Athena or Lydia?

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DH finally gave in last night and said "if you want Lydia that badly, I don't mind. Call her Lydia, and she'll be beautiful"

However, we also really like Athena and I'm unsure what's nicer, Athena or Lydia?

I'll save the repeat topic of middle names for another date

Lydia's been in the top 100 for over a decade, and still very popular. It cannot bother people in reality. I don't know any Lydias who have been teased for their names. Once people reached the age of being aware of what Chlamydia was, you'd hope they'd know better.

Athena is more popular than I though, comparatively speaking, that is. It's just ok. I prefer Lydia.

I like Lydia best, it is beautiful. Athena is the 80s shop for me (so uncultured!) but also lovely.

I also think it's silly to avoid names because they rhyme with something bad. Do we have to avoid Charlotte (harlot), Sue (loo, poo), Jane (pain),etc etc?

Lydia. That other name is weird.

Lydia. It's beautiful.

Athena

It's my favourite girls name but doesn't go with our surname

Athena. It's beautiful

Lydia is beautiful.

Lydia

Both are very pretty. I Have never come across the Lydia chlamydia thing either

They're both lovely names. Leda is a great suggestion.

Athena is pretty well known as a mythological character, I'd say.

I'm laughing at Milly Willy, Frank the Wank, Sue the Poo etc

Lydia - lovely name.

Athena.. Means The Greek Godess of love.. Beautiful name

She's actually the Greek goddess of wisdom and war. Aphrodite is love.

Ah right.. 😮 my Greek friend told me that obviously got mixed up

Lydia - but I'm biased as I have a 9 yr old so far she has never had the clamydia comments. Her nn at home is Lula

I loved her name from the off and that has never changed ( sometimes wish I'd been braver with dd1)

Lydia definitely, I've known a couple wnd Lydia clamydia never occurred

Athena - love it.

Lydia's OK but I just find it a bit insipid in comparison. The chlamydia thing never occurred to me though!

I love Lydia and would never have linked it with chlamydia!

There are so many beautiful names of Greek origin - some must be due a revival: Penelope, Chloe, Iris, Helen, Phaedra, Phoebe, Hermione, Melissa, Thea...

Athena

Athena is too much.

Lydia is ok, but I prefer Leda, as someone as suggested.

My daughter came this close to being called Linnéa (or Linnea)... if she'd been a twin, we likely would have used it.

What about Mary? I hear it's coming back.

I have a Lydia. Never heard of the clamydia thing other than on here. I know a couple of older Lydia's who never got called it either. When naming her though I did like Orla and the Oral thing put me off that.

I'm going to be 100% bias as my beautiful daughter is called Lydia. We always get comments about how lovely the name is. I also have to say that no one has ever tried to rhyme it or even mentioned the fact it rhymes.

Lydia is lovely. Athena is too 'try hard' imo.

I've always liked Lydia but DH as soon as I said it mentioned the chlamydia thing.
What about Lina? ThAts sort of a combination of both