Everyone is getting my baby's name wrong

It’s pretty and better than being a boring Olivia for example which has been done a million times over
It's samey (Emilia, Emily, Mila etc) and looks like a typo.

You can’t possibly be surprised!

That’s what happens when you give your child an unusual name.

You're being a bit rude OP, and tbh you haven't given her a very yoonique name as it's just part of the Amelia/amilyah/Emily family (which are all nice names)

Emila is a fine name (although it could EmeelA or EMILa she will need to clarify). dd and I have unusual names - mine is very rare and often people wont even try to say it (it's phonetic and simple imo!) You just need to be ok/aware of that. I thought that DD's was relatively well known but people trip up on it a lot.

It’s not lazy readers. The name is too close to a mainstream name and many people can’t make the mistakes.

I am not from UK but to me Olivia sounds nicer than Emila which sounds like Camila. Even my iPhone thinks Emila is a spelling mistake.

Poster called your dd poor child because she is the one who will be forever correcting people. Also, why won’t you make your dd’s life easier rather than proving points that it’s the other people who are in wrong.

Too be honest I read the name as Emilia (my DD has a daughter with this name), which obviously sounds very close to Amelia.
It is a lovely name though and people will get used to it, just politely correct people that say it wrong.
Once your DD is at school her friends won't have any issue with saying her name correctly.
I called a child named Lily, Milly for ages (just because I misheard) I wish their parents had corrected me - I felt a right idiot once I realised 😂

Ok so, we're going with rude at we?!

I must admit I read it as Emilia, I’m dyslexic! Be prepared for a lifetime of correcting people. I’d opt for a nickname of Milly myself

I did see Emilia when I read the first post. If I saw you regularly, I'd catch on quickly if corrected though. I think I'd pronounce Mila correctly but might wonder if it were Miller. I'd stick with Emila and just let people get used to it.

When I had my DD I met another mum who was irritated that her child's 'unique' name (not unique in the UK but was unique-ish in the country I lived in for a year) wasn't the only one in nursery and that my DD had the same name.

She comforted herself with the knowledge that 'Oh well, NO ONE will ever spell their kids name the way mine is spelled.' I remember looking at her thinking, that really isn't the flex you think it is.

English doesn't have acute accents.

@Laura3091 where is it from? I’m not aware if it as a name, google autocorrected my search to Emilia too. I think it’s setting her up for a lifetime of difficulty.

Yeh, I think because Emilia and Amelia are so common now, I'd assume one of these if I heard the name out lous. I've never heard of Emila before, and I'd presume you were just saying one of the other 2 names, but quickly

@GAJLY your children will probably be meeting more people in their lives. So plenty more people to correct. It goes on forever I think, right up to when they have to tell the carers in the nursing home how to pronounce their name. That's the price for having an "unusual" name.

You do know that when I say 'read it as', I'm referring to the pronunciation rather than the spelling right?

Emilia and Mila are both super popular right now. So I can see why people would get confused. But if you correct people they will soon get it right.

I would stay with the name. Everyone who knows her will call her by the proper name. Just nake sure her teacher say it properly and the kids will automatically say it too. Soon she'll be able to correct people herself. I have several children with unusual names. People know them now and we've not had any more problems with names. If a substitute teacher mispronounce them, their friends often correct them!

"mil" and "mill" are homophones in English, meaning they are pronounced the same way. Both are pronounced with the /mɪl/ sound, rhyming with "bill" and "still."

ChatGPT agrees with me. I'm a native English speaker.

It’s a lovely name. If people don’t read it properly (their error, doesn’t mean it’s a terrible name), just correct them. It’s on them to learn! And congratulations on your baby girl ☺️

Just correct them every time, say sorry it’s X not Y. It’s a lovely name and even if you had a new name spelt qwerty and Pronounced “Bob” you can still correct people

How would you read it as Eh-Mill-Lah? There's one L? Same goes for Emily. @Portugal1987

To my eye it looks like Emily has been spelled incorrectly by replacing the 'y' with an 'a'. 🤔 I am not surprised that people get it wrong as it is too similar to well known names.

I'd look at that and pronounce it Emil-uh, with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Sorry but it's not a name I've heard before and nor, I suspect, has almost everyone, hence the mispronunciation. You either tweak it a bit so it's more of a familiar name, or you accept that people will get it wrong.

Lol,😂 Gif Gone Wrong!

I hate my name and curse my parents, as the name is unusual and very close to a common name (think Fennifer). You should change your daughters name asap before you ruin the rest of her life. I had to do this myself as an adult.