Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Klelia?

88 replies

Nescafegoldblend · 27/06/2023 12:01

What do you think? Or Clelia is better?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
Passerillage · 28/06/2023 09:24

Passerillage · 28/06/2023 09:18

The ancient Roman heroine? I mean, Classicists will get it, but hardly anyone else.

Apologies - just saw that it's fairly common in Greece and Bulgaria. I did ancient history at uni, so recognised the name from that Roman history. She rescued lots of hostages in a war and was celebrated for her bravery as a war hero with a statue.

FatNoMoreSue · 28/06/2023 09:23

Horrible. Sounds like a skin condition.

Passerillage · 28/06/2023 09:19

MerryChristmasToYou · 28/06/2023 09:12

Cliona is awful. Looks like a mash-up of Clio and Leona

Ah... Clíona is a perfectly normal Irish name. It's not a mashup of anything.

Passerillage · 28/06/2023 09:18

The ancient Roman heroine? I mean, Classicists will get it, but hardly anyone else.

MerryChristmasToYou · 28/06/2023 09:12

Cliona is awful. Looks like a mash-up of Clio and Leona

WhenIWasAFieldMyself · 28/06/2023 07:37

continentallentil · 28/06/2023 07:31

Imagine Jamie Oliver trying to say that with his thick tongue, or anyone with a lisp.. or anyone really, it produces a lot of spittle sound

Cliona
Chiara
Claudia
Cassia
Celia
Carolina

Are all nice, pick of of those

Imagine not being so foul about someone with a known speech impediment.
And fwiw, a lisp causes problems with sibilant sounds. None of which Clelia contains. So he'd have a lot more trouble with 2 of the names on your list.

@Hadtocomment it's bizarre really. It comes up often when people ask for opinions about this name. How the leap is made from sharing the same initial sounds /kl/ and letters "cl" to being reminded of an STD or part of a woman's anatomy beggars belief. Nobody makes that leap with Chloe or Claire. Maybe it's just ignorance and they're unaware of the ancient classical origins of the name.

continentallentil · 28/06/2023 07:31

Imagine Jamie Oliver trying to say that with his thick tongue, or anyone with a lisp.. or anyone really, it produces a lot of spittle sound

Cliona
Chiara
Claudia
Cassia
Celia
Carolina

Are all nice, pick of of those

Hadtocomment · 27/06/2023 23:29

Wow people on this thread are being really awful. You might not like a name but why such rudeness and extremity? Why never consider how others might be called it or know people with it or have children with it? Constantly comparing to genital diseases because you've never heard something before - what are we - 12? I think this forum is getting into a trolly kind of place. People may ask advice on names, but they don't need this sort of thread it's just nasty.

maranella · 27/06/2023 18:22

It's awful - it sounds like a remedy for chlamydia and no one will know how to pronounce it.

Relaxd · 27/06/2023 18:18

I’m sure she’d get called Smellier Clelia or something awful in the playground.

Giselletheunicorn · 27/06/2023 18:17

Yep definitely sounds Klingon to me. Avoid avoid.

Seashor · 27/06/2023 18:16

Ha, ha, ha, ha

Hugasauras · 27/06/2023 17:25

If you do use it, do it with a K as it looks less like a typo of Celia that way

mayorofcasterbridge · 27/06/2023 17:23

BiscuitsandPuffin · 27/06/2023 12:30

Sounds like a pharmaceutical designed to cure an STD, sorry.

My thoughts exactly! Sorry OP. Pleas - just don't!

Surely2023IsTheYearForMyRainbowBaby · 27/06/2023 17:21

Is it Leila with a K at he beginning or Kle- eye- lah

MerryChristmasToYou · 27/06/2023 15:45

@Hadtocomment , the pronunciation will depend on country/native language.
Klell-ya in the UK, more like Clail-ya in italian etc

Hadtocomment · 27/06/2023 15:22

I wasn't so keen on the name Clelia and then reading it as Klelia I really like it! I've no idea why the K makes a difference. How do you pronounce it exactly. I looked it up and there seems to be Clelya or Clay ee a suggested , but I don't know what you are thinking. Cleh-ee-ya or Clay-ee- a or Clay - ee-ah or Clell-lee-ya.

As for the comment about "elia" endings- WHAT? Amelia, Celia, Cecelia, Camelia, Aurelia, Cordelia- these are all widely used and some really popular.

I think it very much how it's pronounced as to whether it works really and there seem to be a few ways?

Boomboxinmyattic · 27/06/2023 14:41

Kalamata ❤

SirQuintusAureliusMaximus · 27/06/2023 14:35

Agree it's kind of tongue twister to pronounce and it ugly sounding.

The the -elia ending carries with it a strong association of medical conditions no one wants as in have you met my three daughers:
Gonorrhoea
Diarrhoea
and Klelia

Please don't do this to an innocent child. That's a life long curse.

Original poster
Nescafegoldblend · 27/06/2023 14:21

Hoppinggreen · 27/06/2023 14:20

Sounds like something you would need to request a private room in the Pharmacy to discuss

@Hoppinggreen I am in the office and I started laughing loud with your comment! Bless you!

OP posts:
Hoppinggreen · 27/06/2023 14:20

Sounds like something you would need to request a private room in the Pharmacy to discuss

SleepingStandingUp · 27/06/2023 14:19

Nescafegoldblend · 27/06/2023 12:49

I get that you don't like it for various reasons but honestly what is the problem with the tongue?

I mean can you not say claclaclaclaclaclacla quickly?

OK forget pronunciation, it's just horrid.

It sounds like you're mispronouncing something even though you're not. Not even sure what you'd be pronouncing but it sounds wrong regardless.

Celia is cute. Camelia is nice.

MerryChristmasToYou · 27/06/2023 14:15

I'm not keen names like Chloe, Clara and Clemmie, the CL sound sounds harsh in UK accents.
There are lots of L-heavy names (Lily, Lyla, Lilia, Layla) popular.

It might be nice in an italian accent

Enko · 27/06/2023 14:05

It's not my cup of tea. Not sue to pronunciation I just don't came much for the harsh sound of the start of the name.

I like unusual names but this is a no from me.

So1invictus · 27/06/2023 14:03

@MerryChristmasToYou the pronunciation is more like clei-(rhyme with tray) lia, each vowel given its full strong form, as there are no short/long/weak vowel distinctions in Italian.

I don't mind it @Nescafegoldblend though I'd spell it with a C.