Middle name for Lila?

[MaltipooMama]

So we're pretty sure we're going for the name Lila for our next baby, what middle names might go nicely with that? Names that I like but don't think would go as a middle name are:

Elara
Adalynne
Willow
Elodie

I guess I like kind of pretty, girly names if anyone has any suggestions ☺️

I would've loved that but if you say my name very fast it could almost pass for the same name! I've had a nightmare spelling and pronouncing it for people over the years so don't think I could bear to pass that down!

I like all of these! I think Lila Darcie is my favourite 🤩

Lila Bryn
Lila Quinn
Lila Paige
Lila Reese
Lila Sage
Lila Wren
Lila Daisy
Lila Maisie
Lila Macie
Lila Gracie
Lila Scarlett
Lila Robyn

@Moreteaandchocolate we must have similar taste because I like loads of these suggestions as well! Going to add Sage, Wren and Robyn onto my ever growing shortlist!

@MaltipooMama , the Welsh 'name' is Tegan. Teg rhymes with egg and an rhymes with can. It means toy or plaything so isn't great as a name even if it sounds and looks pretty.

Rae is in the same catagory as Rose/May/Grace.

I don’t like Darcie at all.

@MaltipooMama Tegan rhymes with Megan :)

Rae is in the same catagory as Rose/May/Grace. Yes, in that it's a filler but Rose, May and Grace are quite nice.

Rae is very much a filler middle name.
Coralie is OK.
Teagan or Tegan - can't get past the egg sound in the middle.
Darcie - can't get past the arse sound in the middle.

How about -
Lila Macy
Lila Daisy
Lila Tamsin
Lila Sadie
Lila Maeve
Lila Beth
Lila Bethan
Lila Maisie

Rae is my favourite

Lila Robyn is gorgeous.

Lila Briony
Lila Celine
Lila Ruby
Lila Vivienne
Lila Camille

Yes I was sitting on the same reservations about the same four names.

Rae to me is something that fell into popularity with Pulp Fiction: “ Billy Ray was a preacher’s son…” Thenceforth, people have tacked Ray/ Rae onto anything to give a “ vibe.” Is it actually a nice name? Before then to me Ray was a late middle-aged, middle management type with a comb over, a white business shirt you could see his vest through and his belt let out several notches for when he first got the job twenty years earlier.

All the Coralies I have known were also middle-aged, slightly frumpy, slightly grumpy and with a keen interest in something crafty like crochet. Not a bad thing … but also not really aspirational for a baby girl.

Tegan… well you know … egg.. egghead… It’s just not an attractive sound to me.

And Darcie/Darcey has always baffled me. I THINK it comes from the French d’Arcy ( of the town of Arcy) which immediately, when, moved into “Franglais”, definitely puts one in mind of “ D’Arsey.” Arsey Darcey. It’s like an English comedy French character: Odeur d’Arsey.

Op if you like Rae, what about Freya, which has a similar sound in it?

I can’t get away from the idea of Rae as short for Raewyn, which I’d put in a similar category as Gwyneth - albeit Paltrow actually carries it quite well considering …

Lila Rachel is nice and would shorten to Lila Rae.
Gwyneth is a Welsh name and is nothing like Raewyn, which looks made up. We had a neighbour called Auntie Gwyneth.

Raewyn is a more modern name ( though I know a 70 year old Raewyn so not super new) and again it has Welsh roots from gwyn and rhay ( Prince)

You got that from a baby name site. Gwyn is masculine, and rhay doesn't look Welsh. Prince in Welsh is tywysog. Rae might be from Latin

Rae the Scottish surname means deer, I think.

I got it from a receptionist at a place where I did an internship as a student. Her name was Raewyn. She’d be about mid 70’s now.

Oh, OK but it sounds like she was misled. -wyn is masculine, with the feminine being -wen.

Lila Madeleine
Lila Eloise
Lila Grace
Lila Pearl
Lila Ophelia
Lila Amaryllis
Lila Soraya
Lila Sienna
Lila Scarlett
Lila Elizabeth
Lila Xanthe

Not Rose. So predictable, yawn.

Or Grace or Mae/May. Yawn, yawn.