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[Vintagelady88]

Hello mums and mums to be. Looking for inspiration for girls names. Happy for suggestions but what is everyone's thoughts on two that me and my hubby like so far:

Lily-Sophia or Freya Rose????

I like double barrel names and that sound very feminine and pretty.

Thank you!!!!

If you like double barrel names i think Sophie-Rose works better than either of the combos you have there

Sophie Rose is lovely are you putting a hyphen in the name?

Freya Rose, is different and lovely .

@MammieBear I think I would use a hyphen so people know for sure it's a double barrel name and that the second name isn't just a middle name. :)

Thank you everyone so far for your comments!!

Keep them coming...

Why double barrel rather than a longer name, out of interest? There are some glorious very feminine and pretty names.

The trouble with the names you've mentioned is that they're very popular, particularly as part of a double-barrelled name. That may not bother you, but when you are one of a few in your class you use your surname or initial as well and that makes a long name even longer.

I'm not keen on the rhythm of Lily-Sophia as it sounds like it should be Lilyso-Phia. Sophia-Lily would be more elegant - or indeed Sophia on its own is lovely. Similar sounds would be Seraphina meaning angel which I think is really stylish and pretty.

Freya-Rose is a pretty popular combination so I find it a bit boring and I also don't think it's particularly pretty/feminine. Freya was a strong and fierce Norse goddess so you could look at other goddess/mythology names like Andromeda, Ariadne, Aphrodite, Ianthe, Penelope, Selena or Xanthe.

Lily Belle
Lily Grace
Lily Alice
Lily Aurora
Lily Fae
Lily Frances
Lily Marie
Lily Jo
Lily Beth
Lily
Lily Alexandra

Freya Jasmine
Freya Poppy
Freya Josephine
Freya Darcie
Freya Mary

@MrsHathaway not completely set on having a double-barrel name, open to any pretty feminine name, even long ones. I do really like Seraphina, not over used and little different whilst sounding pretty at the same time.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider thank you for all your lovely name suggestions. :)

If you want to double the names together, I think it might look better if one was a plainer name, otherwise it might start to look a bit too fancy.
Or the names could be joined together instead of using the hyphen.
Rose-Marie /Rosemarie
Marie-Anne / Marianne / Anna-Maria / Marianna
Rose-Anna / Rosanna / Anna-Rose
Lily-Anne / Liliana / Lilian

I like them better without the hyphen. Freya Rose or Freya Sophie would be nice.

I prefer them unhyphenated and separate names, tbh. You can always call them by both names, but life is much easier (form-filling etc) with a simpler first name with no punctuation.

Freya Rose is my favourite of your suggestions. Very pretty indeed.

Other very feminine pretty names:
Bluebell
Annabel
Josephine
Lilith
Evangeline
Trixie
Lucinda
Cicely or Cecily
Marianne