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blech. Monte and Debhor are pretty bad (sorry if these are your names!). Monte makes me think of Monty blended with Dante (do you say MONTY or mon-TAY?). Doesn't seem like a girls' name either way.

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Debhor is like Debra mixed with Abhor....I will say no more on this. No more needs to be said.

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Lilyan isn't too bad, being basically a Lillian/Lilyana mashup which works decently well. It has a nice look, too.

Not a fan of any. Monte sounds like a last name and the other two sound made up. Out of all I like Lilyan the best... But why not spell it Lillian?

Monte, Debhor and Lilyan are all unusual names and are quite different from the majority of names I have encountered or heard from the Southern United States, but some unusual names do undoubtedly crop up there. Lee is of course really popular for boys, and I have even seen it used as a middle name for girls. By in large though, the names in the south seem fairly traditional like Elizabeth, Amelia, Abigail, Caroline, etc. They do use nick names and middle names a little more perhaps than the north. Monte sounds rather masculine like a nick name for Montmorency or Montgomery. Debhor looks like Deborah spelled using a thick accent, and Lilyan is another spelling for Lilian or a combination of Lily Ann.