What do you think of these?

[welliesandpyjamas]

Esme
Esmina
Emina

A clear theme there
They all sound lovely and feminine to us, plus Esme is an old family name. Our two sons have family names.

Esme! God , it's beautiful! Go with Esme!

Are you going to accent the last 'e'?

:)

No, no accent, just keep it as it was used in the family (Esme) if we go with it.

Esme

Ah, another one for Esme :)

Do the other two sound 'wrong' or too unusual or do you just prefer Esme?

Esme definitely. As long as the Twilight connection doesn't bother you! (no doubt Twilight will be long gone by the time she gets to school age anyway)

Ah, twilight doesn't even mean anything to me (although I'm guessing it's a vampire type of programme iirc?) so pretty safe there!

emina = enema

Go with Esme :)

I quite like the sound of Esmina actually, also like Yasmina, more so than Esme tbh. I also often struggle with the pronunciation of Esme (the French way or the English way?).

I don't like Emina.

Esme, pronounced Esmee not Esmay.

Esme
Esmina
Emina

Definitely Esme, the other two don't sound like 'proper names' imo

Esme

The other two sound odd and not that pleasant to me.

Amina is an Indian name and lovely.

Thanks for the extra posts :)

Emina is a Bosnian name. We lived there for a while. Pronounced Em-eena.

Esmina we thought was a nice mix of the other two names but it turns out it's a genuine name anyway! Pronounced Es-meena.

I like Amina too, winkle2, but know one already so it's further down the list.

Oh, and it would be Esme pronounced Esmee.

Esmes are everywhere - dull.

I like Yasmina, but not Esmina

Emine?

Esme

Emine doesn't sound feminine ebough to me. Yasmina is nice, will have to have a think about that one too.

I knew an Emine - I think it's Turkish.

How was it pronounced?

To sound like Emily

That's nice then. Thanks.

my niece is esme and it's pronounced es-may. have never heard esmee and wouldn't be mad on that to be honest, not half as pretty sounding. have only met one other esme (esmay) and both little girls are gorgeous little cuties so think it's a lovely name.

Love Esme, there isn't one at my DDs school if that's any help.
The other two sound a bit made up and I don't like Yasmina at all. HTH.

Esme is LOVELY. "Esmee" is a perfectly standard anglicised pn. Go for it.

I also really like Emma. It's so classic and low-key. A very beautiful name.

Esme is winning this thread so far! I've searched for it in past threads and sometimes it seems to get voted against due to its recent popularity!

We've never met one so that sort of helps. Plus it's very special that it is one of DH's family names. (But the other two names are also lovely...)

What would go as a middle name with Esme? Any nice ideas?