Variation of Lily?

[duckloves]

So we love the name Lily and even though it's getting quite popular we still really like it. Yesterday going through nameberry for inspiration this name came up on a completely unrelated thread to the name Lily.

Lilium

What do you think? Is it a realistic alternative? I do like the -um bit quite a lot even though I can't explain why

Thanks xxx

Lilette makes me think of Lil-lets tampons

It is made up. I can think of real life examples of similarly made up names (word+wen), but it would out them. Chances are there are one or two Lilwens and no Liliwen. If you speak Welsh, you will see and hear why it doesn't work.

I made up Lilette, aware that it sounded like a product, but there is someone who has that as their name.

I could say Lilette is a French name, but it isn't. Lisette is and is pretty.
Lis is lily.

@MikeUniformMike

Just google it it's on almost all of the baby name sites, and It's 2000 and something on the ONS for 2017.

@MikeUniformMike

Mae Lilwen yn enw, gallwch chi gwneud enwau lan. Bydd e’n well os fydd hyphen yn y enw? Mae blodyn (lily) wen yn enw bert felly does dim ots.

Lilla had a vogue in the thirties

@3LittleMonkeyz, @footprintsintheslow,
look at that image. It lists Llian as a name.

Llian is Towel.

It also has Aberfa - great, Berfa is Wheelbarrow,
Aelwyd - Hearth
Amser - Time
Anwyn - Starvation
Arthes - She-bear
Berth - Shrub, Bush
Bregus - Fragile, Frail
Bron - Breast

I'm only on B, and if you can't see that there is something wrong with that list, then I hope your children are delighted with their names.

I think I'd rather not be called Breast or Bush.

Lilah
Leila
Lola

Liliana is nice

@MikeUniformMike communicating with you is like dealing with a flat earth believer. Exhausting and pointless.

Which part of " there is something wrong with that list" are you struggling with?

The list you quoted from has entries that are awful.

If being a "flat earth believer" stops someone being called something apalling then surely that is no bad thing.

Someone might look at a list like that one, pick a name because it looks pretty, and the meaning it gives perfectly nice. Poor child would end up being named Slug.

Argue if you like, but it is on there.