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Beau-Lilah for a girl

488 replies

w9828971 · 09/10/2025 14:09

Thoughts?

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user927464 · 09/10/2025 16:45

Horrendous

BashfulClam · 09/10/2025 16:46

Please don’t saddle your poor baby with that. Sorry but it’s fucking awful!

LancashireButterPie · 09/10/2025 16:47

Lilah Beau or Lilah Belle is slightly better.

ButSheSaid · 09/10/2025 16:47

The best names I've seen on here are
GARYBELLE (Garybeaugh)
and
J-Cub

What about those?

InveterateWineDrinker · 09/10/2025 16:48

If you think she'll end up working in Minnie Mouse's Bow-tique (the shop in Minnie's Bow Toons) then it might work. I'm struggling to think of anywhere else where it would be regarded as normal or sensible, except perhaps an erotic dance venue.

BashfulClam · 09/10/2025 16:49

LadyRoughDiamond · 09/10/2025 16:45

I teach a lot of children with hyphenated names. By Y9 they’ve always ditched one half and are furious when anyone uses their full name. I’ve had some embarrassing moments with parents who still insist on the full Elsie-May or whatever, despite the fact that their child hates it. The same often goes for cumbersome double-barrelled surnames - by the end of school they’re just putting one on exercise books, despite what it says on the register.

Remember, names are for children, not for the parents.

The people I’ve met has always insisted on both names. One girl was ‘Sarah-Jane not Sarah not Jane, Sarah-Jane or SJ’ one guy in our team insisted on calling her Sarah.

mistlethrush · 09/10/2025 16:51

Why would you want to call your little girl a name that implies 'handsome' not beautiful? Belle would be the 'beautiful' option which might perhaps suggest you had a little bit more confidence in genetics...

JudgeJ · 09/10/2025 16:53

w9828971 · 09/10/2025 14:09

Thoughts?

I immediately see Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh in Gone With The Wind!

bluevelvetears · 09/10/2025 16:56

Sounds like polyester lace - cheap, nasty and scratchy.

Holdonforsummer · 09/10/2025 16:58

please don’t.

mmmarmalade · 09/10/2025 16:59

YouHaveAnArse · 09/10/2025 15:07

'Pretentious' is not the word that sprung to mind with this name.

We're you thinking of Beau-colic were you - isn't that a beautiful name?

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 09/10/2025 17:01

It makes me think of "Beulah" a popular name for churches and a Biblical place name meaning "married".

WatchingTheDetective · 09/10/2025 17:02

If she has a sister, you could call her Doolally.

FireBreathingDragon · 09/10/2025 17:02

DeeThree · 09/10/2025 14:12

Well Beau is male, so for that reason... I'm out
🙄

Agreed - find it so annoying how many girls are called Beau and I can only assume the parents haven’t researched it at all and don’t realise it’s masculine?

user2848502016 · 09/10/2025 17:02

Awful sorry
Delilah is nice though, or just Lilah on it’s own?
Beau is usually a boy’s name too….

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 17:05

LancashireButterPie · 09/10/2025 16:47

Lilah Beau or Lilah Belle is slightly better.

Though sounds like a steamboat

Cherrysoup · 09/10/2025 17:06

DeeThree · 09/10/2025 14:12

Well Beau is male, so for that reason... I'm out
🙄

Masculine version. Would drive me nuts as a linguist.

Faceonthewrongfoot · 09/10/2025 17:10

Funny how these weird names always got dropped by an OP with a string of numbers for a user name who then never comes back.

godmum56 · 09/10/2025 17:10

great name for a pet cow. sorry....

CBM40 · 09/10/2025 17:11
season 8 friends GIF

As Ross would say

Foundress · 09/10/2025 17:11

Zempy · 09/10/2025 15:30

Megalolz

Now that is a good name 😂.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 09/10/2025 17:11

You need a rethink. Do not saddle her with that terrible name.

Shatteredallthetimelately · 09/10/2025 17:12

w9828971 · 09/10/2025 14:09

Thoughts?

My first were

A sibling for Bo selecta

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 09/10/2025 17:13

Is it in case the girl decides she wants to be a boy when she grows up ?

TigTails · 09/10/2025 17:16

Why why why Beau-Lilah…