Amélie or Rosalie?

[Mh0296]

Which name do you prefer?
I love Amélie, but there seems to be lots of little Amelies and Amelias running around at the moment.
Rosalie I have a love-hate relationship with. Most of the time I think it's beautiful, but sometimes it strikes me as made-up (which I know it isn't!) and a bit of a mouthful....
Any opinions?

Rosalie definitely I love the name Rose so its an obvious choice for me. I'm never put off if a name is quite popular so even though Amelie is quite popular at the moment I still like it. Rosalie just seems more elegant to me

Millions of Amelie's it will date badly

Both are pretty but I much prefer Amelie even though it's so popular.

I love Rosalie and you can shorten it to Rosa, Rossy, or Rosie/Rosey if all 3 syllables feel too long to use sometimes. They´re all nice little nicknames. (I think it´s an important factor - other kids or adults will always shorten a name. I love Victoria, for example, but ruled it out as I dislike "Vicky").

Amélie is a great name but in my personal opinion SOOOOO popular!

I love Rosalie, it is very near the top of my own list. Rosie for short, Roz a bit more grown up sounding for later.

I would think Amelie would get called Emily all the time, don't like it nearly as much.

I prefer Rosalie.
Amelie seems very insipid to me, and neither Emily nor Amelia.

I also love Rosalind, Rosamund, Rosaleen, and Rosina fwiw. Also the Irish name Roisin.

I prefer Amelie.

Rosalie is a lovely name.

I love Amelie!

Another vote for Rosalie. Plus I know it would annoy me that the accent would always get left of the e in Amelie - like I've just done.

I'm a fourth-generation Rosalie, and have been Rosie since birth (never needed a more "grown up" nickname) - I might be a bit biased, but I think it's a timeless name :)

Not Amelie! I know so many Amelies that its becoming ridiculous.

Ooh I'm not sure. I like both. I was very keen on Rosalie for our DD2 - as well as many other Rose- names - but ended up choosing a 'Rose' name as I wasn't keen on the 'Roz' sound of it.

I'm glad it's not just me that remarks on the number of Amélie/Amelias around at the moment. I understand why as it's a beautiful name but wouldn't want any future DC to be known as Amélie lastname all the time!
pacificrose I've never met/heard of a real life Rosalie over here, but had a colleague called Rosalie when I was working in France (beautiful name btw!) Do people manage to pronounce it/ spell it okay over here? I'm going to guess that thanks to twilight more people have heard of it?

Mh0296 people do ok with the pronunciation - sometimes it comes out roz-a-lee, but most of the time it's rose-a-lee. I actually hated that it was in Twilight, only because Stephenie Meyer described it as an old-fashioned name, the kind grandparents would have!

Agree I know way more Amelie/Amelias than I do Sophie/Sophia and I know at least 9 of them.
I think one of my dcd had 4 Amelies in his class, we live on the same street as another!!!!

Rosalie.

Rosalie, it's beautiful

Rosalie, for sure.

Rosanna also lovely.

Hundreds of Emily/ Emilia/Amelia/Amelie girls here. Every girl except one has this variety of name in DS class...he's 7. It's not much different in the younger classes either.

Rosalie is the name I have chosen for a girl, so nice to know someone else is considering it too! I love the name Rose but think its lovely to have a longer name you can shorten

I was worried about the twilight connotations but as many MN pointed out, that franchise will be long forgotten in a few years!

I love Rosa myself but couldn't convince dh!

Rosalie. It's beautiful. She could you Rose, Rosie or Rosa. Don't like Amelie aside from it being too popular it sounds like people are mispronouncing Emily when they say it

Another vote for Rosalie from me. Although Amelie is lovely too (popular for a reason I guess).
Another name that sprung to mind with the ones you like was Coralie, but I don't know if that's one you like? But thought I'd mention it just in case!