Leonie and Kylie

[lawrencecostin]

These seem to be regarded as "stereotypical" Australian names. In fact, I would have been named Kylie had Mum had a girl.

Thoughts on Leonie and Kylie as names?

[PenelopeFlintstone]

Also meant to say that Kylie is an age 30s-40s name too. You don't get babies called Kylie or Leonie, in my experience.

[PenelopeFlintstone]

Loads of Leonies where I live in Australia. A middle-aged name like Karen, etc.

[KoalaDownUnder]

Lee-OH-nee

[whatatod0]

how is Leonie pronounced? Is it Leer-knee?

[kmini]

I'm Australian. Have only ever known one leonie and probably surprisingly a handful Australians and kiwis called Kylie in my entire life (Kylie Minogue excluded of course)

[reuset]

Kylie not so good, bit on the dated side.

Leonie I must say I didn't know of any Australian connection. I have French connections and it's a very popular and long established name in France. Léonie I would spell it. Now you can see the correct pronunciation

[LockedOutOfMN]

I love Léonie.

Sorry, I meant to type Leonie . (My phone's French ).

[LockedOutOfMN]

Sorry, I meant to type Leonie . My phone's in French.

[LockedOutOfMN]

I love Léonie. I do like the name Kylie but it reminds me overwhelmingly of Kylie Minogue (who I adored as a child and still have a soft spot for) to the extent that I'm not sure I could get past it as someone else's name; I've never met a Kylie although I appreciate it's a popular name in Australia.

[BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington]

Leonie doesn't have any Australian associations for me. Nice enough name.

Any recovery Kylie was making from its 1980s naffness has been dealt a body blow by the Kardashian sister. The Washington correspondent on the Channel 4 news is a Kylie, her name always seems at odds with the job she does. Not that it's held her back!

[TaggieRR]

Out if interest is it pronounced Lee- oh-nee or Lay-oh-nee? I like the name.

[1horatio]

I really like Leonie. The name was extremely common in Switzerland in the 80ies/90ies.

There are admittedly other L-names I prefer. Leandra, Leontine, Lyra, Laila, Lydia.... (not that you asked, oops... ) but Leonie is really lovely :)!

[MrsMeeseeks]

I like Leonie as all the (Aussie) Leonies I have met have been lovely! I don't think it's used much over here.

I really dislike Kylie, sorry.

[Pluto30]

Very 70s/80s Australian.

I can't see any Australian thinking Leonie is a lovely name now. It's just so common among that age group, and isn't particularly associated with class.

Kylie is straight up awful.

[Mrsjudelaw66]

Leoni is great. Kylie, not so great.

[Uiscebeatha85]

Leonie is a magnificent, beautiful, amazing name! My name is Leonie

Kylie... meh.

[pieceofpurplesky]

I love the name Leoni(e). Not so much Kylie.

[TheTrollinator]

Leonie is nice but I find Kylie very dated and not in a good way.

[KoalaDownUnder]

Kylie is bloody awful. I cannot imagine it making a comeback here in Aus anytime soon. (Will probably be top baby name in 2072 )

I don't think of Leonie as particularly Australian at all. I also think it's way nicer than Kylie!

[AvaBird]

Leonie is very common in the North West where I know many teenaged Leonie's and Leoni's. I still like it as a name though. Kylie's awful

[Jooni]

Don't like Kylie at all. Leonie is lovely though!

[eyebrowsonfleek]

Leonie is much better and very popular in Germany where I used to live.
I think that Kylie Jenner has spoiled the name for future Kylies. To someone my age in the UK it sounds very dated as it makes us think of Kylie Minogue (1980s/1990s). By dated, I mean names that were popular at that time but not popular now so Nicola, Gemma, Tracey, Joanna.

[MollyHuaCha]

Leonie is nicer than Kylie

[SpuriouserAndSpuriouser]

Kylie sounds more Australian to me. The only people I know called Leonie are Dutch/German, apparently it's quite a popular name in those countries. I think it is a lovely!

[AuntieStella]

I prefer Léonie because Devil's Cub is one of my favourite books.

It has zero Aussie associations for me.