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Lily, more traditional, well known, easy to spell and pronounce

They are all pretty.
I'd choose...

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1) Lily (even though everyone seems to be tired of it)
or
2) Maia (by the way, I like the spelling)
3) Eilonwy (which do you prefer ie-LON-wee or ay-LON-wee?)

Lily. It’s so timeless and classic and just beautiful. Sure it’s really popular, but that’s because it’s gorgeous, wearable and doesn’t date.

Eilonwy for sure. It's the weirdest one, and I'm into that. Eilonwy is awesome.

Maia. Lilly is too frilly and Eilowny just looks like random letters thrown together to me.

I dislike Lily for its repeated sounds like baby-babble, its slimy feel in the mouth, its reference to drooping white flowers associated with funerals ...
I like Eilonwy, but I don't consider it usable as a fn outside Wales. As a mn, yes!
I like Maia a lot. May is a family name, but it doesn't appeal to me half as much as Maia; I like the Latin meaning, and especially the little German TV bee!

Lily because it seems the most practical and cute

Lily is my favorite girl name. If I ever had a daughter, this would be her name.

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I really like Eilonwy, but I don’t think I could be brave enough to use it as a first name.

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I’m not crazy about Maia or any other similar names like May, Mae or Maya.

Eilonwy - if my husband were enthused about it and helped talk me into it. Who me, Welsh? No - but I don't really give a damn.
If I got flak over it from her dad, Maia instead. A great name, simple, strong and warm.

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Lily is very pretty, but I don't think it sounds like a name for an adult, and I wouldn't really like being named it, so it would not be on my list for a daughter. It's kind of aggressively maidenish, to me.

Maia.

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Lily is passé. And I have no idea how to pronounce Eilonwy and suspect some other people wouldn’t either. It is awkward looking, much prefer Elowen.

This message was edited 5/21/2021, 1:47 PM