Emilie?

[Kveta]

DC2 is apparently a girl, and we already have a DS called Oliver (Oli). Although DS thinks DD should be called Jack or Pingu DH and I are leaning towards Emilie. However, we don't love it like we did Oliver.

Name needs to be fairly international as in-laws don't speak English, and our surname is pretty rare - to the extent I think we are the only ones in the UK!

So, any suggestions for names like Emilie? We can't use Lucie btw, have too many friends with Lucies!

(middle names would be Eliska Audrey, but can't use either as 1st name)

Does it have to be spelled like that? Emily is a lovely name, I don't like your extra letters though.
How about Magali or Otteline?

I chose an "international" name as well for the same reasons and had to avoid names beginning with H. The only thing about Emilie, you will always have to say "it's with an ie". I like your DS's suggestion, Pingu is a great name lol.
Names that end in a are a good bet: Anna, Maria, Stella

yes, has to be spelt the Czech way, or in-laws will not be able to pronounce or spell it. Seriously.

Anna was on our shortlist, but we know loads of them. Others we have discounted are Alice (would be pronounced Ali-ts-e), Matylda, Lydia, Liliana. I don't like Alice (sounds like a cough to me) and DH doesn't like the other 3.

It is proving to be a struggle to name this one!!

may yet end up being Pingu!! :o

That's also the French way of spelling it. And it's lovely IMO

It's not got 'extra letters' for the sake of it

There's other options though - Nathalie springs to mind?

Juliana
Katerina
Ottilie
Alena
Eva
Julia
Sara
Iolanta
Karina
Milena
Adele/Adela
Magdalena
Dana
Natalie
Simona
Leona
Alexandra
Teodora
Irina
Ivana
Krista
Krystina

I am not sure why czech relations would not be able to learn to spell it. They will pronounce it the way they pronounce it, regardless of how it is spelt. If you plan to go on living in UK, I would spell it in the more common way to avoid always having to correct people.

"yes, has to be spelt the Czech way, or in-laws will not be able to pronounce or spell it. Seriously. "

Could you have it as Emily on the birth certificate and as the official "English" version and have her as Emilie for the Czech family members? After all, unless you plan to live there, your daughter will have to spell her name all the time for school/friends/work/email addresses etc.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why your ILs might refuse to learn how to pronounce their granddaughter's name. I always make an effort pronounce other people's names correctly regardless of where they come from or how it is spelt. For instance Niamh, Siobhan - I wouldn't say Nee-am or See-o-ban.

we may one day move to the CR, and will definitely spend time over there as a family - so do want her to have a czech name if possible, but not too czech! Oliver was a great name for a boy as it's spelt and pronounced the same in both languages. The only others we have found that are spelt the same are
Anna
Ema (near enough...)
Alice
Alexandra (can't use as nephew is Alexander)
Diana (don't like)
Erika (DH doesn't like)
Eva (pronounced 'eh-va' in czech, and I don't like 'ee-va' pronunciation in English)
Helena (is already in use in family)
Linda (don't particularly like)
Marie (already in use by close friends)
Nina (DH refuses)
Nora (too like my name)
Sandra (see Linda)
Viola (love, but is too like my sister's name!)
Zoe (DH doesn't like)

we have this page for reference btw :o

DH has also pointed out that he would like his children to have czech names to reflect their heritage - if we were in the CR, I imagine they would be given scottish names to reflect my heritage, but we are based in the UK, so will use more Czech names (if that makes sense?).

My in-laws, lovely though they are, would never understand a girl having a name ending in Y. It doesn't fit into their language - girls have names ending in A or E (there are maybe 3 exceptions to this rule -Rut, Miriam, and Ester), and so all feminine words end in e or a. Emily just would not work, no matter the pronunciation!!

If we could use any name at all, I'd be pushing for Seona, but explaining the spelling and pronunciation of that to any of our family would be a bloody nightmare. As our surname is complicated, I want the kids to have easy, fairly common names, but hopefully non-religious, reflecting their origins ones. Not asking for much at all there!!

I see where you are coming from! The reason I commented is that my Dutch relations frequenly mis-spell my common English name, (sadly not Cecily) but I can live with that far more easily than having to go through life having to to spell out my name to everyone.

I know a Czech Helena. Also, there would be no difference to the pronunciation if you spelled it Emily - so there's no reason to say they couldn't pronounce it.

My dd2 goes to school with a Dutch Emilie. Don't think there has been any problem with spelling her name, in fact it differentiates her from the other 2 Emilys.

I know a French/UK Emilie and she has never had a issue. Baffled as to the view that it's easier to use Emily. I'd always ask ANY Emily how it was spelt. The same way I'd ask a Jane/Jayne or a Jenny/Jennie.

I do like Klara TSC but our surname begins with a K, and so we have decided to avoid K first names. I will run Natalie past DH too, although I'm not over enamoured with it.

Glad others don't see the spelling issue - my name only has one possible spelling (think margarine, Bonnie Prince Charlie), but I am forever asked how to spell it. And neither of my grandmothers can spell Oliver yet, after 2 years of knowing one... I also wouldn't be fussed if her name was sometimes spelled Emily, so long as it was officially Emilie.

Oh, and we are keen on nicknames, so she would most likely be Emmy or Millie (probably Emmy, as Millie and Oli don't really go well together!!). She'd be Emilka for her czech nickname though.

thanks all :)

sorry, didn't read your initial post thoroughly.
What about Emilia?

I have little problem with alliteration, but KK is not a good initial set IMO (and KEAK or KAK would be bad too. EAK or EEAK is not so bad, I don't think. DS is OAK, which is fab :o)

gah, this is hard work, this naming thing!!

KK is used in textspeak for OK - well my daughter and her friends use it anyway.

I love the spelling and prefer it to Emily

Emilie is nice.

How about Sophia, Sofia, Emmeline, Louisa?

Emilie is fine.
Hana, Valentyna, Helena, Adriana

What about Evangelne - shortened to Eva with the czech pronounciation?

Petra
Olga
Nina all work ell in both.

Martina
Michaela

As someone with a common English name with an unusual spelling I wouldn't recomend Emilie - I had so man problems I actually changed my name to the usual spelling.

It might not be so much of a problem now with children having various spellings but something to consider

There are some wonderful ones on that link you posted (and some horrendous one - at least to UK ears)

Adriana
Cecílie
Elena
Ester
Evelína
Gabriela
Ilona
Petra (although this will, for me, always be a Blue Peter dog!)
Tamara
Zoe