Fight over names.. Whose are better, mine or his? Juniper or Jane...

[CoralieConfused]

Ok, my top 3 girls names:
Juniper
Evangeline
Lilias

DP's:
Jane
Violetta
Constance

Compromise seems hard

He hates Xanthe :(

Lilias isn't North London!

I LOVE LINNET SO MUCH!

OP,

Are you pronouncing Violetta as "Vi-o-LETT-a", or "Vee-o-LETT-a" ?

Just checking: I fell for the 2nd pronunciation (Italian), on having "The Small Miracle" (Paul Gallico) read to me as a child. Beautiful, poignant story.

Hadn't heard of Lilias before, but it's very pretty. Different. And I like the Scottish connection.

Big fan of interesting/ less usual names, but I think you'd need to be a feisty, very confident kid to handle "Juniper".
Yet PPs mentioned it's becoming popular, so perhaps I'm wrong there?

I think they're all awful apart from Jane, sorry!

Alas, he thinks it sounds silly

^ Blimey, slow typist...thread's moved quick! Will catch up and get back to you.

I love Hebe.
Hebe Constance Jane.

So, now that I remembered to refresh the pages...

Really like Marina and Estella from Mini's alternatives, too sorry not helpful

I'd love Marina as a middle name - it has family significance

Lilias is pretty, but unfortunately has associations with, er, feminine sanitary products.

Jane is the only one from the original list that I like, but could do with a more spectacular name to go with it.

Mercy is a virtue name that I don't often come across.

Marina is lovely.

I just don't get the Lilets connection either, so again it doesn't bother me

There used to be a brand of sanitary towel called Lilia, as well as the tampons. You obviously don't remember it, but lots of people will.

Ah well. I actually don't care tbh, it doesn't relate to Lilias at all for me

I really am worried by the xenophobia shown on some of these pages towards names from non-English cultures.

Lilias is a Scottish version of 'Lilian', which is a name that's been known since the 16th century, if not before. It's a derivative of 'Elizabeth', not of the flower name 'Lily'.

It is pronounced 'Leehl-eeh-uss'.

It has (of course) nothing to do with Lilets. The popular English flower name Lily/Lili is much closer to that, but is still very popular. Strange how none of the critics of Lilias mention that ...

Marina is lovely, as a first name. Mirabelle is nice from someone else's list.

Why not call her June rather than Juniper (it'll get shortened anyway) friends of mine had a DD last week in May and called her June.

29 out of all the virtue names Mercy is awful and no wonder it's not often come across (unless you're a bible basher)!

Agreed also in a way re child not turning out like the virtue name.

Sorrel is lovely. I know a tree/plant based name that's really pretty and unusual but gone out of my head will post if I think of it.

Mercy isn't "awful", it's just not to your taste.
I don't like Sorrel, but I wouldn't call it awful.

Jane, that's all.

florascotianew

I'm aware of the origins of Lilias, as it is a name that occurs a few times in my father's family. I like it better than Lily. I think it's going a bit far to accuse people of xenophobia.

It's surely reasonable to draw attention to possible associations that names might have? People are free to disregard them if they wish.

Jane. Best on the list, and very underused.

You said your surname begins with B, not Berry is it?

29 Mercy to me (considering most people know the meaning) is awful...

But that's my opinion.

I think we have the same taste OP, other than Evangeline! Love Juniper and January in particular. I'm also a big fan of Lilias and have many in my family tree. Pronuciation isn't straightforward though. I see that flora has given one above, but the ones I have come across were pronounced Leeliss. Standard Scots pronunciation and historical spellings would tend to support this, e.g Lillas, Lilless.

I knew one old lady who pronounced her name along the lines of Tobias, and the modern pronunciation appears to be Lily-iss. I'd just go for Juniper myself!

Just throwing this in here...Juniper Tanith

Haha no, surname is not Berry!