What do you think of Cosima?

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How would you pronounce Cosima?
I also like Eloise... Any thoughts?

CAWZ-i-ma Here's an example of German pronunciation

I adore this name. I would choose it over just about anything.

Love Eloise. Hate Cosima, sorry.

Cosima...dreadful...Eloise..lovely song..lovely name

Cosima is horrid. Eloise is much nicer.

sound like a car, the ford cosima

Not so keen on Cosima. Know a Sima and i think that's pretty.

Cosima. Hmmm. Maybe it would sit better if this were continental europe. I'm afraid I am reminded of pants, probably incontinence ones.

Perhaps too near gossamer?

Prefer Eloise.

nigella's daughter - nn = mimi

sounds like quasimodo to me i'm afraid

i like eloise - prefer elise

fwiw

I like it :)

I much prefer it to Claudia and Cordelia which are popular on MN.

Eloise is lovely, also like Louisa.

Love Cosima

love Cosima but think it would work better in Italy.

Prefer Eloise, or better still Elise.

Bloody awful!

Cosima is terrible, but I like Eloise.

Thanks for all your feedback - really useful. Cosima seems to be a Marmite name! Eloise seems more popular - are there many young Eloises around? Not keen on nn Ellie though... prefer Ella.

I like Cosima but prefer Eloise (is my dd'd middle name). I know one 4 yr old Eloise (SW London) but no others.

I love Cosima and would pronounce it the Italian way. Eloise is used more often in England I expect. I like Eloise too but prefer Cosima.

I love the name Cosima, but the only one I know in RL had it shortened to Cossie, which just screams 'bathing suit' to me.

My ex named his dd Cosima and they call her cossie for short which always makes me think of a bathing suit....ugh.

Foxytocin, just out of curiosity, what other way is there to pronounce Cosima except exactly how it is spelt? I've never heard it pronounced in the UK any differently than I'd heard it in Italy.

sorry, see where you might have been coming from: just heard the ever-so-slightly-different pronunciations in German and Italian. not a massive difference though.