Middle Name for Lily

[JosephineClaire]

My SIL is expecting a couple of months ahead of me and has chosen the name Lily - but she is struggling to find a pretty middle name to fit.

Surname is double-barrelled...

Any suggestions? Thanks

NOT Rose. I think that's a fairly common middle name.

I'd try and choose a meaningful name for the middle one - a friend, relative, or someone you admire

Got to be Rose I think, so pretty.

OOOPs!

Grace or Mae.

All the Girls around here are called Lily Grace or Lily Mae.

Agree with others, please not Mae! So many Lily-Maes round here.

Lily Florence is very nice.

alice
freya

will she use both names?

beth

Not Ella either.

I think middle names should be a name you really really love but that you wouldn't use as a first name, for whatever reason. My DD2 has a very unusual second name. I chose it because it is beautiful but I just didn't have the balls to use it as a first name.

And with something short like Lily I would be inclined to go for something a bit longer. I heart Harriet for a middle name...

Lily Florence
Lily Isobel
Lily Alexa
Lily Sophia

I think middle names should have a meaning - after a relative, a friend, a lovely midwife, a favourite author. Anything but the dreaded Rose/May/Grace (all nice names in their own right, but just so unoriginal as middle names).

My little one is called Lily August. August is a family name, my mother's name was Augustina and my Gran's name was Augusta so I wanted to change it slightly but keep the same idea. I also know of a Lily Tuesday which I really like.

Lily Elena

Lily Josephine

I know a Lily Jasmine but its a bit flowery

please NOT Rose or Mae

bella

My niece called her DD Lillie Marie. I think that sounds sweet.

Not sure why she chose that spelling but its her choice and it sounds the same anyway.

I like family connections for middle names. Or, as MrsHappy says, more outlandish names that aren't so suitable for 1st names if ytou're lily livered like me.

Anything except Rose, Grace, Mae or May...or indeed Sue a' la Kerry Katona

IMHO long names sound quite nice after a short first name eg

Lily Alexandra
Lily Margaret
Lily Beatrice
Lily Charlotte
Lily Josephine
Lily Catherine
Lily Annabel
Lily Isobel

etc etc

I have a Lily Summer. Was going to be Lily Serena but she turned out not very serena at all....

Alexandra

Soemthing a bit more solid I would think: Alexandra would work, Victoria something like that. I wouldn't go for a second name of the same type personally

Arabella? I think it has a nice ring to it.

Lily Frances

Lily Megan

Lily Hanna

Lily Rae?

ok will be serious now,

Lily Elizabeth
Lily Louise
Lily Marie was nice like teamcullen suggested
Lily Anne

(for some unknown reason i think old fashioned names sound amazing with the name lily)

With having a double-barrelled surname, I think you'd be better with something short.
Lily Beth and Lily Kate are my favourites.