Lila and Lily?!

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Expecting our 3rd girl, and our oldest girl who is 3 is absolutely adamant we need to call this baby Lily. The problem is, she is called Lila...we can't have a Lila and a Lily can we?! (Middle daughter has an unrelated name starting with a different letter)

Way too similar. I wouldn't be letting my 3 year decide either. She will have forgotten next week. Congrats to you :)

No you can't. Use Lily as a middle name.

I wouldn't as they are far too similar but I would use Lily as a middle name. We chose 3 or 4 names we liked then let DD1 choose DD2's name from those as we were happy with any of them.

I should probably add that Lila is pronounced 'lie-la' (not lee-la), so slightly different sound to Lily. But the answers above probably still apply I would imagine!

did she say why she wanted Lily or is it just because it’s close to her name?

This would be daft.

She's just been calling the baby Lily for the past few months (for no apparent reason!) 😂. When we tell her Lily is too similar to Lila she won't have it and gets very annoyed!

It's completely insane to hand over responsibility for choosing your child's name to your 3 yo.

They’re far too similar, and your 3 year old doesn’t get to name the baby. Let her get annoyed.

We are absolutely not handing over responsibility at all, and quite willing to upset her- inevitably she'll forget about it soon enough.
We do however like the name Lily too, but I suspected it was far too similar to Lila, and comments here have confirmed that!

Too similar, it will be very confusing. Also you don't want the little one to think she has an unoriginal name.

Yeah you can’t do that.
Are there any names that Lily could be a nickname for that you could use?

They're both pretty names, but I agree with PP that they are too similar.

It's funny how toddlers get set on a name... my DS 2 was very firm that DD should be called "Timmy brown", our surname is not Brown. 🤷🏻‍♀️
He mentioned it several times a day in my pregnancy. When she was born we told him her name (surprisingly not Timmy Brown), he accepted it and we haven't heard any more of Timmy brown since then...

Use it as a middle name.

our oldest girl who is 3 is absolutely adamant we need to call this baby Lily
3 year olds don't get to decide.

Having a Lila and a Lily in the same family is ridiculous OP. You know that - otherwise you wouldn't be asking.

I asked my 4 and 2 yr olds what our new baby should be called.
Lola they said. Hmm quite nice I thought. ‘What if it’s a boy?’ I asked them. Charlie was the reply.
That’s when I realised they were just picking names from CBeebies.

T’was soon forgotten when the baby was born and named and they never mentioned Charlie or Lola again.

Anyway, our little Tinky-Winky is doing great and my advice is to choose your own name and not ask the children.

Lila, Lola and Lily would make a fine set of sisters.
Little Lila should not be getting a say.

Well that answers that then! Thanks all

I know twins called Lily and Lila. Can’t get my head around it personally.

It’d sound daft, IMO.

BiggFactHunt
I would have had children named Whoopi, Harlem, PomPom and Samantha if I had listened to DD1.

Interesting mix mathanxiety
Love the normality of Samantha against the others

I know twins called that

I think they are too similar