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Emilia or Zoe

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pinkblossomdreams · 01/07/2020 00:48

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IlanaWexler · 03/07/2020 14:26

Zoe. & you don't need the ë - keep it simple.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 03/07/2020 14:14

Zoe. Much more unusual and a really lovely name.

finallychangedmyusername · 03/07/2020 14:12

Zoe would be my choice, although Emilia is lovely. There are a lot of Amelias/Emilias/Emilys currently.

Rubyandsaphire · 03/07/2020 13:04

Emilia is lovely.

Lavenderblues · 03/07/2020 12:09

I don't like either but would choose Zoë as Emilia is beginning to sound a little dated.

Tillygetsit · 02/07/2020 23:23

Zoe.

123Dancewithme · 02/07/2020 22:46

Zoe, definitely. Emilia is bland.

JammyHands · 01/07/2020 21:57

Emilia. There is a very beautiful poem by Shelley:

To Emilia V -
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory -
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed -
And so they thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on ...

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 01/07/2020 18:51

Zoe sounds a bit eighties to me.

Thisismytimetoshine · 01/07/2020 18:50

Of the two, Emilia would be my choice, though I'm not crazy about it. I really dislike Zoe, for some reason.
Chloe, also, so I think it's just the sound I find displeasing...

Loveley · 01/07/2020 18:45

Maybe choose a name personal to you.
If any of those are personal then chose this one. Hop this helped x

lymphopenia · 01/07/2020 18:20

Emilia is my favourite but both are lovely

bananamonkey · 01/07/2020 18:16

Gah @daisypond I wrote ë first then got distracted and changed it thinking it was wrong, I blame sleep deprivation

mencken · 01/07/2020 18:14

Zoe - meaning 'life'. What better name?

bananamonkey · 01/07/2020 18:13

*with an E

daisypond · 01/07/2020 18:13

I like the ö for Zöe

That’s not right. It would be Zoë. But I think it’s redundant these days. We don’t write Chloë either any more. Either way, lovely strong name.

bananamonkey · 01/07/2020 18:08

I love both names! I like the ö for Zöe

I have an Emilia, I pronounce it Em-ee-Lee-yuh like (Em like Emma or Emily) which to me sounds very different to Amelia but I do find myself saying “Emilia with and E” because when you say it quickly people don’t realise the difference and Amelia is common. It can be annoying, I don’t regret it though as I still love the name.

DramaAlpaca · 01/07/2020 15:50

Zoe.

Emilia is lovely, really pretty, but Zoe is a strong, fabulous name and there aren't many around at the moment.

Pemba · 01/07/2020 15:48

lovesunshine 'they'll probably get a lot of people calling them Amelia'.

I find this very confusing about the name Emilia. I want to say 'emmill-ee-yuh' but a lot of people seem to pronounce it identically to Amelia ('ameel-ee-yuh'). Even the actress Emilia Fox seems to use the same pronunciation as Amelia. And if the pronunciation is identical then I sort of think, what is the point of Emilia then? I like Emmeline more. How do people with an Emilia say it?

But overall I would definitely go for Zoe, less fussy and more unusual at the moment. It's gorgeous. (Yes I know it should have those accents, but I don't know how to produce them on my keyboard!)

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pinkblossomdreams · 01/07/2020 13:35

Thank you! It's seems Zoe is the forerunner. lots of Emilia and Millies about.

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Poppydaisys · 01/07/2020 12:06

Zoë spelled like this.

Zoe looks like Joe or Toe Smile

breakfastclubb · 01/07/2020 10:39

Zoe is a brilliant name, one of my faves.

LoveSunshine01 · 01/07/2020 10:12

I love Emilia as a name, but it's true that those names are very common now, also they'll probably get a lot of people calling them Amelia.

Zoe is beautiful, and relatively unusual now! I'd go with that!

len1234 · 01/07/2020 09:20

Definitely Emilia Smile

villamariavintrapp · 01/07/2020 09:16

Zoe

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