Camila/Camilla

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Hi everyone, we are due to have our baby girl soon and love the name Camila (pronounced Ca-me-la). However to those I have mentioned the name to, some have mispronounced it as Camilla (Ca-mill-a).

i wanted to see if this is how most people would pronounce Camila. I love the name but don’t love the idea of my daughter correcting people on the pronunciation.

thanks in advance!

Yes I am judging you based on the comments you've made here, which seemed a bit ignorant and classist.

You have added absolutely nothing of value in any subsequent comment.
It's interesting to see where people's minds first go when confronted with a name they don't know - foreign, or "not classy". With quite a common name like Camila I'm surprised so many people are confused by the spelling and pronunciation.

Have you considered Kayleigh ?

Kamla? You’d be missing an entire syllable. Cam-meee-la. Not Cam-la.

And “Camella” would likely be pronounced “Cam-mell-La”. Again, a different name entirely.

Interestingly I know someone with the name Gabriel pronounced gay-brie-ull which is the usual British pronunciation and almost everyone he meets calls him Gabb-ree-ell like in Spanish! It drives him mad! Apparently his mum thought everyone would know the name because of the Angel in the nativity but it seems not!

I would expect people in the UK to say Camilla but then remember to say Camila after correction.

I’ve made the same mistake with names like Eva - I initially assumed eve-ah but quickly learned to rhyme it with never.

OK, keep your hair on. Spell it Cameeeeeeeelllllaa then.

OP, go for another name. Very few will get it right, like me.😊

I’d pronounce Camila as you would, op. I know a little one, who goes by Mila.

I’m really surprised by some of the completely uncultured responses on this thread but perhaps I shouldn’t be.

It’s a lovely name with either pronunciation.
But how long shall we leave it before she ends up with a silly nickname like Cammy?

People will just think you didn’t know how to spell Camilla. And the poor child will have to spend a lifetime correcting people’s mis-spelling/mispronunciation.

Wouldn’t it be typed Cammella….?

I wouldn’t do it. She will spend her entire life correcting people

What about Mila? I would pronounce that as Mee-la

In the UK her name would become

Camila Withoneell Surname

or Camela LikePamela Withasee Surname

I would choose Camille and it’s beautiful.

I love the NN Cami 🥰

I agree Camille is a beautiful name, far nicer than Camilla in my opinion.

”Cami” is effectively how Camille is pronounced by French people, so it’s hardly “silly”

People regularly misspell and mispronounce my name. It really isn't the end of the world. If you like the name just go for it.

It might not bother you, however I can only speak for myself and it pisses me off no end that people cannot spell or pronounce my name.

Sick to death of having to spell it and as a very shy child, I hated having a “unique” name to be singled out.

If OP lives in England, personally I would use an English spelling for my child. But that’s just me.

The OP obviously has doubts or would just go with their choice and to hell with everyone else as many posters on here choose to do, obviously their choice, but it’s the child who suffers not the adults.

As for the poster assuming everyone is totally ignorant as we don’t all know every single Spanish name, I doubt she knows my real name as it’s not on any lists or used commonly, so I therefore must assume she is ignorant right? No. It’s just my parents gave me an unusual name which I do not use, I use a shortened version.

It always surprises me how obsessed by spelling these threads get.

Most people I meet tell me their names. The way they say them is the way I try and say them. I won't favour my guess of how their name is spelled over their own understanding.

If I see the name Sara written down, I won't be confident I know how that's pronounced until I hear Sara pronounce it.

If I see Camila written down, I'll ask Camila how she pronounces her name.

If I name my daughter Sara or Camila, I'll be prepared for more people getting it wrong than if I called her Amy or Jo.

It’s nothing to do with “keeping my hair on” or being even remotely irate, you just misread the name and seem largely ignorant of the fact that non-English names exist.

My own name (outing) is Colette. C'est un nom (prenom) Francais, non?

My sister's name is Elena and my brother is called Jack. Boring old Jack.

I wonder who knows me and my ignorant insular British only made self?

Ciao!

I think most people of a certain age would know your name from The Flumps, surely?

And yet here you are, acting like an ignorant Brexit-voter. Strange how the turkeys will vote for Christmas.

Hi. My daughter is Camila (Ca-me-la) however a lot of people pronounce her name Ca-mill-a. We nick name her Cami. My husband is Portuguese.

@Pootle23 if you mean me, I didnt say everyone should know every Spanish name. I think maybe you didn't quite get what I meant.
Instead of just saying "oh so it's pronounced Cam-ee-la, I've not heard of that - is that a variant on Camilla?" the poster I was replying to was commenting about it not being as classy as Camilla! Laughing at the spelling of a name or going on about how "unclassy" it is, is just unpleasant - whether it's a foreign name, or just an alternative spelling.