"New" trendy name

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"New" trendy name
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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 10:47am

A friend from high school just had his second child and named her Lilybelle Grace (whom they plan to call, what else, either Lily or Belle/Bella). Just thought it was interesting that they've managed to combine two trends here ... Lily and the every-popular -belle/-bella names, not to mention the mn Grace, which seems to be rather in at the moment as well. For anyone interested in sib sets, Lilybelle's big brother is Zachary.

Just thought that one might interest some of you. ;)

~Kelli


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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 10:57am

I love that name! I was actually considering it for my daughter but the hubby didn't like the Belle part. So we settled on Lilyana. (he loved the name Arianna.) So far the response we get is usually "wow, that is really pretty and feminine."


all i knew was I wanted to call my daughter Lily (favorite flower) but i wanted her to have options in case she didn't like it or there were too many lily's in her class.


and her middle name is a combination of my middle name Rae and DH's middle name Lee. Raelee (kind of a spinoff from the popular Riley)

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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 11:03am
Hmmm...Interesting name. The trends thing doesn't really bug me, but the name itself is a bit cutesy sounding. It might have been more palatable if they'd used Lily Belle as two seperate names (first and middle), so that a grown up Lily would have a more adult name to go by.
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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 11:11am

That's exactly what my dh said! He hadn't heard the mn and was under the impression it was Lily (fn) Belle (mn) ... he said he thought it was ok that way, but didn't like it at all once I told him it was all one name (now if only he'd offered his opinion as easily when we were naming our own babies LOL).

~Kelli


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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 11:59am
that is pretty!
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Mon, 06-12-2006 - 3:12pm
I love Lily for a name but have no interest in any names with Belle in them... I dont know why , I guess they are just nms.... But I love Lily.
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Fri, 06-23-2006 - 11:59pm
Yeah, I can't see that name on an adult. It reminds me when I was little, well ok, let's be honest,up until the day he died my dad called me Littlebells. LOL. It somehow came from my middle name Elizabeth. But umm.. yeah, I am glad it wasn't my real name.