same names different spellings?

[MrsRV]

Aimee or Amy?
Hollie or Holly?
Amelia or Emilia?

DD1 is Ella and our surname ends "ie".

You know what I'll say!! Emilia :-) In fact I love the fact we've chosen it for dd2 so much I've had a large wall sticker made for the nursery :-)

No going back now then!!!! have you chosen her middle name yet? Your Emilia influence has defo crept onto our list...!

Perhaps Emilia and Ella are are a bit similar? Two identical sounds. What about Amelie?

And we have an Emma and an Emily in the family....

Amelie is lovely but I just can't see a 30 year old woman being called Amelie... Amelia/Emilia is just timeless, ageless and classic. Amelie just seems like a very "now" name.

Hubs likes Amy and Holly. DD when asked what her sister is called says Holly. She can barely even talk but is quite dismissive of other names and insists on Holly everytime.

Have just text hubs with Aria... we shall see. Prob a bit too out there for him though. I seem to have a thing about A and E names...Alice, Aurelia, Amelia, Alicia, Amy, Aria... Emilia, Ella, Elsie, Eliza, Elise. Shame hubs is a fuckwit :-)

Amalia?

Ava? Annalise? Esme? Erin?
Just smack him :D

Do you think we should avoid E names? Love Ava but surname begins V... so all a bit "v"ey.

smack him? poor DH

sorry... couldn't resist!!!!

Oh God!!! Haha. Yes don't. You'll be banged up by the mn feminist brigade...

Maybe so that the girls don't both get post to Miss E. V...

Ummm Abigail, Annabel, Anna, Alana, Aliyah, Amy, Amber, alexia, Alexis, Amanda. I'll keep thinking!

To answer the original question:

Amy
Holly
Amelia

would also suggest:

Heidi
Amarys
Astrid

soontobe... Amarys... Is this pronounced Am(as in I am...)-ar-iss?

Not a fan of -ie instead of -y endings, especially in the case of Amy, it just looks like you are trying to over complicate it. Its attraction is its simplicity

Mrs RV, yes. Also spelled Amaris. Sounds modern but I think it is actually Biblical.

Amber?

Just checked Amaris seems the more traditional spelling and it is a Hebrew name (so would be old testament)

Amy
Holly
Amelia

I also like Anaïs and Elodie.

And I think Nina and Dinah go well with Ella...

...that says Anais, btw! But with an umlaut on the i.

How about Amelia and Amy for short? Best of both worlds.

This may not be relevant, and I may be wrong, but I think Amaris is a Hebrew word now used as a name, especially in America. I don't think it's actually mentioned as a name in the Bible.

On the other hand, Damaris was a woman who lived in Greece, and certainly is mentioned in the New Testament en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaris_%28biblical_figure%29

thanks all.. however, we have now found "the one"!!!! hooray!!!!!!