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Beau-Lilah for a girl

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w9828971 · 09/10/2025 14:09

Thoughts?

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UnDruidlyWords · 09/10/2025 15:18

God, no, it's awful. Sounds terrible and she'll have to spell it out for people for the rest of her life, imagine saddling your child with that.

Needmorelego · 09/10/2025 15:19

allmymonkeys · 09/10/2025 15:15

Isn't it Beulah? I've only ever seen the name used in a Robert Heinlein book, but I believe it's biblical. Is that perhaps what they were thinking of?

I know a place that has Beulah as part of it's name and locally it's pronounced as "Bu-Lah"
Beau Lilah is completely different ("Bow-Lie-lah")
I quite like Beulah though as a name.

Silvers11 · 09/10/2025 15:20

How on earth do you pronounce it 😂😂😂This has to be a joke? Right?

sugarapplelane · 09/10/2025 15:20

Honest option or polite opinion?

Awful, absolutely awful.

Lilah on its own is lovely though. Stick with that and she’ll be fine. Put bloody Beau in front and she’ll forever be having to explain her name and people will just take the mick.

YYYDlilah · 09/10/2025 15:20

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BunnyLake · 09/10/2025 15:21

FunnysInLaJardin · 09/10/2025 14:11

pronounced like Delilah?

Why, why, why, Beau-Lilah.

Fionasapples · 09/10/2025 15:21

Dreadful, sorry

Orpheya · 09/10/2025 15:21

If you are caught up in these exact letter, call her Bolivia, since it is a country and just lie your great grandma lived there before coming here to marry a rich English man;

or:

Belinda, since sound similar
or simply Bella-Lilly

BunnyLake · 09/10/2025 15:21

YYYDlilah · 09/10/2025 15:20

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Yes. Usernames like that always make me wonder if they're a bot or somethimg.

Needmorelego · 09/10/2025 15:22

YYYDlilah · 09/10/2025 15:20

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We scared them away.
Or they saw sense.

UnDruidlyWords · 09/10/2025 15:22

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Well, I'd name change too if I was planning to give my child such a terrible name.

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 15:22

MadinMarch · 09/10/2025 15:13

Her other brother could be Beau-Lox...

I like the Bo-Lox spelling for that.

stillhiding1990 · 09/10/2025 15:22

Bolayla?

Calliopespa · 09/10/2025 15:23

BunnyLake · 09/10/2025 15:21

Yes. Usernames like that always make me wonder if they're a bot or somethimg.

...trying to find out how the hoomans fink.

Hundslappadrifa · 09/10/2025 15:24

You’re having a laugh, right? 😂

KitWyn · 09/10/2025 15:25

Lila is lovely!

It also works both as a child and later as an adult e.g.

Is Lila free to come to Jane's 8th birthday party on Friday? They are such good friends!

I think Lila is the outstanding candidate for promotion to the Board. We should appoint her.

If you insert a possible name in both, and one makes you wince, it's probably not a good idea.

EveningSpread · 09/10/2025 15:26

Or is it meant to be like Beulah, but Beulilah?

Blorengia · 09/10/2025 15:26

If you (or your friend/acquaintance) must go down this route, how about the 'real' name - Beulah?

Jollyhockeysticks1 · 09/10/2025 15:28

Please don't put your child at a disadvantage in life before they are born.

DottieMoon · 09/10/2025 15:29

I like both names....separately, NOT TOGETHER.

SpudsAndCarrots · 09/10/2025 15:29

I'd be embarrassed even naming a dog or cat that, definitely not. Lilah on its own is OK.

Zempy · 09/10/2025 15:30

Megalolz

ThatshallotBaby · 09/10/2025 15:33

@w9828971
I like it. I think it’s pretty and musical, Don’t worry about what other people think though, the only person’s opinions that ever truly matters is your own.

Hankunamatata · 09/10/2025 15:34

Belle or Bella

drspouse · 09/10/2025 15:36

My, my, my, Beau-lilah!

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