Honest thoughts

[Dreame2019]

My two daughters are called Lyla and Violet. While i love both names I worry I have made a mistake.
Please can you give me your honest thoughts about what commented that will face when they are kids/grown up so I can prepare myself?
My youngest is older than 1 so I can't change her name.

It's from the oasis song hey Lyla x

I googled 'Lyla' Didn't remember Oasis wrote a song about Lyla.
Anyway this is what I found:
What does Lyla mean?
The first and most commonly considered is that Lyla developed as a feminine twist on the Scottish surname Lyle. Lyle comes from the Anglo-Norman word “l'isle” meaning 'island.' Therefore, Lyla has come to mean 'island girl.' The other origin is from the Arabic name Leila which means “night.”

Very nice names @Dreame2019 don't fret.

They’re both beautiful names. I particularly love Violet!

Love Violet, prefer Lyra to Lyla which is a bit like lilo.

I think they are fine.

OP, in the nicest possible way, you are overthinking.

They are beautiful names. Absolutely nothing to worry about. And they are individuals and won’t be classed as ‘names together’

My girls names sound terrible together. But this is the first time I have even given it a thought. They are separate people so it doesn’t matter. I love their names individually

I think they're lovely together, both meaning the colour violet/lilac/Lyla (Lila is German for violet).

Love them both, would sound unusual in our generation but when they grow up they will have fairly common names!

As they go through life this will become a total non-issue, because they won't be a pair, they'll be individuals. And people will know their actual names, not the mispronunciation. Don't worry about it.

Two lovely names, nothing to worry about at all. You’re being a silly billy, OP 🙂

They won't be introducing themselves as a pair for much longer - don't worry it's all good

Nothing wrong with either of those names, nice normal names!

You are always going to get people who don't like particular names snd make comments- just ignore them, rude feckers.

I adore the name Violet ☺️. Lyla is really pretty too...your girls will thank you when they are older OP, for giving them such beautiful names 💓

I think they're pretty and nothing at all objectionable about them. Like a previous poster I'm wondering if there's something else making you anxious?

I have suffered quite badly with PND and OCD after my second child and I second guess what people are thinking about me and I worry about that I've set the girls up for ridicule.

Violet is lovely.

Both gorgeous names, and they sound good together. My friend has a Lyla and it's beautiful on her. Try and put it out of your head and enjoy them xxx

They are perfectly good names and sound fine together.

I'm sorry you've had such a tough time. Are you still able to access treatment, it sounds like you still need counselling.

Brits (I am one, albeit an immigrant to elsewhere now) have a real cultural tendency to make silly comments about names. Oh, it rhymes with this and that. Oh, it sounds like lilac. Oh, it reminds me of [insert very tenuously linked 'rude' word]. Just ignore! As per a PP above, neither are names I would have chosen, but they're pretty mainstream atm, I think.

Your daughters' names are good, together or solo. I didn't even make the connection about purple flowers - I thought you meant the names may be too rhymy. I'm Scottish, and like bluerussian I thought Lyla was a girl version of Lyle, nothing to do with lilacs.

If it helps at all - I have a childhood friend who is one of four siblings, all girls: Leslie, Hilary, Eden, and Robyn. Those are two quite matchy pairs, but all four of those girls grew up to be her own person. Stand up for your girls if anyone does say shite about their names. There's nothing bad or wrong about your choices.

If people drop their Ts, the names could rhyme.
Some will say Violet as Vilet and with the glottal stop it would rhyme with Lyla.

It is laziness on their part. Enunciate both names correctly and it's not an issue.

Thank you all for your comments. No matter how much I seek reassurance from my friends and family I always think they are telling me what I want to hear and they are not being honest. I wanted (needed) to hear that the girls would not be ridiculed for their names. I also worry that they are too rhymey but it is good that most of you think they are just normal names. I wanted to do the best for them.

They are lovely names and go fine together. It’s just one person mishearing the name.

They're lovely names.