Lily Rose

[mumofnoahandjacob]

What do you think of Lily Rose?
Would use Lily Rose all the time but dislike hyphens.
The name came to me suddenly and sounds really pretty the more I say it.
Look forward to hearing your opinions.

Are you sure you just haven't hear the many others with the name? If you like it use it.

It does sound ok but I have a double barrel first name myself and don't like it. Both names are nicer individually imo, but I'm biased as I have a Lily!

Massively popular. It’s pretty but every other child is called it.

Loads of them about and no one will remember to use both names unless you link them

I also have a Lily and I like it.
Most people will shorten it to just lily later on I would think-and in our case Lil (which is what all her friends call her) and you might get comments about having two flower names together but if you like it then it's perfectly fine.

I like both names independently, but together they are too flowery.

Boring. Lily and rose are both super common now. Popular common I mean

There's one (with hyphen) in DC's class. It makes me think of a hybrid flower.

Both beautiful names separately.

I like it.

I know 3 - 2 with hyphens and 1 as first/middle name.

I like it. Simple & classic. It's flowery but not twee.

Painfully boring and predictable I'm afraid..

Rose as a first name isn’t actually that common, it is much more popular as a middle name though.

If you name your child Lily Rose then people won’t use the middle name. They will just say Lily.

Really boring , common and plain.

Both perfectly OK names but not very exciting.

And by the way, almost nobody will ever say "Lily Rose" after the first introduction. Everyone will say "Lily" and there are a lot of Lilys about. And very few teenagers would tolerate being called "Lily Rose".

Very common. I know three.

Its fine. Very over-used.

The Rose as the second part of the name is beyond over-used.

I'm sure you can do better.

It’s very common, and she will not be introducing herself as the rather twee sounding Lily Rose, hyphen or no hyphen, when she’s a teenager that’s for sure.

Inoffensive but like calling your child Sarah or Claire in the 80s

I really like it. And agree don’t use hyphen

@WineOrGin @Fookadook
Lily actually is declining in popularity. It reached its peak about ten years ago. It’s now well outside the top 10 names. There’s no lily’s In any of the playgroups round here (and I go to a lot)

Don’t believe me, look at the graphs based on government ONS data/

names.darkgreener.com/#lily

I assume the people in this group have older children with older friends. I don’t know one Lily (my children are both under 4 so were born after Lily vacated the top 10). It’s not like naming your child sarah in the 1980s because sarah was the no 1 name then! Lily is number 13. The equivalent name now is Olivia as that’s number 1

@MsTSwift sorry meant to @ you in the above message. What name was number 13 in the 1980s as that’s the equivalent. It’s not equivalent to sarah. Plus lily is on a downward trajectory now which is really important to consider as it’s only going to be even less popular when OPs baby is born!

I guess, like everything else it depends on where you live too.

Where I am I know very few Jack/Amelia/Oliver/Olivia under 10 despite them being massively popular on the stats board yet it seems every second child I meet (I've worked in childcare for almost 18 years so I know a lot of them!) is called Brodie/Brody or Isla.

The Lily Rose/Lily-Rose I know are 3, 5 and 9.

Too popular