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in reply to a message by Steven
Your daughter must have found it somewhere, surely? Or did she invent it?
It looks like a merger between Lyra and an Irishized spelling of Laureen or Lorraine. (Lyra, apart from the musical instrument and the constellation, is the heroine of the Philip Pullman trilogy: Northern Lights is the first book, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Good books, good character.) Click on them and see what comes up.
I must point out that invented names are potential minefields. If you can invent a word, so can some industrialist or his ad agency, and your little girl might end up sharing her unique name with bathroom cleaners, equine contraceptives or cheap snacks in crackly packets.
It looks like a merger between Lyra and an Irishized spelling of Laureen or Lorraine. (Lyra, apart from the musical instrument and the constellation, is the heroine of the Philip Pullman trilogy: Northern Lights is the first book, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Good books, good character.) Click on them and see what comes up.
I must point out that invented names are potential minefields. If you can invent a word, so can some industrialist or his ad agency, and your little girl might end up sharing her unique name with bathroom cleaners, equine contraceptives or cheap snacks in crackly packets.
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