Thoughts on Lyra?

[Livingbysea]

Hi everyone,

im due to have a baby girl in 3 weeks and my husband and I still can’t decide on a name!! My first choice was Ada which he has gone off and his faves are Jasmine and Isabelle neither of which I would choose as I know a few of each!

we both like Lyla but he suggested Lyra today and I like it! We are thinking of Lyra Grace Elliot. I haven’t heard the name much and it’s not that common. Anyone have any thoughts on the combo I have put above?

many thanks!

I like it!

I know a gorgeous little Lyra, very cute name.

I prefer Lyla.

I love Lyra! X

Lovely. Use it!

Neighbour had a baby just 2 weeks ago and has called her Lyra. A good choice if you have musical connections! (And a pretty name 🙂)

It’s lovely but makes me think of Lycra.

Is it pronounced Lee-ra or Lie-ra?

Makes me think of the Philip Pullman character, she was called Lyra. Really pretty name.

Love it!

Beautiful. Go for it x

Lie-ra (or it should be anyway!)

Love Lyra. Makes me think of His Dark Materials.

It's lovely!

Really, really gorgeous and I love it - one of my favourite names! I always think of the character in His Dark Materials who is fantastic

I do love it! I have never come acroos a Lyra.
I like it more than Lyla.

I like it.

Not keen . I think of Lycra but just pick the name you love.

I like it - also makes me think of his dark materials. Ed Sheeran has a child called Lyra I'm sure (would put my DH right off haha)

I prefer pretty Lyra over Lyla simply because it doesn’t have spelling issues (Lila, Lilah). Plus I also like the astrological and mythological links.

The only issue is that it’s fairly trendy now (and wasn’t used before Pullman’s Dark Materials- in particular once the films/tv show came out) so it may become dated. Lyra could turn out to be like Lara (Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago) and become a semi-classic - or give away her age in future. It’s a risk you take with pop culture names/ names that rise quickly.

Also unless you are set on Grace, I’d consider something a bit more interesting for a middle - almost every girl has Rose May or Grace for a middle name these days so there will be a fair few Lyra Grace’s out there. Eve, Maeve, Claire, Blythe, Hope, even semi popular Faye etc would all be more uncommon one syllable middle names.

It seems I'm the only one who really doesn't like it.

It's probably as old as time, but it smacks of being a new name that somebody has made up in order to sound unique, IMHO.

I work in a school, and we have lots of Laylas, Lylas..Myhas, Mias, Mylahs, Milas, and other similar names.

Staff find it hard to remember which name belongs to which girl, because they are all so similar sounding. It's understandably annoying for the children when this happens.

It's a lovely name but I think Lyra Elliot is a bit of a mouthful of vowels and Ls. You would get used to it, but if there was a name ending in a consonant sound you liked (like Jasmine which is lovely too) it would flow better. If you don't care about that then go for Lyra, it's really nice.

Sounds too much like Lycra or liar.

Love it!! 😊

It’s lovely but fashionable! Lyra, Lara, Luna… I know several. Half are cockerpoos and half are little girls 😵‍💫