Sarelia

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Meaning springtime from the Latin Cerelia. Wdyt.

It sounds ok, but honestly i would think when she tells people her name, they would say “what?”

No.

It sounds made up and people won't know how to pronounce it.

Is it SAR EELIA or is it SAR ELIA?

Iit's suh-REE-lee-uh with the same sort of intonation as Cecelia.

Not having heard of it as a name, it sounds like some kind of old fashioned disease to me I’m afraid. “Oh, she had a bad case of sarelia ”.

Obviously I wouldn’t say that to someone’s face IRL; I might ask where the name comes from and assume one parent had heritage from a non-British culture. Or just clarify if it’s pronounced Sar-EH-li-a or Sar-EE-li-a and just not ask any further.

I instantly thought of food borne viruses sorry I actually prefer Cerelia

See neither of my options for presumed pronounciation were what you want, OP. That’ll be an issue. Poor woman will forever be explaining her name and having people calling her Sarah.

BFG But Cerelia makes me think of celery

As I'm sure you know, Cerelia is the origin of our word cereal, and the brand name of a very big industrial bread-making company in France.

The goddess was named Ceres, not Cerelia. That was the name of the festival held in her honour. It involved horrible cruelty to live animals - just look at Wikipedia. Ceres was the goddess of growing grain and fertility - not springtime.

Sarelia is a World of Warcraft name. And also the brand-name (pronounced Sah-RAY-lee-ah) of a French jewellery company. It is recorded as a surname in late 19th cent London.

I'm not being critical, just offering a bit of information. The choice of a baby name is obviously up to his/her parent(s).

The Roman festival for Ceres is Cerealia, not Cerelia. It's a festival held in April.

Springtime in Latin is ver.

Again, fine if you like it! But good to be aware.

Ooh OK Attica how would that be pronounced? Ker-ree-AY-lee-uh?

In Latin it would be something like:
keh-reh-AA-lee-uh.

In English, you could do various things:

seer-ee-AA-lee-uh
seh-reh-AA-lee-uh
seh-ree-AY-lee-uh

There's a risk of sounding a bit like cereal...

Amelia, Ophelia, Amelia, Cecilia? I'm not sold on your original suggestion though, it sounds a bit made up.

"It's like Cecilia but with an r"
"Recelia?" ...