Lillymae?

[Tuesday811]

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

Ally, Leah and Hadley are sooooo much better. Hadley is unusual but I actually really like it and it’s like Hadley Freeman who writes for the Guardian.

Leah and Hadley are much better.

Ally - What would it be short for?

Lily/Lilly/Lillie - May/Mae/Mai is boring. Millions of them.
May and Rose are just filler names, and always used because 'named after a relative'

Ally would probably just be Ally - not short for anything in particular as there aren't any longer versions we love. Possibly Aliana or Alexis at a push

DH's cousin named her DD Lily-Mae. I love the name Lily but it is very popular and I don't like the hyphenation and it's put me off choosing Lily if we had a DD in future.

Leah is nice. Not keen on the others. Lily-Mae is perfect for a nice Jersey heifer. Does DH come from farming stock?

I agree with PP- I'd read Ally as al-eye, as in cooperative. Allie or Ali are both really nice.

I like Leah
Hadley is ok but prefer Harper
Allie....not sure

Lily is lovely but it would have to be Lily and not Lilymae

I’m not sure you’ll find anyone on Mumsnet that likes it and yet it is VERY popular.

^Only popular with certain demographics.

Anyway it is common and chavvy

Only popular with certain demographics.
Of this i would be inclined to agree.
Out of all the something-mae something-rai etc students I've taught, one has been different to expectations and typical associations.

It's a trend thing a bit like a few years ago when the school I was at had a glut of y8/9 girls with cs turned to ks with a smattering of h and ys for good measure.

So Courtney became khortnee and Nicole became nykhole.

Y7 were largely unaffected by this trend and it wasn't a thing in y10/11 either. Clearly a naming pattern that came into fashion and then went. The downside is that they're stuck with youneek spellings for life.

Leah is nice. Hadley sounds very American and try-hard. Allie is OK but sounds like a nickname. I would put a full name like Alice on the birth certificate.

Anything with a "Mae/May" sounds a bit meh, it's the default middle name for eleventy billion little girls.

Both names are lovely separately.

This week during the same shopping trip i heard "Nevaeh Mae" and "Denver Mae" being screeched at little girls ( both wearing blingy earrings and with hardly any hair ) and unfortunately i wasn't a bit surprised.

Lily and May are both good but putting them together (& your spelling) is soppy. Sounds like something you'd call a poodle or a rag doll with a bonnet, not a real live little girl.

You need to imagine it on an adult, as she will be one day.

And clearly it is absolutely ridiculous and naff.

There were several Chardonnays at dds old dance class it’s not an urban myth.

Anything that ends with Mae, I dislikeZ

Tuesday811 I knew a Hadley, although she will be in her 20's now. Lovely name to me with no negative connotations.

Lilymae in any shape or form, just no.

Ernest Hemingway's wife was Hadley, and so is my niece.
I like Leah the best of your list, or just Lily.

Nope. Don't do that to her. Lilly is ok alone as a first name.

Incredibly popular where I live. Double barrelled possibly but sounds the same.

Lilymae is dreadful. Ally is ok but should be short for something. Leah is nice. Hadley is ok.

Leah is good, not keen on Ally if it isn't short for anything. Hadley I really like - Hadley Richardson was Hemingway's first wife.

I would go for Lily May/Mae? Really like Ally, too!