Is this too much of a mouthful?

[MultipleMama]

Ilya Louvel.

I really like Louvel as a middle name for baby-to-be but would this be a mouthful?

First named pronounced eel-YAH (Russian).

How often would a child be saying both of there names out loud? My three year old has no idea he has a middle name never mind what it is.

She'll have more bother explaining to people that it isn't pronounced the same way as Isla.

ARGH meant #their

It does depend on whether you are ever really going to say it. I gave DD middle names but tbh we never, ever say them. Which is good because the length of all over names sounds a bit overkill - 5-syllable first name, 2-syllable then 1 syllable middle names, 2 syllable surname. It's a lot when you say it all together! But in RL you actually don't.

You've all just answered my question (thread I just posted)

Ilya is a beautiful name.

Is it for a boy or a girl?
How do you pronounce louvel?

I'm not sure tbh - I would go for a more conventional middle name so that they can use it when they are older if they don't like having an unusual name

Ilya is a boys name, shurely?

Agree- both are boy's names, Brisket
Don't think OP mentioned gender, tho others have done.

The meaning of Louvel is quite jolly - 'little wolf'.

It's a surname in France (Loo-vehl), related to the English surnames 'Lowell' and 'Lovell'.

Agree also that we rarely say first name and middle name together.

I've only heard ilya as a boy's name but the op didn't say and other posters think it's a girl's name, so either way there would be confusion.

Yes, Ilya is a boy's name. It's the Russian varient of Elijah :)

Flora has the correct pronuncation of Louvel, and I adore the French meaning I love wolves and my beautiful dc are my little cubs .

Thank you for the replies. It's settled; it's at the top of the list .

Great names, love Louvel.

My DCs have 11, 8, and 9 syllables in their full names (all got 2 middle names). The older two love their long names (both have very short first names), the one year old has not yet expressed an opinion.

Love Ilya, not heard Louvel before but love the meaning!

Thank you. It's actually a name DH and I actually 100% agree on.

We love Ilya Louvel and, I like Ilya Konstantin, DH likes Ilya Augustus.

Beautiful name. If I saw it written on my class list I would expect a girl but that's only my ignorance of the name and, once I knew he was a boy, there would be no more problem.

I think people think it's a girl's name due to it ending in 'a' and some mispronounce it (ill-ya), but luckily I live where pronunciation is important so easily learnt

Only issue I can see is that "il y a" in French (pronounced ilYA, like your chosen first name) means "there is" so the baby's full name in French would be "there is a little wolf" - not a massive deal maybe but worth considering?

I thought was pronounced like Isla and for a girl but I am unfamiliar with Russian names

I Think it's nice and it's not like you'll call her by her full name 100 times a day.

Not worth considering to me because "i ly a" is a french expression, and spelling "i lya a" as "Ilya" takes away the meaning of the expression, so it would no longer be there is/there are. IMO anyway.

Strange - It's a boy's name. It's the Russian variant of Elijah. But thank you, I think it's nice too :)

And louvel is boy's name.