Name for Nickname Lily?
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Name for Nickname Lily?
| Wed, 05-07-2008 - 1:18am |
as of right now, i'm determined touse illusion, which everyone says makes no sense at all, but my daughters due in july, and EVERYONE already calls her lily, myself included...but i dont like lily by itself, i dont like lillian, liliana, lilia, lilah either.

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I have to agree with your bf... Illusion does sound like a stripper's name. I wouldn't use it. Here are some other ideas:
Delilah
Galilea
Ilona
Iliana
Amelia
Cecily
Jillian
Matilda
Elizabeth
Liana
Lolita
I don't even see how Lily can come from Illusion.
Just curious, why not Lily by itself?
Edited 5/7/2008 2:53 am ET by peacewinds
Leilani
Lily-Rose, or something to that effect.
Linden
Elaina
Emilia
Elisabeth
Tallulah
Olivia? could work with the LI in the middle of the name
Elise
MoMmY tO oLiViA gRaCe
And soon to be two more little blessings
Natalie - Wife to Nick & Mom to Olivia Grace. Sarah
Maybe not a stripper, but it does sound a bit contrived--like a character from the X-Men or something. I'm fond of unusual, but this might be a bit much.
Other places Lily could come from (besides just Lily, which I'm fine with):
Tigerlily (yeah, yeah, Bob Geldof's daughter shows up in the lists for having this name, but I really think it's her first two names--Heavenly Hirani--that push this over the edge. On its own, it's just whimsical.)
Delilah
Liliom (in the French play, this is a male character, but I think it's obscure enough to let slide.)
Ilona
Ilyria (it's a place from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...I don't think it's a real place)
(edited to change the spelling of Ilyria...I had it with an E.)
Edited 5/7/2008 3:38 pm ET by dr.kae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyria ! Great suggestion; I love it as a name actually. There's also Ilaria, which derives from the same root as Hilary.
For the OP:
Ilaria
Iliana
Lilias
Ottilie
Romilly
Rosalie
Kind of a stretch, maybe, but I could see using Lily for any of these names or the ones the other posters mentioned. I would stay away from Illusion, personally.
~Rachael
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