Everyone is getting my baby's name wrong

Did you make that name up?

So you expect people to know how to say a name you made up, oh dear poor child she is going to have that for the rest of her life, and you will have people thinking you brought it on her.

My point is that she doesn't realise how much she's going to make her child suffer.

My name isn't English, I haven't suffered by correcting people on how to pronounce my name. I'm a Londoner and "different" names are super common in schools, big companies etc because it's a diverse & global city.

Try-hard ‘unique’ names are as ubiquitous and ‘boring’ as the Olivias and the Archies imo.

Just because it's not common in English doesn't mean it's try hard or "unique"...

It's a beautiful name and also Mila as a shortened version is probably what her nickname will become anyway. It is nice to have something a bit different and there are many more unusual names given to babies these days. I called my eldest daughter Elisa (El -is - a) and people called her Alisa, Ailsa, Lisa, Ellisa to name but a few but eventually most people got it and it didn't frustrate us at all. Her father gave me a card in hospital when she was born and it said to myname and Alisa. That was because he can't spell! 😁

Aren’t there a few ways to pronounce Alicia ie you can’t know just by seeing it written down.

Natural that people will glance at the name and then add an “i” as Emilia will be what they are expecting to see spelled out. I expect she will end up being called Em, Unless you are members of the Royal family or characters in Downton Abbey, so it will sort itself out.

Disappointed to see the OP defending her name choice and in the same post slagging off the name Olivia. What happened to live and let live?

“It’s pretty and better than being a boring Olivia for example which has been done a million times over”

Try-hard ‘unique’ names are as ubiquitous and ‘boring’ as the Olivias and the Archies imo.

It’s one of those things I think.
my little girl is Lorelei. It’s pronounced loruh-lie but she’s often mispronounced as Loruh-lee. it’s mainly at the doctors more than anything. Grinds my goat but there’s not really anything I can do.
I just drop her name back in pronounced how it should be at any given chance

I had that with my daughters name Alicia. Which is quite common but Including close.family members pronouncing and even spelling it wrong ..we just persisted not always correcting people but eventually they got it. ..

Apparently it’s a Polish name, @KnickerlessParsons - the female form of the male name Emil - so not ‘made up’.

My point is that she doesn't realise how much she's going to make her child suffer.

I would have pronounced it Em-ill-a.
If you make up names you have to put up with people not knowing how to pronounce them.

I read Emil and the Detectives as a child and assumed it was EH-mill, so would say Emillah.

If everyone is getting it wrong you either think everyone in the UK is dim, OR it might be that it’s just not a name people are used to seeing.
I would have said Em-mil-uh
Then I looked it up and see it’s the feminine form of Emil so would then pronounce it Em-mee-luh

@LovingLimePeer ,I think this sort of attitude crops up a lot on here.
For some reason, it offends posters if you point out that a mother-tongue speaker will have a different understanding of the sounds, compared with someone who learnt later, however fluent they may be.

*baby’s name

They do in unique but it's a word borrowed from French.

It’s hard to grasp as English speakers do not pronounce an i as an e.

You do know that the name Emily exists in the UK and is pronounced Eh-mill-ee (or eh-mil-ee in fact as mil and mill can be homophones)?
It is not pronounced Eh-meel-ee with the same 'mil' sound as that in Emilia.

See video below about how to pronounce the word Emily:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQb4w4wG0k

As a further example, the word military is not pronounced with the syllable 'mil' pronounced the same as the 'mil' in the word Emilia?

I could go on... but do I really need to? I am a native speaker and fully understand that the different pronunciations of 'mil' that are available to me.

Once again.
I read Emila as Eh-mill-ah
I do not read it as Eh-meel-ah and I do not read it as Eh-meel-ee-ah.
Once more portugal1987, when I say read it as, I am referring to the pronunciation.

Hopefully you will finally be able to understand this. If not, I suggest a conversation with a native speaker about this topic would be helpful to you.

Tricky one, if it were me I’d maybe see what she prefers when she’s older? I say that because my name is Sophie but my parents and friends who know my parents, particularly from primary school who I’m still in touch with call me “Sophs.”

I don’t mind “Soph” and I’m known as that at work, but for some reason “Sophs” irrationally annoys me when I’m summoned with it and I’ve just never said anything 🤣

@WhitePudding , the name is written phonetically, in the same way as Anita or Marina are phonetic.
The problems are caused by the name looking so similar to Emilia.

Milla Jovovich is MEE-la YOV-ov-itch
I thought it was Mill-uh Yov-O-vitch

It’s lovely but I’d change it to the phonetic spelling else the poor soul will have it all her life. My maiden surname was Wann (rhymes with Swan) but it was always whan/waaaa nnn at school or at medical appointments, people thinking I was Chinese etc.

In the words of Fawlty Towers' Manuel: ¿Que?

Neither of those names are familiar to me. Seeing them written, my brain would pronounce Miller Kunis (the 'u' as in cushion, and the emphasis on Ku) and Miller Jov-oh-vich (emphasis on 'oh).