Emilia or Amelia?

[Tea1Sugar]

Just that!

Amelia

Neither or either. It's so ubiquitous that I cannot remember which of the ones I know are which.

Emilia

Emilia here (its on my shortlist)

We've already chosen and settled on Emilia tbh. I just wanted to see what the Mumsnet jury thinks.

I prefer Amelia but both are nice.

Depends if you would pronounce Emilia as eeeee-melia or em-elia. I prefer the former overall, but if the latter than it's basically the same name as Amelia to me.

How do you pronounce Emilia? I am never sure. Is it basically the same as Amelia? (uh-meel-eee-uh)? I would want to say eh-mill-ee-uh for Emilia (like you are beginning to say 'Emily' but with different ending. But I could be completely wrong.

I would choose Amelia of the two, just because I know how to say it! Emilia is more unusual, though.

I'd pronounce them both uh-melia, maybe I'm just lazy, it's the same name with a different spelling so I'd go with the more common spelling. Except I wouldn't as it's THE most popular name at the mo. Yawn.

Emilia because it's my dds name

I know an Emilia who is very definitely an eeee-meee-lee-ya

Amelia

Lol was at a Playgroup with about 6 18m-2y old girls today and 4 were called this name !

Reminds me of Emma Gemma Becky when I was at school

I much prefer Emilia, not keen on the Eely sound in Amelia, it sounds kind of whiney in my opinion.

Amelie, slightly different but I love it.

Emilia :)

Emilia definitely. Amelia is an awful name and it sounds very whiney.

Emilia.

Yay! Glad the majority think we've made the right decision :D

Emilia :) Dd's name and with a few corrections everyone catches on to the pronunciation and there are no issues - plus at 2.5 she is soon to correct people if they say it the Amelia way :)

Definitely Emilia. I really dislike Amelia.

Aren't they pronounced almost identically bar the slight difference at the start?

Those saying Amelia sounds whiny, how is it different?

I know an Emilia, nn Emmy. Her parents are so fed up with her being called Amelia they are thinking of changing her name to Emily.

Those with daughters called Emilia, how do you pronounce it? Just want to triple check we'll be saying our baby's name right! In the same way as Emilia Fox and Emilia Clarke, we'll be pronouncing it em-ee-lee-ya.

Emilia. I have a friend who called her daughter this but pronounces it eh/mi/lee/ah which I love