Emile

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Thoughts?

My first thought was of the children's book 'Emil and the Detectives' but I see it's a different spelling. I see there is an earlier thread about this name..
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/748522-Opinions-on-Emile-for-a-boy

I like it a great deal.

Emil is great! But don't add an e at the end or are you French?

Beautiful- very nice

You'd get the wrong pronunciation without the last 'e' though? It should be 'emeeel' but would be 'emil'.

Really confusing pronunciation

Emil = Emeel

It's a fairly popular name in Germany, an old name becoming trendy again.

Emils also an option (Latvian). I like it.

Really lovely, we considered it for our son. The French spelling is with an 'e' on the end, but also an acute accent on the first 'e'.

Adding an E makes it look feminine and prone to being pronounced Eh-myle

So please stick with Emil! Great name!

Unless you're French of course

Agree with pp. Emil not Émile. It's too close to Emilie at first glance. Fabulous name, though. Have you read 'Jo's Boys' by Louisa May Alcott? It's a sequel to Little Women. Fab Emil in the story.

It's a bit confusing - somewhere between Emil and Emilie, which makes me unsure which name you are asking about.

I like it. I also prefer the spelling Emil but I don't think the -e spelling would be too problematic.

I like Emil. Great underused classic.

Why would you add an e to it? It's pronounced Eh-meel, not Eh-meel-eh .

Emile is French... Stop implying that it's made up I know a gorgeous Emile - go for it!

Oh, adding the e, doesn't make it pronounced 'Em-il-ee' just like Louise isn't 'Lou-is-ee'

Dollie nobody said it was made up, just that at a glance people might not be sure if you meant Emil or Emilie

How is it prononunced?

I read it as ee-mile

Is it a boys or girls name

Well, someone asked "why would you add an e to it"...

It's a boy's name - Emile is the French version and it's 2 syllables.

"I read it as ee-mile" Excactly, unless you're French you might pronounce Emile like that. But I don't think the op is French or living in France.

Emil is pronounced Eh-meel. There can be no confusion imo.

I also thought "Emil and the Detectives". Think that's a Swedish book.

It's a German book by Erich Kästner