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Eleanor or Emilia... thoughts?

16 replies

shalalala · 14/04/2016 16:53

Help please! Only have 4 weeks to go and am totally stuck on names

Middle name likely to be Elizabeth
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GertrudeBadger · 14/04/2016 16:57

I love both Eleanor and Emilia - Emilia is slightly more unusual which is nice. Not sure I love the combination with Elizabeth but then middle names aren't much used.

adagio · 14/04/2016 17:32

Definitely Emilia

mrsschu · 14/04/2016 21:41

Both are quite nice but I prefer Emilia.

MyKingdomForBrie · 14/04/2016 21:42

Emilia. Beautiful name!

Sophronia · 14/04/2016 22:57

Eleanor

WanderingNotLost · 14/04/2016 23:16

Eleanor, although I prefer the Elinor spelling. If you call her Emilia people with put the invisible R in the middle, like people do when one name ends in a vowel and the next one starts with a vowel. Emiliarelizabeth. IYSWIM

Itinerary · 15/04/2016 01:32

Emilia

JSarah · 15/04/2016 02:14

Emilia! It's lovely Smile

NadiaWadia · 15/04/2016 06:00

I think Eleanor is a lovely, classy name, although it has been very popular over the last 25 years or so.

Emilia seems to be flavour of the month, but Isn't it just pronounced the same as Amelia? In which case, I don't really see the point of it, why not stick to Amelia? Or is it 'Em-ILL-ee-ya' rather than 'Em-EEL-ee-ya'?

Schmoochypoos · 15/04/2016 06:25

Emilia gets my vote, DS1 has a friend called Emilia and it gets shortened to Mimi which is lovely.

MrsCaecilius · 15/04/2016 10:52

Emilia is lovely, but every other little girl I know under the age of 6 is Emilia. Its the Sophie of my childhood (pretty but prevalent).

Eleanor is lovely too, and not as well used at the moment.

ABitAsleep · 15/04/2016 11:08

Emilia is much prettier in my opinion, but it is very popular at the moment, and has the oportunity for nicer nicknames (Emmy, Milly, Mila, Etc)

Eleanor is more classic, but is also rising in popularity, still a wide choise of nicknames (Ella, Ellie, Nora)

Sunshine511 · 15/04/2016 12:04

I would definitely go for Eleanor. Such a beautiful, elegant name.

Emilia is lovely too, but in my accent would be pronounced identically to Amelia. Amelia is just so so popular just now that I think it takes away from how lovely the name Emilia is. They may also be forever correcting the spelling.

Both lovely names whichever you choose. The things that bother me about Emilia may not be an offput for you.

CruCru · 15/04/2016 17:26

Both are nice but I prefer Eleanor. Emilia is rather fashionable - I know two under fives called it.

SabineUndine · 15/04/2016 21:04

Emilia. Love Shelley's poem To Emilia V:

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

SueTrinder · 15/04/2016 21:17

Eleanor. Emilia ticks too many of the fashionable boxes at the moment although it's a perfectly nice name. Eleanor will date far less and is a really classy name.

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