Really struggling with girls names - help!!

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As the title says we are really struggling with girls names. We like classic girls names but none are standing out. We loved violet but with my accent it sounds like ‘vile - it’. Loved Juliet but DH cousins name so a no go. Anyone know anything similar? Surname ends in an -ee sounds so names like Emily / Ottilee are out. This is the short list:

Lauren
Lylah
Olivia ( bit overused ?)
Evelyn (is it also overused and have a niece called Evanne)

Argh why is it so hard! Hoping someone can come up with something we haven’t thought of!

How about something like:

Eloise
Livian
Luella
Joslyn
Milana
Nicolette
Veronika
Victoria

I have a Juliette. Other names on my list were:
Anna
Nina
Camille
Zoé
Célia
Rosanna
Gloria
Iris
Tina
Jane
Marianne
Marion
Judith
Julia
Nathalie
Rebecca
Mary

Or just go with Juliet, a cousin ain't that close.

Lauren - I like it, maybe slightly dated but it's a lovely name and she'd be unlikely to have another in her year at school
Lylah - I find all the Lyla, Layla, Leila names so full. Really dislike your spelling too sorry
Olivia - charts shoe it's popular but I only know one young Olivia (she's 6).
Evelyn - I know 2 so not overly popularly really. It's a nice classic. I do know quite a few Eva's / Evie's though

Celeste
Estelle
Genevieve
Alice
Annabel
Grace
Olive
Amelia

Lauren - lovely
Lylah - not for me
Olivia - lovely (this is why it's popular)
Evelyn - not my taste

Also you might consider:

Alexandra
Sacha
Susannah
Megan
Amanda
Charlotte
Zoe
Meredith
Agatha
Caroline

Thanks guys, I like Iris, Alice, Amelia so will add those to the list.

Other ones just won’t work - Annabelle no good as there’s an Isabelle in the family.

I agree @17caterpillars1mouse re spelling of Lylah but my best friend has a lily and I didn’t want to go with Lilah as too similar even though they’re pronounced differently. It sounds the nicest with our surname though which is why we thought we could compromise on spelling.

@ButterRose @ozzyfroggy I’ll run your lists past DH. Unfortunately our friends have used a good few of them. It took us years to get pregnant so it feels like all the good names are gone 😂😂

Lindsay
Lara
Tamara
Katherine
Philippa or Pippa
Tessa
Lucinda
Hannah

Astrid
Tamsin
Nina
Edith

Freya
Clara
Helena
Beatrice
Meredith
Dulcie
Tessa
Hannah
Eleanor

Laurel
Erin
Edith
Martha
Iris
Noa
Florence
Adrienne

Thanks everyone for taking the time. I will run these all past DH as there’s some names on them we hadn’t thought of. Unfortunately nothing that stands out to me!! Don’t know why it’s so hard - we came up with two boys names we loved in about 15 minutes!!

Anyone any thoughts on the shortlist?

Olwyn

Lauren always preferred Laura to Lauren
Lylah - not to my taste
Olivia ( bit overused ?) - okay
Evelyn - okay

Suggestions:
Naomi
Emilia
Hannah
Freya
Marnie
Esther
Eliza

I only like Lauren from your shortlist. Please don't add Amelia. It's a medical term for 'absence of limbs' and it sounds so ugly 'uh- MEALY-uh'. Juliet is lovely and I wouldn't think a cousin was too close to use the name.

Thanks @halfsiesonapotnoodle re Amelia. I didn’t know that.

DH had unfortunately vetoed Juliet.

Our friends have used Eliza, Freya, Hannah and Esther believe it or not! We are so late having kids they all have 2-3 children so nice names are running out. I like Naomi thanks - will add it to the list.

Sorry I probably sound like I’m moaning or being too fussy when you’ve all taken the time to put names in, but I feel meh about all the names including our shortlist - bar Lylah which I worry is too faddy.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Faye

I'd put that in the underused classic category.

Lauren is nice but a bit boring imo.
Lylah I like but I'd probably spell it lyla, there's no need for the h.
Olivia is very popular round our way so i suppose it just depends how much that would bother you.
Evelyn is pretty, my friends just called her DD Everly.

What about Cora, Lydia, Della, Eleanor, Rosa.

The only Olivia I know is now in her early 20's so maybe the popularity is a regional thing?
I like Lauren, you don't hear of many these days, the ones I know are all my peers.
Laura
Lorna
Leah
Mary
Emma
Flora
Freya
Stella
Florence
Ada
Louisa
Martha
Claudia
Rebecca
Abigail

How about Lidia it's not Lylah or Lilian but similar

Or possibly Lynae

Not Lylah! It looks like one of those made-up names, and she will spend her entire life having to spell it out and/or having it mis-spelt.

Lydia? Lyra?

Lylah is an annoying spelling, Leila less so, although I don't much like it.

Celia
Elspeth
Lillian
Claudine
Justine

I thought Lylah and Leila are two different names? One lie - lah one lay-la

Prefer Laurel to Lauren, just a bit more unusual and nature inspired.

Evelyn is nice but two ways to say it. I'd go mad.
Lyla is quite nice but so many of those leila lyla names circa 2003 that it already seems a bit of a dated fad.
Olivia is nice, more classic than Lyla, was v popular too but Livia or Lydia could make it less dated.

Really love Lydia, it's pretty but never got that popular.

Oh Naomi is lovely OP, also love Noemi