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I like Lyra. Couldn't your brother just settle for Lyra Sophia or Lyra Grace? I especially like the former.

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~ Arcadia

I *love* Lyra

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Lyra Grace is pretty but I like

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Lyra Matilda
Lyra Violet
Lyra Emily
Lyra Ophelia

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alice x

I love both Lyra and Sophia, but if the middle name Grace is staying (which I find very filler-ish), I'd go with the more unusual first name - Lyra.

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"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true."

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♥Elinor♥

I love Lyra! It reminds me of Lyla!

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I like Sophia Grace, but Grace is being murdered as a middle name lately.

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I vote a mixture. Lyra Sophia or Sophia Lyra. The first gets my vote. Wdyt?

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-Seda*

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"WOOHOO! Hey I have to tell y'all something. I went to Sea World for the first time yesterday. It rocked! I got to kiss a whale! And it kissed me back!"-Kelly Clarkson

Lyra: the name of the heroine in the His Dark Materials books! But not outrageously associated with it, I don't think. I hope they use it. I think Sophia Grace is lovely, but I've seen it so much, it's positively generic to me. I guess if you don't hang out on naming sites you don't get that impression (until she goes to school)..

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Anyway. Some instant combos

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Lyra Catherine
Lyra Millicent
Lyra Sophia
Lyra Camille
Lyra June
Lyra Judith
Lyra Marlene
Lyra Justine
Lyra Kirstan
Lyra Scarlett
Lyra Shannon
Lyra Darcy
Lyra Charlotte
Lyra Charlize

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- chazda

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"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." ~ Iris Murdoch

I think Lyra is lovely. While I prefer LEE-rah to LYE-rah, it's not at all a bad pronunciation. It reminds me of (of course) the Pullman series, which I didn't enjoy particularly well. (On the other hand, I only read Northern Lights, and I keep meaning to read the other two before writing off the series.) I thought it was well-written and all...just not for me.

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Hm. I think that Lyra Sophie would be a nice compromise, particularly if Sophie was pronunced soh-FEE.

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Array

I think it's a really beautiful name. Lyra Kathleen is ok my list :-)

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"A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet"...apparently Romeo wasn't into names :-)- Chelsea

I LOVE Lyra! I've always pronounced it LEER-a though. Sophia Grace is very pretty too though. : )

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CIARDA

This message was edited 2/21/2005, 4:50 PM

Is it pron. lie-rah or lee-rah?

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~~ Claire ~~

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Sophia Grace, hands down!

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Lyra, said really fast, sounds like liar. I just find it too girly.

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-Lissa Hannah-
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. - Allan Bloom

Wonderful.

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Lyra is a little spunky and unusual while still sounding elegant. I love it. Then again, I love Sophia too...SUCH a bummer that it's so popular these days! So I prefer Lyra, and I agree, I like the way it fits with the siblings. Let us know how it turns out.

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~ Caitlín

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"Blue tinted individuals who go about armed to the teeth and quoting twelfth-century poetry are not easy to comprehend." ~ Lloyd Alexander

Is it pronounced like LEER-ah or LYE-rah? The first prn. is pretty but makes me think of Italian money. :b The spelling also makes me think of Lycra. But I definitely like it more than Sophia Grace, which is just too popular imo.