Are Lily and Lucy too similar to be sibling names?

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Dd is a Lily and we are considering naming our second daughter Lucy but I'm concerned they sound/look too similar. Thoughts?

Personally I wouldn't. I would also avoid any name starting with L.

I think those are lovely sibling names.

Too matchy for my taste

I think too similar myself.

No I think its fine. Same number of letters and the same classy vintage yet modern vibe. Its not like the same sound in the middle is it eh I know someone with a Lily and a Lydia and a Jodie and Jodie. They don't work in my opinion but who am I.

I think it's too matchy.

They're too close and sort of clash.

I actually think they go well together and sound cute, they both start with L but different sounds

I think they work, sound wise.

I love both of them, esp Lucy. I love all L names.

I like the names Lily and Lucy together!

Too similar. Some people think this sort of idea is cute but I think that the possibility of mistakes between medical records, letters sent (admittedly fewer these days), to me it seems like you see them as one of a set rather than two individuals who are entitled to be recognised as individuals. The girls growing up next door to me growing up were Lisa and Louise, to this day, 50 later I have to keep thinking which one was the older? I'd advise something else.

Jodie and Jodie?! The same name?!

Too too much with 2 letters out of 4 the same and beginning with the same letter and ending with the same letter

I think they're too similar. It's like you just like one sound and you've used your favourite name that makes that sound, so Lucy is just the second best name that sounds the largely the same.

Lily and Lucy don't work together.

Lily and Lucille or Lily and Louise?

Lily and Ruby?

Lily and Lulu? - don’t know why that should be better than Lucy really

It will be a pain for them when they get older and keep opening each other's post to Miss L Smith or whatever. Is there a longer name which can be abbreviated to Lily? Elizabeth can be shortened to Lily . . .

I wouldn't choose them both, but at the same time they're not awful together if the each mean something to you (like both grandmothers) OR you both love godmother & agree on them

Best wishes with DD2

It's cute and I would do it. The problem is people will be saying the wrong name. DD and I have the same ending, both two syllables and start with a vowel (not Ada and Eva but similar and less alike) and it confuses the fuck out of people.

They sound good together 😊

I like them. Give them 2nd names and use both names for official documentation. When they then get post it will be addressed to Miss Lily M Bloggs or Miss Lucy G Bloggs etc...

This is what I did with my 2

They are lovely together and I don’t think they are too similar at all. Some people don’t like same initial name for children but loads of people do it and both my parents and brother all had same initials and they were fine - I don’t remember there being any mixups with doctors/bank etc.

and if you think about it, there are so many fathers and sons with the same name too.

IMO Lily and Lucy sound like a lovely pair

I think they’re too matchy.

Lily and Posy
Lily and Marnie
Lily and Zara