What do you think of Emilia?

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Any opinions please ladies ?

I've never liked it much. It is my middle name.

Pretty

Love it!

Excellent!

Love it

It was always my preferred name for a girl, until I met my husband whose surname rhymes with the shortened form of it

There are a lot of little Emilia/Amelia/Emily/Amelies around already.

Overused.

Lovely :)

Too common. I reckon I know about 7.

Amelia is fine, if a little over used. I'm not sure the new spelling does it any favours, she'll be forever correcting people.

It looks like it's spelt wrong but I know alot of Amelia's.

The little Emilia I know is half-Italian. I love that spelling of the name. The correcting thing happens with so many names (Catherine,anyone?)that it's not worth worrying about.

I love Emilia. I only know of one.

New spelling? It is my spelling too. I am over 40, I was given the name as it had been my great-grandmother's name.

I think it is really pretty, however it just smacks of 'I like the name Amelia, but there are so many about that I am going to use this spelling to be that little bit different'.

Lovely, better than Emily as it would suit an adult

Beautiful - works for both young and old and has lovely nicknames too - Em, Emmy etc

Emilia is much nicer than Amelia I think, but a lot of people will mishear it as Amelia.

I like it a lot. Few Amelia's around here, no emilias.

I was thinking of using it in the place of Emily which is a family name.

It is pretty, my dh's favourite name for our next dd but to honest I find it a bit of a mouthful.

Four sillybulls. It is a bit!

Love it. Emilia is a different name to Amelia (different root) but equally old.

Much prefer it to Amelia, and think it elegant and pretty and classic. I'd use it except my DH hates it (he is annoying!) and then our daughter's godparents just used it for their baby, so it's out. Love it, though.

Someone said over used by I've never heard of a baby Emilia.

Maybe is a regional thing? I'm in southeast.

My name is Emily and it's nice to have Ems Emmy as nic names when growing up. I really like my name as an adult too. We love Emilia for the nic name reason too and its very elegant.