Longer name for Leni

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Husband and I love Leni for DD due early next year but I’d like to give her a longer name on BC as I know it’s a bit nicknamey and she may want to be known as something else when older. So far we’ve come up with
Elena - probably go with this if we don’t find anything else
Helena- we don’t really like this
Selena - husband doesn’t like this

Are we missing any other options that could work ?

Melanie
Elena
Eleni
Elinor/Eleanor
Leoni
Leanora

That's absolutely lovely 😍

Does Eleni work if not Elena?

For what it's worth, I think Leni is lovely and fine on its own although Elena is gorgeous and Elena nickname Leni would be so pretty.

Yeah this. And she will have to go through life correcting people on her name, no not ......, just leni etc

I am all for the longer name with a short nickname option. However, if you actually want to call her Leni, call her Leni.
If you call her Elinor, with the nn Leno, you might be upset when people call her Ellie. If you really want a longer name then I think it HAS to start Len to try to avoid different nicknames emerging.
So Lenora/Lenore which are lovely. Pp suggested Lenka which is gorgeous!

Probably been suggested a hundred times over but my first thought was Eleanor.

Agree - the only way to guarantee she is Leni is to call her that. Otherwise she might be Ellie (Elena, Eleanor etc) Arlie (Arlene) Val (Valentina) or Lee (Leonara Leoni etc) by her own choosing once she is at school.

Helen.

Lenihenry

By the way is it Len-ee or Lean-ee that you want as the pronunciation?

Leontia

My dd is named Helena. We called her Leni as a nick name. She's always hated it. She doesn't like Helena either. She got to 13 and picked a new name. She uses that at school now. 🤷‍♂️ I hope your dd likes whatever you decide on. We can only do our best. 🙄😆

Lenin

Lenora

Charlene

Leilani

Leni is sweet.

Leonor
Leonora
Eleni
Ellinor
Glenda
Elena
Lenore
Helen

There is also Lanny, nick name of - Alanna.

Leni Riefenstahl the Nazi film director was called Helene.

Jolene

I know a Leni - and she’s chief exec of a think tank, so don’t think it’s too much of a nickname and will hold her back professionally - it’s a great name on its own!

Was coming on to say Leni for Valentina.

I loved this combination too but we wanted a French or English name.

Valentina is nice.

Eleni