Is Amelia really that bad?

Just cackled at this because my little girl is called Ottilie 😂

In Italian it is spelt the same but pronounced A - Mel - ia ( the A is the sound A , not the name of the letter )
I think that pronunciation is lovely.

I loved Amelia, but we opted in the end for Emelia in anod to her German heritage. Both shorten down if she desires to do so to so many other names.
We struggled to find a name as she has such an obscure surname that a lot of full names ended up opening up to a bit of playground teasing (think along the lines of Rosie Bottom).

Yanbu - it’s a pretty name. She can always be Milly later down the line if she prefers.
I’ve only come across three of four in 15 years of school at 3 different schools so I don’t think it’s over used either.

It's lovely, don't bother! It reminds me of Catherine Zeta Jones. Watch movie 'The Terminal'. Her name was Amelia in it and it suits her. It's a beautiful name.
I named mine Ian, as it's easy to pronounce in all 3 countries we live. Then I realised only elderlies now were named that. But back home, it sounds exotic 😉 and it suits him well.

It's a very popular name but that doesn't mean it's not perfectly nice.

Yeah tbf "brutally honest" was probably a bit generous. It does appear that people are wankers just because they can.

Your voting makes no sense?

Yes it's a very common/popular name, but that doesn't make it a rubbish name.

I like it.

I’m always amused by its popularity on here - I have 6 children, and worked in schools (peripatetic and covered all primary schools in my area) and have never met an Ottilie

It's better than the MN fave 'Ottilie' by several orders of magnitude, that's for sure...

😂I want to know all your names now.
MN name threads are ridiculous, unless your called Persephone or Otillie you will never aspire to anything great.
Amelia is a lovely name OP, don't overthink it.

I know a lot (and similar) for example in 2019-2020 4 out of the 5 girls born to women in our 80 person office were called Amelia, Amelia, Amelie and Emilia, I never understood why it put them off but if it doesn't bother you then it's fine.

I know two Amelias. They are Mimi and Millie though, only their fathers call them by Amelia.

It’s lovely Op.

I think Amelia is lovely and has good options for shortening too. We had one in my daughters preschool, but none now in her primary school. There’s always a chance of another child being called the same name even if they’re not in the top 100 (which happened to us and really isn’t a big deal!).

Popular names are popular because they’re widely liked, versatile, easy to pronounce and suit many cultures! Amelia is nice. Also, I hardly know any despite having school age children!

It's neither nice or rubbish, to me. It's just a name.

Yes, it's currently popular but that's hardly going to hamper your child.

If you and DH like it, that's all the matters.

I mean ... you obviously like it, it probably suits your little girl - why on earth would you let the fact that it's popular make you feel sad about it?!

It's yet another toxic side effect of online life as opposed to real life - it fuels unhappiness and insecurity around even the most personal and innocuous decisions. Unless you want to be one of those absolute tools who feels compelled to saddle their poor kid with something 'youneek' (to show off to the social media sheep herd they're intrinsically part of), why let it affect your happiness with your choice?

I was one of 4 in my class with my name. Nobody mistook us for one another or made any of us feel like a less special snowflake. My son was named after a long-dead relative - we really liked the name and it didn't occur to us there'd be any other kids called the same thing. There were two others just in his pre-school and a shit ton of them at primary and secondary! Sometimes names just have a bit of a moment and it doesn't make a person less of an individual because they're called the same thing as someone else.

Amelia is lovely. Enjoy your little girl and don't worry about it.

The name Amelia is beautiful, timeless and classic and passes the high court judge test with flying colours. Do not listen to the rubbish on here. A lot of the names lauded on MN are totally batshit IMO.

It’s a lovey name. I really like it. Just ignore people.

What it comes down to is this: would you rather have a name you, your child’s father and your child actually like, or one that’s considered unusual? Because that’s all there is to it in the end.

Even names that are considered unusual won’t necessarily stay that way. My name was uncommon when I was born, but a celebrity with the same name got big in my early teens, and suddenly it was a really popular choice. I looked it up and it’s still Top 40 now, but nowhere near as popular as it was at its peak.

A very small number of “classics” aside, names go in and out of fashion every couple of decades (and just as there are only a few classics, very few names date that badly). You’d have never called a little girl Iris or Ivy, or a boy Alfie or Archie, when I was young, as those would be considered old people names. Yet now you can’t move for them, whereas the popular names of my childhood (Nicola, Louise, Julie, Matthew, Steven) would be unusual for a baby in 2024. It’s impossible to predict.

Lovely, timeless name.

My friend's Amelia has morphed in to a Mimi which is cute too

Beautiful name but i decided against it as when my daughter was born in 2016 it was the number 1 girl's name, followed by Olivia which i also loved, but we didn't want such a popular name.

It's a perfectly good and fine name 😀

YABU - but purely based on the fact you are taking any notice of online articles.

You chose a name you liked; simple as that. Stop overthinking.