My sister is in her late 20s and now pregnant. Her husband’s surname is Higgs.
So my sister always wanted to call her daughter [name]Gilly[/name]. But then the whole Abercrombie, [name]Gilly[/name] Hicks thing happened.
[name]Do[/name] you think she can still call her daughter [name]Gilly[/name] even though her full name will be [name]Gilly[/name] Higgs?
It’s pronounced [name]Gilly[/name] with a G like in go…just [name]Gilly[/name], no [name]Jilly[/name].
Why doesn’t she name her [name]Gillian[/name] and give her the nn [name]Gilly[/name]? [name]Gilly[/name] is kind of childish and the surname Higgs only reinforces it.
[name]Gilly[/name] sounds silly. And like an adjective describing something with gills. “[name]Gee[/name], this shark fin soup is awfully gilly…”
Agree with previous posters
I’d never heard of [name]Gilly[/name] Hicks before, but after I read [name]Gilly[/name] I immediately pictured [name]Kristen[/name] Wiig dressed up as [name]Gilly[/name] in that on [name]Saturday[/name] [name]Night[/name] Live skit that she did, and now I can’t get that image out of my head.
I think that the suggestion of naming her [name]Gillian[/name] is fantastic. Your sister can still call her [name]Gilly[/name], but she has [name]Gillian[/name] to fall back on, and being able to go by [name]Gillian[/name] Higgs rather than [name]Gilly[/name] Higgs would help to differentiate herself more from [name]Gilly[/name] Hicks.
I personally think [name]Gilly[/name] is awful and [name]Gilly[/name] Higgs sounds very cartoonish. Reminds me of [name]Pippi[/name] Longstocking
[name]Gilly[/name] is bleh, and [name]Gilly[/name] Higgs is awful. It sounds like a silly child’s book character.
[name]Gillian[/name] Higgs is better, but it still sounds child’s book character like.
Like [name]Junie[/name] B. Jonesish.
I think it’s okay, very cute, but would it grow with her? I rarely invoke that, but [name]Gilly[/name] is just better on a little girl I think. What about [name]Gilda[/name]? It’s closer to the “gill” sound than [name]Gillian[/name], which actually has a J-sounding beginning, and [name]Gilly[/name] is an easy nickname.
FYI also [name]Gilly[/name] is a minor character in the Song of Ice and [name]Fire[/name] series (Game of Thrones), and they said her name came from the gillyflower, which apparently is a real flower, so it’s got the floral thing going for it if she does use it.
I agree with nono, the first thing that came to mind was [name]Kristen[/name] Wig on SNL. If you’ve seen the skit, you can see why the name has a tough image to get rid of.
The second was [name]Gilly[/name] from ASOIAF, as already mentioned by betsy buttercup.