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Help! Something like Lydia?

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speak2me · 02/02/2015 21:45

Help!

DC2 is due in 5 weeks and the girls name we had picked (for over 2.5yrs since DS born) has just been used by a new friend that lives opposite us!
The name which we can't use is Lydia, middle name will be Frances, and needs to go with DS name Timothy.
I hadn't even considered other girls names this time round as it was always going to be this name, please help with some suggestions!

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treaclesoda · 02/02/2015 21:47

Leah?

GingerLDN · 02/02/2015 21:48

Livia, Lilia

SillyBub · 02/02/2015 21:49

Erin

MessyRedHair · 02/02/2015 21:50

Delia (cordelia) or
Celia
Della / delilah
Edel

Lois
Lindsay

UrchinMadeOfAcne · 02/02/2015 21:52

Lyla pronounced lie-la

BellaBearisWideAwake · 02/02/2015 21:54

Kitty

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speak2me · 02/02/2015 21:54

Thanks for suggestions - doesn't have to sound like Lydia just in the same style I guess?

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Beckie222 · 02/02/2015 21:58

Libby

BellaBearisWideAwake · 02/02/2015 21:59

Fwiw I don't see why you can't use Lydia!

NorthernLAS · 02/02/2015 22:00

Caitlin?

capercaillie · 02/02/2015 22:00

Ellen
Alice
Cordelia
Verity
Helena

SillyBub · 02/02/2015 22:00

Harriet

wigglesrock · 02/02/2015 22:01

I always think of Lydia and Sylvie as similar type names - Daphne, Claudia?

TheyLearnedFromBrian · 02/02/2015 22:02

Lavinia

eckythumpenallthat · 02/02/2015 22:03

Stick with Lydia of it was always they choice.who's to say you can't use it?! Blush

JellyMould · 02/02/2015 22:03

I would use Lydia!

ChippyMinton · 02/02/2015 22:03

Rosemary
Jennifer
Amanda
Helen
Susan
Julia
Philippa
Alison
Louisa

Violettadoesthekondo · 02/02/2015 22:04

Martha
Claudia
Clara
Lottie
Violet
Hannah

Fozzleyplum · 02/02/2015 22:07

Lorna

Fozzleyplum · 02/02/2015 22:08

or Honor

DramaAlpaca · 02/02/2015 22:10

Just use Lydia.

You may not always live opposite them or even be friends with them.

Bakeoffcakes · 02/02/2015 22:10

Just use it. I'd tell your friends that it's been your chosen name for 2.5 years.

We decided on DD2 name 3 years before she was born. I wouldn't have changed it for anyone.

Bakeoffcakes · 02/02/2015 22:11

None of these names areas nice as Lydia I am biased

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speak2me · 02/02/2015 22:11

I'd love to still used Lydia but we're in a fairly small community and it would be rather awkward, they'd probably end up in the same class at school!

I quite like Verity but think it would sound odd with DS being Timothy, - not sure I like both of them ending in -ee.

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LovelyWeatherForDucks · 02/02/2015 22:12

Names I think that have a similar feel -

Megan
Jessica
Harriet
Clara
Josephine

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