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> We have a Lilian who goes mad that I

> refuse to shorten it to Lily as that is v popular.

> She prefers the short version as it is on all the

> named tat you can buy all over the place. People

> automatically shorten it and that annoys me

> massively and stick two ls in the middle, which is

> an Americanisation not the traditional European

> spelling.

>


Lillian is a traditional European spelling... if you're Dutch!


Also, Lilly (just "Lilly", not short for Lillian) in the States has a slightly different origin. It comes from the tradition of using an old family surname as a daughter's first name. Lilly (with 2 Ls) is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin.

  • 1 month later...
Ok, so I thought I'd better return to this thread and let you know that we finally decided on a name a few days ago - after ruling out ALL five of the names on the list called The Short Shortlist of Names We Both Agree On, we went with a late entry... So our little girl is Alouette Bee, or Lula for short.

Lovely name. (Means lark in French?)


Little Saff's name was a late entry too. Husband didn't even manage to produce a "Short List". His list just consisted of turning down everything on mine! We had an easier time naming our cat than our child!!


We wanted to give Little Saff another middle name, so we offered her a few options. She's chosen Halima for herself. It makes her full name complete in a nice way, and I like that she chose it for herself.

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