Who is naming DD Lily or Lillian?!

Summerbaby · January 2013

I love the name but am so afraid that it is to popular! Help!!

mommysangels · January 2013

I named my DD Lillian and call her Lily. I forgot the site but when I looked it up (last year) it was ranked 102 of the most popular. Which is why I chose it - not popular.

Summerbaby · January 2013

mommysangels:
I named my DD Lillian and call her Lily. I forgot the site but when I looked it up (last year) it was ranked 102 of the most popular. Which is why I chose it - not popular.

So do you feel like there are a lot of them?

Happy2BPregnant · January 2013

I think this name was more popular about 5 or 6 years ago. I haven't really heard people talking about this name in more recent years.

mommysangels · January 2013

I don't think it's popular. I have not met another Lily or heard another parent call their daughter Lily. Matthew however was not popular when I named him and I hear it everywhere now

So in short, no.

kfarmer92 · January 2013

I only know one little girl named Lilly, she's two.

alohachrissy2 · January 2013

Its everywhere where I am....Its my hubby's first choice he is completely in love with this name but in our area Lily's are everywhere. We instead chose Emily (which by the lists is way more popular) but we don't hear it around here at all....I'd go by your area and not the lists personally.

Ow but all the Lily's around here are 4 and up

MrsWindyCity · January 2013

FWIW there are 2 Lilys and 1 Lillian in my DS's class of 13 kids.

ETA: In the age 2-3 range

keg · January 2013

I have a DD named Lillian and generally call her Lillian. I think there is one other Lily in her daycare (infant-4 year olds). She was named after my grandmother and my DH's mother, so we weren't as worried about the popularity factor.

Bride-hilda · January 2013

I know a Lili who's about 3, but her full name is Lilikoi. It doesn't seem like it's that popular of a name... at ALL.

InkedMegs · January 2013

I haven't talked about it much here, but we are 95 sure we are naming our LO Lillian. Our battle is how to shorten it.

I think it is strange to spell it "Lily" when there are two "L's" in Lillian!

keg · January 2013

InkedMegs:
I haven't talked about it much here, but we are 95 sure we are naming our LO Lillian. Our battle is how to shorten it. I think it is strange to spell it "Lily" when there are two "L's" in Lillian!

What about Lillie?

shibby00 · January 2013

My niece is Lillian and called Lily. She will be 2 in April.

jensriot · January 2013

I only know of one other Lily close to us, but she's 6, I think. My Lillian is 2. We don't call her Lilly very often, but she ended up being LilliBug, kind of like Lady Bug. I'm not even sure how it got started, but it's cute.

sucrets4 · January 2013

InkedMegs:
I haven't talked about it much here, but we are 95 sure we are naming our LO Lillian. Our battle is how to shorten it. I think it is strange to spell it "Lily" when there are two "L's" in Lillian!

Why? Nicknames don't have to follow rules. Why is Mike a nn for Michael? (rhetorical)

InkedMegs · January 2013

sucrets4:
InkedMegs:
I haven't talked about it much here, but we are 95 sure we are naming our LO Lillian. Our battle is how to shorten it. I think it is strange to spell it "Lily" when there are two "L's" in Lillian!
Why? Nicknames don't have to follow rules.

A cousin named her daughter Madison. She told me a few weeks ago that a teacher once praised her for shortening it to "Madi" because it made sense with the spelling of her full name and helped when learning to write. She said girls she had seen shortened to "Maddy" had a difficult time going between their shortened name and full name.

I thought about it before that conversation, but that story made me really think about it. We've tossed around doing Lilli.