Middle Name for Lynn

lauralew

Any suggestions? It's technically MIL's middle name, but she goes by Lynn. Her real first name is Valera. I like Lynn a lot, and have a love of family names...but I can't find a good MN for Lynn. And I'd like to avoid over used middle names like Marie and Grace. They're pretty, but too generic and have no personal meaning. ETA: I don't even know if we're having a girl. I just love talking names.

nittanyllama

Lynn Josephine

Lynn Beatrice

Lynn Abigail

Lynn Bridget

Lynn Daphne

Lynn Celeste

Lynn Penelope

Lynn Sylvia

Lynn Violet

Lynn Simone

Feels like it's hard to get the flow right with Lynn. I must say I don't love it in the first name spot, seems boring and dated to me, even though I understand you want to honor your MIL. I'd prefer it as a middle name. 

Out of curiosity, how is Valera pronounced?

ETA I think your daughter is Eleanor? I don't mean to be harping on your name, but I don't like Lynn with Eleanor because of similar sounds. Sorry.

lauralew

NittanyMama said:

Lynn Josephine

Lynn Beatrice

Lynn Abigail

Lynn Bridget

Lynn Daphne

Lynn Celeste

Lynn Penelope

Lynn Sylvia

Lynn Violet

Lynn Simone

Feels like it's hard to get the flow right with Lynn. I must say I don't love it in the first name spot, seems boring and dated to me, even though I understand you want to honor your MIL. I'd prefer it as a middle name. 

Out of curiosity, how is Valera pronounced?

ETA I think your daughter is Eleanor? I don't mean to be harping on your name, but I don't like Lynn with Eleanor because of similar sounds. Sorry.

I agree about the flow...and that Lynn makes a better middle name. I hadn't thought about how Lynn and Eleanor sound similar... We still have a month before finding out if it's a boy or a girl. So anything i post is just because I love talking names and my husband gets annoyed with it.

Valera is pronounced vah-lare-ah. Sorry, I'm not schooled in proper phonetic spelling.

LegalLadyBug

My MIL is Lynne L.ouise. There may be too much alliteration there but I thought I would share :-)

DanandVan

What about Linnea? (I've also seen it spelled Lynnea). It has a better flow as a fn, although just Lynn is nice too!
We had Linnea Gabrielle on our list at one point.

JMU_Bride09

Lynn Skylar
Lynn Kimberly
Lynn Hadley
Lynn Isolde
Lynn Violet
Lynn Ginevra