Is Amelia really that bad?

I don’t know many Amelia’s but I know an Emelia, presumably chosen because it’s different enough - both parents are English but on one side Irish Italian and the other English maybe Irish.

I do know an Amela, but she’s Bosnian and is in 50 now.

It’s a lovely name! Only 2 Amelia’s in the whole school here. It’s not that common everywhere.

Agree.

Some people go out of their way to be ridiculous about names and I often think they likely pass such thoughts on to their children which later leads to bullying others especially those with “unique” names when often many such names are from different countries and heritages.

It's lovely but I prefer my daughter's name which is Amelie 👍

Yanbu
I personally think people posting names online for the approval of random strangers, many of whom may be horrible people or people with completely different taste//values to you is a weird thing to do. I think MN should get rid of the baby names board.

Amelia is a lovely name, you don't need approval - as long as you like it, that's all that matters OP.

It's a gorgeous name, popular names often are. We only ruled it out because of the medical condition thing, which a lot of people either aren't aware of or don't care about.

I can never read boy name threads as mine are sometimes mentioned as common and shouldn't be shortened etc. Everyone thinks differently and voices it on this anonymous forum, best not to read it

Amelia was my first girl choice btw!

I love the name but I spelled my Daughters name as Emilia just to be different lol ! I think I would much rather a common name than a 'unique' one.

It's a lovely name. More importantly, you and your husband chose it and like it, so other people's opinions are irrelevant really ☺️

I've never met one irl so it can't be that rinsed out.

It's also a great name regardless

I've loved it ever since hearing a local news presenter signing off with the name when I was a teen. I dreamed of eventually having an Amelia who went by Milly. But DH vetoed it when we were choosing as Milly just made him think of the tragic death of Milly Dowler. Names rise and fall in popularity. But Amelia is I think a classic so it will never age in the same way some names do. There will just be notably more of less at any one time.

I would take opinions on the name boards with a pinch of salt, there’s some very, erm..strong (batshit, weird, over the top) reactions/opinions on there sometimes!

Amelia is a lovely name. Very pretty and I think quite a classic name.
I also wouldn’t read too much into popular name polls - I’ve only ever met 2 Amelias, despite it being featured in the ‘top 10 girls names’ often, same with the name Olivia, I’ve only met a couple over the years.

It’s a nice name but in no way uncommon…

Not all opinions are going to be the same, so if you like the name, that's genuinely good enough. It really doesn't matter whether randoms on the internet like it too!
Popular names are popular for a reason - because they sound nice!
Now some people prefer more unusual names and that's fine too, but often kids like not standing out. As a parent you just have to choose what you like at the time and hope your child grows up to like it too.

OP, with all the respect in the world, why do you care what a load of strangers who you don't know online think??

It can't be changed, you like it, and you can either embrace it and choose to keep loving it, or let mumsnet potentially spoil it for you!

For what its worth, it's a beautiful name 😉

Amelia is a beautiful classic name. I personally prefer a normal name to an out there name.

I like the name but I do prefer Amelie

YABU if you went for BJ! 😅

DD2 has Amelia as a middle name for my great grandmother. It is very popular, which was why we didn’t want it for a first name.

In DD1’s mixed class of 30 at primary there was Amelia, Emilia and Amelie, out of about 15 girls,

People are more likely to be brutally honest online

There seems to be a trend of people being contrary rude dickheads online. I think most of the utter twats on MN are posting things literally just to be rude. They don’t even believe the bilge they spew most of the time.

It's a nice name but at the time it was very popular.

Why get sad about it, its her name now.

Amelia is a lovely name. It is very popular but that’s to its credit, I think. It depends what you’re after as when we were naming our DD we didn’t want a super popular name but we still settled for one in the top 30.

It’s just down to luck whether it’s common in your area or social group. No Amelias in my DD’s year but 2 Xanthia’s and about 4 James.

Amelia is a lovely name & if you like it then it’s the best name for your DD.

The MN baby name forum might be the most critical place on gods green earth. It's a lovely name, stop worrying about it.

Never heard my name being described as whiny. Wtf does that even mean? It's never been shortened to Amy for me either. It's only popular in the last ten years really. I like it op and I have only ever had compliments on my name.