Please no more

[Fairenuff]

I know so many Lily-Mae variations it's getting complicated. I don't know why but there seems to have been an explosion and so many different spellings.

Lily
Lilly
Lilli
Lillie

Then is there a hyphen or are they separate names?

May
Mae
Mai

I know several between the ages of 7 and newborn. What is this recent craze.

Maybe it's time for Edna, Gladys and Sybil to become popular again.

Lily-May

Within my friend group there is a Mabel, Percy and an Ida x

And a Stan and an Albert. Love the old names coming back. Funnily enough, no Lillys in my sons class

I know two Stanleys and one Albert.

I know a Stanley. An Elsie, Ada, Mabel and Pearl.

I only know one Lily.

Willing for any name to knock Oliver off the top spot. It is a nice name but my god there are a lot of them. It’s just boring now.

Never mind Lily-May... If I see another child with the middle name Rose I’m going to scream! 😂😂😂

It’s none of my business of course, but it’s driving me absolutely bonkers. I won’t be surprised if my daughter is the only girl in her class without Rose as her middle name!

It's a trend.
It's not just Lily, there's Lilia, Lila, Isla, Lola, Lyra, Layla, ... Liliana.
Other trends are the Eva names - Eve, Evie, Ava, Adea, Ida,Evelyn, Edie...Olivia.
The Ellie names, Elle, Ella, Bella, ...-elle, -ella.
The A names - Aurelia, Aurora, Arabella, ...

Lots of Ls, Vs and vowels.

Boy's names popular seem to be surnames, biblical names or anything ending in o. Again, lots of vowels.

When I was at school, Ann(e) or Jane were the popular middle names, and lots of names ended in -anne (Joanne, Suzanne, Leanne..).

Ada, not Adea.

It's funny cos when I was growing up I liked all the names that are popular now and they were very unusual then, no one had them but that was also part of the appeal for me I liked unusual names.
And now all the names I liked are really popular!

Another trend is the long names for boys, with or without a 'nn'.
Long names for girls but known as a nn.

Lengthening names just to go on a bc like Annie but Annabelle on bc.

Does anyone remember the 'What can Hugo be nn for thread?'

"Filler" middle names like Rose, Grace, and May are the Louise/Anne/Jane of the past generation. Of course, everyone says "Oh, it's after my great-great-grandmother" but... still boring.

I think this is dying out but it was very popular when my older DC were born in 2011 and 2012, they have a couple of Lily-Mae’s in their classes. Also Ellie-Mae. Mae/May and Grace are super common middle names for some reason.

Love Edna may, Sybil May and Gladyis May!

There was half the number of Lily’s born in 2018 than were born in 2011. Numbers have dramatically reduced year-on-year for past 9 years. I don’t know any baby Lily’s round here.

I don’t know a Lily (or any other spelling of it) at any toddler groups we go too or among friends.. Ava & Isla are really popular in my neck of the woods!

My little girl has Mae as a middle name..it’s pretty & she was born in May. We couldn’t think of anything else 🙈 it’s not hyphenated, it’s just a middle, no-one ever uses it!

People get in such a huff about middle names, who cares?! I can’t remember the last time anyone ever used mine!

Lillee Mey, surely?

Will Clyde ever reappear?
Or Kenneth?

My little girl's middle name is Mai. I'm welsh and we picked an English first name and a middle name to reflect the welsh heritage. It fits well with her first name.
I'm not sure why you're bothered, just don't call your own kids that name!

I thought Lily-Mae was popular anout 10 years ago, and now there are more old lady names. My dd has the middle name Rose. It is very popular because it is beautiful.