Thoughts of Lilia

[winemumm]

Just found out I'm having a baby girl, DH loves the name Lily but I'm not so fond and found myself swaying towards Lilia. What do people thing and is there many Lilias out there?

No. Lily is nice.

It sounds like a brand of handwash or something to me, I'm afraid.

I love Lillia. Would use two ll’s though..

My mum suggested Lilia for DD2 (9) because it was the name of a dancer she liked on Strictly. I didn't go for it because I wasn't sure it was a real name. (And because of the tacky TV show connotations I suppose, though that particular Lilia is probably long forgotten now.) Baby naming sites seemed to think it was Latin and meant lily, but the word is actually lilium and lilia is the plural, and this bothered me. We went for a traditional name instead.

I prefer it to Lily.

Popular in Slavic countries. I like it more than Lily, but not as much as Lilian.

I have a cousin Lilia who's in her 50s so it doesn't seem made-up to me, but I don't love it. Prefer Lily or Lilian.

It’s a very pretty name, I know a few.

Lilian is beautiful, That's a good suggestion.

Very nice name imo. I know one, spelled Liliha.

I live Lilia

Sorry... love

I know a lovely Lillia. Beautiful and unusual, people always comment on it positively.

Popular in Arab countries too.

Beautiful

Growing up it was a brand of tampons and that is always my immediate first thought. Lily is lovely though.

It makes me think of sanitary towels.

Nope. Brand of sanitary towels when I was growing up.

Lily or Lilian are both fine.

I know a Liliana nn Lilia

Don't like it. It sounds incomplete, but frilly, at the same time.

I love Lilian/Lillian, and think Lily is very pretty, but Lilia and Liliana don't do it for me.

I love it and the spelling you're thinking of.