Baby Girl Names too Similar?

Name Advice
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[name_m]Hi[/name_m]. We are currently due with baby girl #2 and needing some input. Our daughter is [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] [name_f]May[/name_f] but everyone calls her [name_f]Lily[/name_f]. I love the name [name_f]Elin[/name_f] (Ee-[name_u]Lynn[/name_u]) but curious if it sounds too similar to [name_f]Lillian[/name_f]? I think [name_f]Lily[/name_f] and [name_f]Elin[/name_f] sound fine together but not sure if [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] and [name_f]Elin[/name_f] are too similar?

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They’re too similar for me, sorry.

[name_m]How[/name_m] do you feel about:
[name_f]Ella[/name_f]
[name_f]Elena[/name_f]
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]
[name_f]Elba[/name_f]/[name_f]Elbe[/name_f]
[name_u]Evan[/name_u]
[name_f]Etta[/name_f]
[name_f]Emme[/name_f]
[name_f]Este[/name_f]/Estée

3

I think [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] and [name_f]Elin[/name_f] are fine together. Sure, they’re close, but not too close imo.

4

Thank you for your input. Those are all beautiful names but I’m not being pulled to any of them. Thanks again!

5

Thank you wanderine for your input!

6

Lily and Elin is beautiful. Lillian and Elin are way too close for me, but if you’re OK with it, and love Elin too much to give up, I shouldn’t let that automatically rule it out.

A good compromise would be to find a name like Evelina and call her Elin. That way, they could be Lily and Elin, but also Lillian and Evelina! Which would (hopefully!) avoid the problem, if you would consider it a problem. Emmeline, Aveline, Evelyn, Selina, Pomeline, Belinda/Melinda . . . trying to think of a name with a long E (EE rather than EH) . . . Amelia/Emilia, Aurelia N—, Ophelia, Bedelia, Leilani . . .

Otherwise, what about:

Erin
Merle
Pearl
Etta
Sheila
Vera
Murron
Twila
Petra
Edith
Enya / Ethne
Viola
Isla
Oriana
Maisie
Opal
Eliska
Portia
Gwen
Hera
Orla
Cassia
Julia
Bethia
Elodie
Mavis

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I agree with @morning_glory. [name_f]Lily[/name_f] and [name_f]Elin[/name_f] are darling together, but [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] and [name_f]Elin[/name_f] are too close.

Of note… I know that many pronounce [name_f]Elin[/name_f] with the long e, EE-lin, but I pronounce it something between Eh-lin (more like [name_f]Ellen[/name_f] with a stretched out E) and Ay-lin (like the letter A or as in the word bay). The one [name_f]Elin[/name_f] I have met (a girl I nannied for her first year of life) went that way… how her parents pronounced it.

So that said, I personally wouldn’t go for the longer e options that @morning_glory posted, unless indeed you are set on EE-lin as the de facto pronunciation.

I like the idea of [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u]. I also think [name_f]Evelina[/name_f] and [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] work. I see nothing wrong with [name_f]Elin[/name_f] as a nickname for [name_f]Elena[/name_f] either.

[name_f]Edlyn[/name_f] comes to mind as an alternative, or straight [name_f]Ellen[/name_f].

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If I was either of your daughters, I would not want my sister to have such a similar sounding name.

9

They are a little too close for me too.

Have you considered the variant [name_f]Elina[/name_f]? Would allow you to keep [name_f]Elin[/name_f] as a nn without it being too much like [name_f]Lillian[/name_f].
[name_f]Lillian[/name_f] and [name_f]Elina[/name_f]
[name_f]Lily[/name_f] and [name_f]Elin[/name_f]