourite from your choices, but it is very popular now, there are six in DD's nursery. If that's not a problem, go for it.

Lilia would be my second choice.

Love lilia. There are loads of Lily's about here.

Love them all, especially Lilia x

Got to be Lily, beautiful name

DD is Lily with Charlotte as a second name so she could be Lily-Charlotte if she wanted to or even Charlie...so I am a bit partial to Lily!

lilia

Lily

I like Lila

I like Lily and Lilia though would go for the latter as Lily is much more popular.

Lily's such a pretty name but there are four in my DD's class. Lilia is lovely.

Lilia sounds like a sanitary towel.

DELHI

Lily. yes it is the most common by far, but it is also a lovely, simple, classic name.

Lila is a bit made-up sounding. Leila is nicer.

Lilia sounds vaguely Eastern European. OK, but doesnt grab me.

Lily. I know it's popular but it's still a lovely name.

Lilian, then shorten as you wish.

I would go for Lila as Lily so overused IMO. I like Leonie (pronounced La-o-ney) personally - bit different. Knew one at school and she was very cool.

I have a Lily and she has a fabulous personality and is ultra cute!!!

I have a lovely Lilah (pronounced like Deliah). This is a traditional victorian name (origins persian I think), popular at the same time Florence's etc were around in 1890s or so. So pretty, traditional and not made up!

I have a Lila, it's a very pretty name with very old origins meaning playful in an ancient language Sanskrit. Lily and Lilia both very lovely names, although I think Lilia has too many syllables for the number of letters, and my only issue with Lily is the number of little girls with that name. I chose Lila Erin thinking I was onto a winning combination of not too common and not too unusual...then a colleague and his wife had a baby girl 6 months later and named her Lyla! (a long standing choice for them, and we had never discussed names!) so, as long as you live far enough away from us that we won't have matching Lila's I think you should go with that :-)

p.s. my first ever post on here, didn't expect to find Lila on the threads!

I know a Lilia and think its lovely. Lily is lovely too but very popular, Lila is more unusual.

I have a niece called Lilia, 4 weeks old and this is the only other time I have heard the name...

whereas every third child in school seems to be called Lily...

Depends whether you're going for different, popular, or just what you like!