to find the name Amelie really cringy?

[ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight]

I know people get inspired by films for baby names but isn't it just...trying too hard, to be whimsical and bohemian and classy when in fact hundreds of sturdy English girls are now lumbered with the name Amelie...

It's not about the name, it's a very pretty name, more about the 'try hard' aspect, I actually heard a girl called by 'Amelie Mello' yesterday (like in the film)

Ok flame me now, you know lots of elfin dainty pixie like Amelies and it isn't the slightest bit pretentious...

I think the name kat2907 is more cringey, frankly.

Well Yojojo I daren't tell you one of them is called Dolchay and they other one is Gabanah

It's just a pretty name. I doubt many people chose it directly due to the film, it just made them aware of the name. Lighten up I say!

oooh fright, I love what you've done with the spelling, you've made it more unusual. Lovely.

Actually dolce and gabanna sounds a bit like Dulcie and susannah!

Ta Maggie never heard of those btw

Ok then. Another name I always wanted to call a DD is Emilia, after the Othello character. It's a totally different name to Amelia but would you have told me to 'just use Amelia' or even Emily?

It's a lovely name - there are plenty of worse names you could lumber your child with. Trawl through some of the MN name threads and you'll come across a few

McKensey

for example

or See-ob-hann

Oh - btw though - do you mean English or British?

I worked beside a girl who insisted on her name being pronounced SHOW-bin

Apparently Chev-on sounded too common

ha ha

Personally I love the name Amelie. And I have not seen the film so therefore do not associate teh name with svelte, whimsical, bohemian French girls.
It is just a lovely name. Nothing wrong with a sturdy English girl being called Amelie. And as for Emilia (I absolutely love that, wish I had thought of it, dd is Emily which of course I also love)

btw Fright - I remember your dc's names from threads years ago [am not a weird stalker, honest) and love them both! Great names!

That said I heard the name Millicent at the school I work in recently - now that is a lovely name!

Have not seen the film??!

Thankyou very much Hippi for liking their names!

There were lots of Wendys after Peter Pan and lots of Mathilda's after the Roald Dahl film. I think it's nice - except when I don't think the original film was much cop - eg Jonah after Sleepless in Seattle makes me cringe - but only because I thought the film was crap!

i don't know the film you are talking about , but the only Amelie I know is at secondary school ,must be about 13 by now I should think.So yes YABU to say that people have only used the name after a film.And as for 'saddled with' well , you could say that about any name.

I've always thought it sounds like "Emily" gone wrong too.
That said, I did work with a very beautiful English doctor with a Greek husband who was also very attractive who called their first daughter Amelie. She was a stunningly lovely looking child..that colours my opinion a little.

So you are saying an English person cannot use a French name as they're not French, so it would sound silly?

Then what about English people who use Irish, Welsh, Spanish, American .... Names without the appropriate accents do they sound silly too? Cause by that logic you are ruling out one heck of a lot of names!

Nice name but agree with OP

It'll be a name in eastenders soon no doubt and we'll all have forgotten it was originally french-like Pauline

Never seen the film, have thought it was a beautiful name for many years having first heard of it watching Amelie Mauresmo playing tennis.

Agree with OP. Why not use Amelia or Emily both nice names.

And ellokitty of course people can chose whatever name they wish but IMO it sounds abit odd when people with absolutely no connection to a country use a name very much identified with that country. Amelie is in that category also Luca. There was much hilarity in the UK a while back at the popularity of Kevin in France, think Amelie is the English version of that. Plus its very popular now.

I also feel abit sorry for Graces, what if you grow up strapping and sturdy and not abit graceful? People will snigger seems abit unfair to set a child up for that.

I know Fright - not seen the film, am a bit uncultured at times, but then I am a hippopotamus after all

But will try to be less stalkery Actually, I just have a very good memory for names. I know most of the children in the dc' yeargroups (90 children each) by name. Useless memory for anything else mind. Now, where do I live again....

Kerala, am with you on Grace. Which is exactly why we did not name dd Grace despite really loving the name. Dh is slim and quite graceful but I am a bit ahem... sturdy shall we say and I was terrified my dd would take after me. As it is she is a lean longlegged gazelle of a thing and Grace would have been fine.

As a first name, Grace is a tad difficult to live up to.

I like Amelie.

My friend named her baby Amelie yesterday. But then she's half French and her husbadn is French - is that OK?