Is Lilly Rose... too flowery?

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I really like the name Lilly Rose but DH reckons it's going overboard. We're definitely going with Lilly but we're kinda at a stalemate with the middle name! So, too flowery or not?!

I know a Lily-Rose

I don't like it but for no good reason, it's a perfectly nice name, just a bit girly for my tastes.

I love it, and I knew a lovely old lady called Lilly in my childhood. I think her name was Lillian, so the double L made sense.
I think Lilly Rose is beautiful.
it's true she may have to say 'it's Lilly with two Ls' a few thousand times, but so what? I am asked how to spell my name all the time.
So many names have a variant spelling anyway - Katy/Katy, Jon/John, etc.

I meant Katy/Katie obvs

Yes, and Lily is spelt wrong.

That awful, awful, stagey child with the unconvincing grin from Green Balloon club.

Sorry. I watch too much kids' TV.

I think it's lovely-the 2 names "flow" together well :)

There are 3 girls called Lily Rose at my daughters school so for that i'd be out!

Would she be Lily-rose or Lily and Rose as a middle name, that wouldn't be used to often?

I had to google 'Green Balloon Club' because I didn't have a clue what it was! I ended up spending waaaaay too much time on the Cbeebies website .

Like Dilys i always think of the little girl in The Family from One End Street. In the book she is named after a painting her mum saw in the Tate Gallery: "Carnation,Lily,Lily,Rose" by John Singer Sargent. Beautiful painting,we have the poster on our livingroom wall!

I have never heard of Green Ballon Club either. I love your reason for using an extra "l" in Lily, but unfortunately most people will assume you can't spell or it is short for Lillian.

I like the names, as long as they aren't hyphenated and Rose is used as a middle name.

Yes, Clawdy, and the Dad has to stop the Mum from calling her Lily Rose Carnation!

Love it but prefer it spelt like this - Lily Rose.

If you think it's too flowery what about Lily Mae. Lily May.

Another vote for lily with only one L. Rose is lovely as a first name but not middle IMO. Lily rose is an extremely popular choice here, almost every newborn lily I've met (work) is lily rose, and Every daisy is daisy may.? That said when I was at school everyones mn was Louise so maybe mn's are always more common.

Flower wise, I'd be going for marigold or petunia!

Flower wise, I'd be going for marigold or petunia!

I love Marigold! Have done ever since I read "Invitation To The Waltz" by Rosamond Lehmann about 20 years ago. DH vetoed it when I was pregnant though, due to the association with cows and rubber gloves. We had a boy anyway but I'd still love to have a little Marigold - to me (but nobody else) it's a glorious, sunny, radiant sounding name

OP, Lily Rose is a lovely name but people might think you copied it from the Green Balloon Club or from Lily Allen. Depends whether or not that bothers you, of course! Same for the Lilly/Lily spelling - some people would think it was a mis-spelling. If you want something similar but not quite as common, how about

Liliana Rose
Lilina Rose
Leilani Rosanne (could have nn Lily)