Emily - too boring?

[holler]

Would be sister to Josephine (nn Josie).

And is it also too twee / little pretty girly?

Its a "nice" name. In that its inoffensive, nothing nasty can be said about it, but I wouldn't rave about it either.

Also wouldn't put Emily and Josie together.

It is nice enough.

Really struggling to come up with a girl's name. Let's hope it's a boy :D

How about Emmeline? Its similar.

Have just texted DH in excitement - I love it (is she the cow in magic roundabout?).
But not sure about rhyming of Josephine and Emmeline.

Emmeline sounds like a great alternative to Emily. I really like Emily but share the same concerns as you. How would you pronounce Emmeline?

Emily is nice but a bit 'meh' to me. Love Emmeline but do think the rhyming thing might be a problem - anything else on your shortlist?

The cow in the magic roundabout was Ermantrude (sp?) wasn't it?

Sorry from nickname I presumed you meant you used Josie most of the time!

I'm pretty sure the cow in the magic roundabout was called Ermintrude! which isn't all that pretty a name...

I'm not keen on Emmeline and Josephine together.....

Elizabeth and Beatrice are on the shortlist (Betty and Bea). But see my waffling on the alliterative names thread about these!
DD is Josie most of the time, but not always.

with another dd called Josephine I think Emily will feel she drew the short straw..

Sorry yes I think it is too boring.

I have to agree that Josephine is such a lovely, beautiful (and unerused) name that Emily is a little dull (and overused) in comparison.

Emily is never boring!!! I love my name :)

Have you heard that song 'running in the family' the lyrics are 'in the back seat of the car with Joseph and Emily' just thought I'd share.

Emily is a lovely classic name and goes well with Josephine/Josie.

I agree that Josephine is pretty and underused in comparison to Emily.

Emmeline has the positive association of Emmeline Pankhurst.

What about Emmelina? Or Evangeline?

Although the name Emmelina doesn't seem to appear in the more recent statistics, a quick google shows it definitely been used throughtout history -

www.google.co.uk/#q=emmelina+born&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=ctr:countryUK%7CcountryGB&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&sa=X&psj=1&ei=pu0sUPKbBci00QWyvoCIDQ&ved=0CEMQpwUoAQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=59125a52a671d2d0&biw=496&bih=237

Thought you might like to know, as you weren't sure if Emmeline and Josephine were too similar.

How about Elodie or Eloise?

I like my name too. It's formal and informal and quite dignified. It's certainly not more boring than any-one else's name!

Sorry this is random,but how about Juliet? I think it goes really well with Josephine.Both beautiful names and quite rarely used these days.

I think it's lovely & also think it goes well with Josie

I think Emily and Josephine go together really well.

I wouldn't have an Emmeline and a Josephine. It's just too silly and twee sounding.