Is Lydia a nice name

[Dixie29]

Baby girl is already here and still not 100% settled on a name..
We are leaning towards Lydia (middle name Hope) but something is not clicking, we keep doubting it for some reason.
My partner really likes Willow which is a lovely name but I have a few reservations.
Other than that we don't have a lot of other options!

Any opinions on Lydia would be great!

You beat me to it!

Love, love, love Lydia.
It would have been DS' name if he'd been a girl.
If he chose it for his daughter, due any day, I'd be well chuffed.

Lydia! Its a classic but underused.
I've worked with a couple and they've both been so lovely.

This.

And I could pretty much guarantee that if they had been at my school in the early 2000s they’d have been nicknamed Lydia Chlamydia. Hopefully bullying isn’t so rife now though.

I adore Lydia, and Hope. If DS had been DD2, he'd have been Hope.

Love Lydia

Lydia is lovely, I personally wouldn’t want to be named Willow

I like willow.
Everytime I hear the name lydia I immediately think lydia teapot in my head 🤣 and it cracks me up everytime.

I always think it sounds like an amalgamation of chlamydia and labia. Not helped by the fact that DH had a friend called Lydia who was an absolute tool. So, it’s a no from me.

Lydia is lovely, much nicer than Willow.

However, Lyvia is one of my favourite names. Worth considering?

Lydia is a lovely name.

Willow - Ron Howard.

Love Lydia.

I like both but I know a child called Wollow who is amazingly intelligent, polite and cute so that would be my preference due to bias!

Lydia is gorgeous, so much nicer than Willow.

We have a Lydia. Such a lovely name. In my opinion it sounds nothing like Linda. We have also never met any other children with the name. I also love the name Claudia x

I have a daughter called Lydia and when this first happened I simply corrected people. It has never happened since and she gets called Lydia (she’s now 8). All names can be shortened if you want them to be.

Lydia Hope is lovely! I would avoid Willow - hell of a risk if there’s even a chance she will be of a more sturdy build. Feel the same about Grace. I was at school with a very large Willow and it seemed a cruel name and my neighbours teenage Grace is very much not graceful in any way.

Lydia is ok.

Willow is lovely

Lydia is lovely and nicer than willow

all I can think is chlamydia unfortunately (and kids, teens even adults can be cruel!)
it is such a shame because Lydia (if chlamydia wasn’t an STI name) is really pretty.

So for that I much prefer Willow. What are your reservations about the name?@Dixie29 Potential nn issues arising?

That's just daft. Everything rhymes with something else if you try hard enough.

DD was at school with a Lydia and she never got teased. It remains a beautiful name.