Lydia

[MissMoodyMoo]

Still kind of obsessing over a name so seem to be posting nearly every day about new ones that pop into my head for opinions 🙈 anyway...
whilst watching TV earlier my hubby randomly came out with the name Lydia, I was pretty shocked as it's the first decent name he has suggested I actually really like it and it's growing on me but is it too old ladyish?

It's beautiful

It's gorgeous. Classic, easy to pronounce in any language and not too common.

Love it. Not a fan of "lids" which is the shortening of all the ones I know so you may want to have a nn up your sleeve if you aren't a fan either!

I really like Lydia, old ladyish is a classy kind of way not ugly like Vera or Edna etc

Love it. Very classy.

in a classy kind of way not is

Yes it's old ladyish but Its also current.
and There's not too many of them.

Keep thinking of Lizzie Bennet’s little sister.

Love Lydia it's a beautiful name

I love Lydia. I know 3 though, all under 5, so it might be becoming common.
As pp said default nickname seems to be Lyds, which I’m not keen on. One of the ones I know is nn lyddie though.

Hate it.

A) Lydia Bennett

B) the noise of it bawled from the back of the bus. LIDDEEUH!

Reminds me of Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice - very cool. There's a Lydia in my daughter's nursery too.

I love it! It’s classic and won’t date as it’s not massively popular, but not rare enough that she’ll have issues with people never having heard it

I love it, it was my girl name but I had two boys so wasn’t able to use it!

Beautiful

I like it a lot.

It's a lovely name.

I love it.

I really loved it for a long time until my brain (for some weird reason) made the link Lydia-Chlamydia, and now I can't undo it. It's still a beautiful, strong name.

Love love love love.

Was going to use it as a middle name, but then DS turned out to have a winky

Then by the time DD turned up we preferred name ending in -ia for her first name, so Lydia was out. I’m still slightly sad.

But it is definitely growing in popularity. It’s now inside the top 100.

Lydia the tattooed lady! Can't hear the name without that song getting stuck in my head...

It's a lovely name. Classic and elegant. And not very common (only 1 Lydia in my DCs huge primary school).

I take it you haven't been watching the hand maids tale

I love the name Lydia. It has never crossed my mind that it's an old lady name

I absolutely loved Lydia until the Handmaids Tale and now Aunt Lydia is kind of an insult for a certain type of bossy, controlling, right wing woman it was levelled at Trumps Press Secretary recently

Mind you I recently made a friend called Lydia and she's a darling