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Lillymae?

97 replies

Tuesday811 · 01/11/2018 08:54

What does everyone think of Lillymae?
DP suggested it, I'm not too sure
Thanks!

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cheesefield · 01/11/2018 09:31

No no no no no.

QuantamBaby · 01/11/2018 09:34

Lily is beautiful.
May is beautiful.
Lilymae sounds to my ears very twee (and looks like you can't spell)..

SparkyBlue · 01/11/2018 09:42

I am not Fan of the current trend to stick Mae or Mai into names. Lots of Molly Maes and Lilly Mais and Ellie Mais around here.

Another2day · 01/11/2018 10:01

I don't like it.

TatianaLarina · 01/11/2018 10:13
MarthasGinYard · 01/11/2018 10:19

Grim

daisypond · 01/11/2018 10:28

Lillymae as one word is very odd.
Lily May is nice. Lily Mae is OK. Or even spelled Lilly is OK.
Lilian
Lilias
Liliana
Lilianne
Rosalie
Romilly
Millie.

expatmigrant · 01/11/2018 10:45

Lily or Mae...not added together

Littlechocola · 01/11/2018 10:50

Stand in any park or supermarket and you will hear someone screaming ‘Lily may’ at the top of their voice. Sister to Chardonnay.

What else is on the list?

Sexnotgender · 01/11/2018 10:54

Not a fan.

Lily is a lovely name.

The trend of adding May/Mae onto every little girls name has been done to death.

MrsGollach · 01/11/2018 10:56

Just no.

I like Lily.

LethalWhite · 01/11/2018 11:04

Lily is lovely and classic
May is lovely and classic

Lillymae is
a. Spelt wrongly, people will assume you are illiterate
B. Chavy

Apply this to any traditional first name hyphenated with a gutters hakf sound, e.g

Ellie-Mai
Georgia-Rae
Matilda-Rai
Molly-Mae
Amelia-Rae

All awful and chavvy. Spell names the correct way and avoid hyphens if you want a name that won’t raise eyebrows

Dlux · 01/11/2018 11:05

Stand in any park or supermarket and you will hear someone screaming ‘Lily may’ at the top of their voice. Sister to Chardonnay. @Littlechocola 😅😂

Dlux · 01/11/2018 11:06

Surely nobody is called Chardonnay?!!

anitagreen · 01/11/2018 11:07

It's too common

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 01/11/2018 11:09

No, no, no. It is super chavvy.

Mae/May on it's own is much prettier (and acceptable I would have thought)

BuffaloCauliflower · 01/11/2018 11:09

Dlux unfortunately they are

Dlux · 01/11/2018 11:14

@BuffaloCauliflower 😮😮😮😮

Losingthechubrub · 01/11/2018 11:25

I don't like it, and I have a relative with the hyphenated version (hyphenated names are one of my pet hates). Separately, they are both pretty names, but I prefer May to Mae.

LavenderBush · 01/11/2018 11:30

If she has a brother then you can call him Billybob.

TheLastNigel · 01/11/2018 11:56

 I have DD's with both these names (individually, not as one name). I like them as names in their own right (and Mae is the old English spelling as it goes and the old English diminutive name for the Hawthorn flowers-not an Americanism as it goes-' cast n'er a clout til Mae be out' etc etc). Put Together as one name they Aren't so great though...

LethalWhite · 01/11/2018 11:59

TheLastNigel - i had great aunts called Lily and May, so lovely

Another2day · 01/11/2018 12:01

If she has a brother then you can call him Billybob. 

Another2day · 01/11/2018 12:02

There should have been an emoji after that, sorry 

LazyDaisyMaisie · 01/11/2018 12:03

Twee, pathetic, spelt incorrectly, ‘yooniq’ yet common.

Absolutely nothing going for it.

Lily - fine.
May - boring but fine.

Lillymae - an abomination.

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