Ivy or Lillian?

[mamablondie]

Slowly narrowing down our girls list (I will stop posting I swear! It just took such a long time to agree on DD1)

Lillian would be nicknamed Lil/Lily

Ivy I just really like at the moment.

Don't like either of them.
Lily is much nicer than Lillian.
Ivy makes me think of Ivy Tilsley.

I think both are lovely. I can't easily choose between these but slightly prefer Lillian I think. (I do like the Lilian spelling more but Lillian spelling seems to be most used at the moment.)

Ivy! Love this name it’s classic but strong, not over-used and not too ‘flowery’
Oh hold on, kind of reminds me of an IV drip tho. Don’t let that put you off I’m sure you won’t x

I like them both but prefer Ivy.

I love Ivy ❤️ Perfect name!

@Mollie3 I had already thought of the IV drip thing! But I can’t decide if it bothers me or not aha

I have an Ivy so I'm biased. But this thread is the first time I've heard the comparison to and IV drip ha

Ivy reminds me of Ivy Tildsley too. But even without that it’s just awful. As bad as Enid, Edith, Ada, Ida. So many beautiful names in the world to choose from!

Lillian, it's such a wonderfully grown up name.

Seems like all girls' names at the moment end in either 'eee' or 'ah' sounds - be a bit different!

Ivy

Lillian is my mums name, she diaslikes so much she hardlu uses it. But tBH I prefer it to Ivy. I think of Ivy the terrible from Beano.

Ivy is nice enough but very very popular. Lilian is too close to the equally overused Lily, and I'm not keen tbh.

Ivy. Lilian a bit wet (sorry)

I prefer Lilian (that spelling, Lillian looks wrong) to Ivy.

Ivy. Too many Lily/Lilian/Lilia/Lillee/Lilith

@june2007 does your mum use Lily instead then? My rationale is I like Lily but it is so so popular, I wanted to give her the option of using Lillian/Lilian should there be 5 other Lily’s in her class.

@MrsBertBibby any other suggestions if I like these two? It’s funny because DD1’s name is in the top 30 and I encounter far more of them than Lily’s. I do know what you mean though, I posted a shortlist a little while ago but I’ve just gone off a lot of them ... it’s so hard!

What was the shortlist?

@NoSauce I literally love all of those names 😆

Ivy - lovely name

My best friend is a Lilian. She hates it - growing up she was called 'Lillette'

@bluemoon2468 I love the old fashioned, vintage sounding names also! I think they are quite marmite though you either love or hate them :)

@MrsBertBibby

Sofia
Violet
Florence
Holly
Imogen
Matilda

DD1 is Ruby and we are settled on Arthur for a boy if that gives you some idea of what we like.

I love Sofia and Violet

I'd go for Lily over Lilian OP, much nicer imo

Neither. Ivy is the least bad. Both sound dreary!