Girls names, help!

[Eleonorex]

What do you think of the name Milú? I found 2 spellings, with or without the accent (Milu or Milú). If I chose the spelling without the accent would you still put the accent on the u when you pronounce it?

Also, what do you think of Lilibelle?

Thanks!

Is Milú from your home country op?

If so, I don't see a problem using it at all.

If not, I'd probably go with Milou, which I like very much. Lillabelle I don't like. Not because it is too unusual, but because it sounds OTT frilly/girly girl to me.

I have a mix of backgrounds and the passports to match . Feel like Jason Bourne a bit with my extra passports, but I'm definitely not as cool.

Mumsnet is more cosmopolitan than most british sites ime, but some people on the baby name board can be quite traditionalist, but we all like different things, as you say.

But obviously, if you don't like MN, you don't have to ask for opinions here . Name your baby what you love.

I'm near London too and MN is usually accused of being "too London centric" btw.

Lilibelle would suit a baby; it's not a good name for an adult woman who wants to be taken seriously! Lily or Belle by themselves are better. Milu is better although I wouldn't be 100% sure on the pronunciation

These are just silly names OP - you aren’t having a baby you’re having a person. No adult women wants to go through life being called Milou or Lillibelle (unless she is a stripper)

If you're open to suggestions, two of my favourite names are Miriam and Maria. I would possibly use if we ever had another girl (not very likely, so I will pass on my names to you ).

Can be shortened to Mia or Mimi (when little). There is also Mirabelle, which you might like. Not my thing, but it has more gravitas than Lilibelle.

Is you prefer short and snappy, my current favourite is Faye.

I would guess Milu to be a boy's name. Milou could be male or female.
It is similar to Milo and Mila, so would probably be a source of 'Do you mean Milo/Mila?' type questions.

Milu isn't a particularly nice looking name, and I wouldn't know if it was MIL-oo or Mil-OO, and some would probably say it as My-loo, which sounds a bit like 'My loo'.

Then again, not my baby.

Mila is nice.

I'm going to go against the grain and say I really like it. I think its pretty the sound is nice and I think as its unusual it won't matter if you have the accent or not as people will ask how to say it.

I am reminded of the Queen with lillibelle though she was lilbeth I know I just can't get past that so that's a no for me.

Op you got to remember that the majority of people like the classic names and due to that there will be more people leaning that way. My own children has all bar 1 got what I woild call unusual but not weird aka people know the names but likely first time they met one with that name.

@Eleonorex

I am wondering if on this forum there are only British people who likes classic British names? It just seems so.

Of course it's mainly a British site - but you know that already.

Which is why most switched-on posters who aren't just here longing to find something to flounce over would, for example, say we're thinking of using Milu, it's a name from X, we'd use it because we're X heritage on this side, it's pronounced like this with the accent, how would you pronounce it if you saw it without the accent... etc.

You seem to have deliberately tried to assume, for example, that the average reader here should know the difference in pronunciation with/without accent when you haven't even specified the language the name links to.

Goady. But if what you want to hear is a lot of sticky-mud dullards shouting that you should call her Olivia and be done with it, fine.

Call her Olivia, it's nicer than Snowy - sorry, I mean Milu.

Milu is a cute name but Lilibelle like others have said is overly frilly and girly and would definitely get shortened to lily or belle.

Ok, stop for a minute and think of your dd when she's a 35 year old woman with a job and she has the name Lilibelle. Still think that's a good idea?

I know baby name sites can talk a lot of shite, but the only place I can find any info on the origin of Milu is one which says it is of English origin. OP, are you able to tell us where the name comes from at all? Or have you gone forevaaaah?! I hope not. Honestly, MN can be fab. Stay!

@Eleonorex

Thanks you! I am not British and my husband is not British so it doesn't make sense to me to give a British name unless I liked the sound. I am open to anything that sounds nice. I also find quite surprising that giving London is a cosmopolitan city, people think kids would find strange to meet other kids with not British names. Well, I live in London at least, so...

Well, first of all this question is being answered by lots of people who don't live in London........

Most of us who live in Cities come across names from across the World all the time, but, as I said in my first post, if a family comes from another country, and their dc have names from their own culture, that is not strange at all. A huge % of children in my City have names that have not been traditionally British, but generally, when people ask on baby names threads with that in mind (as has been said by a previous poster), they tend to say 'We are not from the UK but will be living in London for a while, does this name work in English?' or 'If you saw this written down, how would you pronounce it' etc etc.
When people just say 'What do you think of the name...... X', then you tend to get different responses.