Lily-May, Kizzi-Leigh or Lexi-Jean?

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For a friends pfb. Middle name Anne.

What do you think? Which do you prefer?

Thanks.

OK,

My friend is LOVING Tia-Rose Anne and it's currently top of the list. I think it's lovely too, although she has weeks left so will probably change her mind.

Although my friends names are not to my taste I am genuinely surprised that almost everyone on this thread dislikes them as there really do seem to be many names like these about.

Current short-list. In order of preference:

Tia-Rose Anne
Kezia-Leigh Anne (NN Kizzi)
Lilia-Mai Anne
Jasmine-Skye Anne

Any more suggestions along these lines would be appreciated. Thank you for the feedback.

Also, apparently my dd's name is 'snobby' (Despite or name differences we are good friends).

Daphne-Rae
Maya-Rose
Freya-Grace
Summer-Jean

Eliza is snobby? It's a lovely name.

I would go with Lily/Lilia. Lily is a common name now, but that's because lots of people like it.

Lily-Grace Anne

Lilia-Grace sounds quite good together too.

Minnie-Jean
Jenny-Jo
Tilly-Sue
Gemma-Rose
Layla-Jane
Kitty-Louise

I think all the ones on your shortlist sound perfectly lovely, and you sound like a genuinely supportive friend

Tia-Rose is very pretty.

Just don't let her have Tia-Maria.

Lily-May is a pretty name, though a bit overused atm. Why don't you suggest Lily-Jean instead? A bit less common, and Jean is a bit cooler than May (which I love as a stand alone name, less so as a hyphenated one). Lily-Anne is quite pretty too, though maybe superfluous when you could just use Lillian.

The only one I really dislike is Kizzi-Leigh. Kizzi is a bit... well, mad, and Leigh is a name I really hate - it just looks like a noise.

Sorry, I shoud have read to the end of the thread

Tia-Rose is quite pretty. I do like Kezia and Lilia, they're lovely. Kezia-Rose would be great too.

How about:

Isla-Rose
Isla-Jean
Flora-May?

Tackle in 2 steps. Persuade her to go for lily-Anna, then persuade her to spell it liliana.

Tia-Rose makes me think of Tia-Maria

Kizzi reminds me of a character in Roots (I think she was a slave who was sold then raped and had a son called Chicken George? I could be wrong, it was a long time ago) so for me that would be a no-no

Why does the name HAVE to be hyphenated?

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Why is a hyphen necessary?

I think the hyphen shows that both names should be used together, and that the second in not a middle name.

is not

Kizzy was the gypsy child in the book the Diddacoi.

OP, I hope your friend doesn't google her name choices and find this thread.

Ah I meant why does the friend insist on using a hyphenated name.
Lilly-May is sweet.
Not keen on the others.

They aren't my taste at all but really, why should the OP persuade her friend to change a name style she loves into one preferred by Mumsnet? It's her baby and she'll be the one using the name 24-7. I've worked with all manner of crazy named people and really it's no biggy. The world is thankfully large enough to accommodate all tastes.

Missy-Mae anyone?

I have a very high IQ.
My dd was Sylvie-Rose.
But she died so at least people are less likely to make assumptions about my IQ.

If you look outside of the UK, loads of countries go for hyphenated names. France is an obvious one but also Germany. So many in the Sophia-Charlotta, Anna-Luise vein going on, and these are usually used by the upper-middle classes over there.

As I said, really not my taste but then again I'm not into 'classic' Katherine / Helena / Elizabeth type names either. So it's not a snobbery thing, it's a personal taste thing. I love wild, nature names. Lots don't. Heigh ho.

Sylvie-Rose is beautiful. Sorry for your loss.

I'm very sorry to hear about Sylvie-Rose. That's a really beautiful name.

OP I think the following are fine-

Tia-Rose
Lily-Rose (if a bit flowery)
Lily-May or Mae (Mai should be pronounced My like Thai IMHO)
Lily-Jean (LOVE Jean!)
Or any of the above with Lilia. Would she considers Lilian/ Lily-Anne instead of having Anne as the mn?

Fwiw I think my judgypants would be most likely to come on with Lexi-Whatever or Kezia/Kizzy-Whatever, although both of those are influence by real people I know -our school bully Alexia/Lexi and a professional associate (senior in a FTSE company so doing well for herself) called Kezia, who ate people for breakfast, especially other aspirant women.

We all have different tastes. I'm sure my DD's old lady name is far from to everyone's tastes.

Hate the name Lexi. Hyphenated names are anathema on MN!