Last minute doubt over spelling..help!!

[Tea1Sugar]

Dd2 is arriving by section in 10 days. We've chosen Emilia Ruby, which I adore by sound. But now a little bit worried that people will assume it's Amelia which I know is insanely similar. I don't care about popularity. I'm a primary school teacher and don't know any Amelias or Emilias but lots of Amelies.

So Emilia Ruby
Or Amelia Ruby

When I say Emilia it sounds very different to Ameelia-

A-meel-ee-a
Em-ill-ee-a

Haven't explained it very well but you know what I mean! I prefer Emilia

I like the Em sound at the start of Emilia. The Am sound in Amelia makes it seem like A meal iya and emphasises the word 'meal' in the middle. Imo.

Apparently Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones has ramped up it's popularity!

Emilia is far prettier

In RL I have only ever heard "Emilia" pronounced as a version of Emily.

Whereas Amelia starts with an 'Am' and has a longer vowel sound in the middle.

It'd choose the spelling based on the pronunciation you want.

teaSug... only 2 days to go!!! how exciting. stick with your first instinct... Emilia.

as for us... we have our final name, good job too as being induced in 2 weeks now. We have Phoebe May :-)

Hi RV! Elcs tomorrow ahhh! SO excited but fracking scared! Definitely ready to meet her now, I'm so over being pregnant. I never imagined I could get so huge. Why are you being induced? Hope everything's ok

Please don't be put off by the lack of arm or whatever the medical issue is. I have an Amelia and a Claudia, I doubt very much people look at them and think "oh congenital arm defect" and "lame" are coming to visit.

I think you have made up your mind, but the reason we discounted Emilia was because we thought we and her would spend all our time saying "No it's E-milia not Amelia"

Anyway both gorgeous names, good luck!!

She's here! Emilia Ruby arrived at 6.46pm on 15/4/14 weighing 7lb 13oz. She's beautiful

Huge congratulations OP! Enjoy her xx

How lovely, congratulations. Rest yourself and enjoy the baby.

Congratulations! We have an Emilia too. Fab name

Emilia - much nicer. Italian variant of Emily. Amelia always makes me think of Enid Blyton's naughty Amelia Jane.

My mum wanted us to call DD Aemilia, complete with the dipthong ligature in the spelling, after the Renaissance poet Aemilia Lanyer! So you could always combine them (might be a bugger to spell though )

Oh just saw you chose Emilia! Congrats!!

my 11 yr old ds was going to be an Emilia, lovely name

hooray! baby Emmy is here! hope you're not too breakdowntastic & all is going well. A week tomorrow for us... excited/scared!!!!!

Lovely name xxx

Lovely name OP, congratulations :)