Imola for a girl? Thoughts....

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Considering using Imola, as the name for are soon to be born baby girl, with Mae or Rose as a middle name. Know it's unusual, and can't find out much about its use as a name, and don't want to discuss it with family... Thanks

Emilia's nice! Or Romola nn Romy?

Ebola.

Sounds like a nasty virus or disease to me.

Imola is a 'comune' in the metropolitan city of Bologna (previously known as the province of Bologna), which in turn is in the administrative region of Emilia-Romagna.

All of which is meaningless in English. ‘In the metropolitan city of’ means something different in English than it does in Italian. Essentially Imola is a small town (a medieval ‘city’) some way from Bologna, in the ‘county’ or region of Emilia Romagna. Which is the problem of getting things from google or your ‘cousin’.

I’ve lived in Bologna and we have a house about 1.5 hours drive away.

sorry. I immediately thought of Ebola and then Imodium. so it's a no from me.

Romola is very pretty.

Although certain posters will complain it’s a place ‘in the metropolitan city of Florence’.

I’d go for Imelda or Imogen

Sounds like a disease or a cream used to treat a disease to me.

If you can’t find much about its use as a name I’d assume that’s because it’s not usually considered a name which would put me off using it.

My first thought was Immolate. Then I read middle name would be May and I thought of Enola Gay.

So it's a big no from me

I really wouldn't, OP.

Sounds like a cancerous nipple

Or thrush treatment

Why not Ilona?

We’d better ditch these on the basis of sounding like illnesses:

Georgia - Giardia

Ruby - Rubella

Lisa - Listeria

Maia - Myelitis

Mia - Measles

Amelia - Anaemia

Camilla - Campylobacter

Carenza - Influenza

Right, yeah, that's ... exactly the same

But 'Imola' is not a common word or even a name to most English speakers. That's the difference between the list of names above and why most people don't associate them with the diseases you've attached.

(I instantly thought of Ebola, too! )

You are just being a bit obtuse tatiana. Your Italian knowledge would definitely strongly equate Imola with the race track which gained notoriety for the death of Ayrton Senna. I cannot hear the word without thinking of that, along with many other people, Italian or otherwise.

We also have to assume OP is UK based and , therefore, many people would not know here how to pronounce it. Therefore any associations people might have with Ebola/ Enola Gay etc are valid. Plus, since OP has not come back , we have no idea whether she is pronouncing it 'correctly'

And fwiw, I know a Ruby who is called Rubella as a joke because her parents gave her the middle name Ella...

Out of interest OP, why don't you want to discuss it with family? is it because they will say ' isn't that the racetrack where Senna was killed??'

Immediately thought ebola.

The potential for teasing is massive and based on this thread no redeeming features at all...

Don't do it OP!!

I really wouldn't stick a child with a name like that... sorry.

A quick Google does reveal it to be a reasonable standard Romanian or Hungarian name which may be OP's thinking. But its connotations here are too unfortunate.

I think Ilona is Hungarian so may be a nice alternative?

I thought Imola Mae sounded like emulsion or paint colour.

I live near Imola. It doesn't even sound nice. That's a no.

Sounds like a diarrhoea medication.

You are just being a bit obtuse tatiana. Your Italian knowledge would definitely strongly equate Imola with the race track which gained notoriety for the death of Ayrton Senna

While I am sorry the poor man is dead I don’t give a flying fuck about motor racing. Neither do many Italians. It was over 20 years ago.

By that token the names Gilles, Paul, Albert and Austin would be out.

Why are you insisting on equating well known names that have a tenuous connection to X, with an unknown name that's 100% associated with Y...?