Lydia or Imogen?

[fourplusonemore]

Due our third DD in three weeks and I'm still having a hard time deciding on a name between DH and I. We have two DD's with names ending in an 'ah' sound. Would Lydia be too matchy? What's your favourite?

I’m nowhere near posh, but pronounce Lydia with “-ah” at the end rather than “-uh”. I know quite a few, and all pronounced that way where we live. Both are lovely names OP.

I have a Lydia and her gma calls her Lyddy. It drives me nuts doesn't help that her voice goes up 3 octaves when she does it, like she's calling a puppy. My sister calls her Lyds which I prefer but in reality most people use her full name.

Both lovely names, but if I had to choose it would be Imogen. Could you have a nn of Jen rather than Immy?

Really don't like Lydia. I think it will date badly.
Imogen is lovely.

If anything, Imogen will be the one which will date, it has increased in popularity since 1996 whereas Lydia has decreased in popularity and hasn't been as popular as Imogen (Imogen is given to almost 3 x more girls than Lydia).

Lydia, Immy as a nn has to be the most sickly, twee, puke inducing of all, errugh.

Not as bad as Emmie, rosealltheway. Now that is sickly. I'm not keen on Immy either. Ruins a beautiful name.

They are both lovely names, you can’t go wrong. I’ve never come across Imie as a nickname for Imogen, but then I only know one Imogen & she is called by her full name.

Lydia Elise

Definitely 'uh' ending. Names ending with a

I still think it's fine. Loads of girl's names end in "a" so it doesnt look particularly like you chose a deliberate pattern.

They are both OK names but wouldn't be my personal choice. I prefer Lydia. And Imogen seems to have gone from being rarely used now to loads of them.

Lydia.

Both are nice, prefer Lydia a little though. I guess wait and see what she suits!

Lydia Elise is the name of a you tuber who a lot of people find annoying. You may just want to do due diligence on that... but it’s a lovely name!

Imogen.

It always amazes me how rude people are about names on these threads knowing full well that others will have chosen whatever it is they deem "dowdy" or "twee" or on other threads "chavvy ". There's no need for it.

DD2 was going to be Lydia, until she miraculously turned into Matilda by the time she’d left theatre!

Imogen is very popular.

Lydia is rarer... and nicer.

Lydia Jayne or Imogen Elise

Both Lydia and Imogen are fairly popular names so you won’t go wrong with either but they probably won’t be the only ones in their year at school!

Lydia. Too many little 'Immies' about at the moment.

Imogen

Love lydia

Lydia. Pretty and elegant. It has never been overly popular.
Imogen sounds harsh to me, and there are loads around at the moment. I think it will date badly.

Lydia is nicer than Imogen. Imogens are two a penny these days and the name's lost whatever charm it might have had.

Definitely Imogen if the others end in a. I have friends who have three girls all ending in a - sounds like a Disney movie.
-may also be influenced by knowing two sneery Lydias-