Finally decided on a girls name WDYT

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Think we've finally decided on a girls name.......

Mila Esme (Mee-Lah Ez-May)

Sibling is Noah. What do you all think?

alonerinIona - Lila is pronouncer Leela. It's Hindu. It's also purple in German, pronounced Lee-la. Lyla and Lilah are the spellings for your pronunciation.

The only way you wont get people thinking its m-eye- la is by spelling it Meela but tbh that doesn't look right, you might just have to suck it up if some get it wrong

I'd pronounce Mila as Myla like Milo or Lila.

alonerinIona - Lila is pronouncer Leela. It's Hindu. It's also purple in German, pronounced Lee-la. Lyla and Lilah are the spellings for your pronunciation.

Try telling that to my niece and all the other girls/women who are called Lila pronounced lye-la

Sorry that was to BloominSloe

Mila to me is pronounced Mee-ya, no 'L' sound.

Beautiful

It's also purple in German, pronounced Lee-la

Many names and words are pronounced differently in German

And in English Lilac is pronounced Ly-lac and not Leelac!

Is pronounce it My la Ez May.
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Mi-lah as

Mi as in the i in in, and law note to follow so....

I know a Mila pronounced Meela and one Mye-la. Same with Lila (Leela/Lyla). See also Maya (May-a/ May-a). Plenty of names have different accepted pronunciations. It’s not a big deal.

It’s a nice name, either way, OP.

May-a/My-a

I’d pronounce it Meela too but as lots of people have said if some people pronounce it incorrectly when they see it written down it’s not really a big deal is it? My name gets mispronounced a lot, even when I introduce myself people will say it back to me incorrectly. I don’t tend to correct people, if it’s someone I have enough to do with it gradually dawns on them and if it isn’t then it doesn’t really matter.

Not sure I like Mila but I do like Esme.

Beautiful name op.

I initially read it as My-lah, because it's not a name I'm familiar with. But when you tell me it's Mee-lah then that's how I'll pronounce it. Because I'm not a dick. Just don't hang out with dicks and it'll be fine

I like Mila. (My grandmother’s name) I prefer Es-mee though. Es-may sounds wrong.

It's a lovely combination but Mila will always be pronounced 'miller' to me, Mee-la just sounds wrong and just doesn't flow. Though I know it's a popular way of pronouncing it

Once you have decided, tell no one until you are introducing her to people.

Miller is nice too.

Lovely name!

Miller is a boys name, isn't it?

@FrancesCrawford
You are trying to import the Eastern European pronounciation and it won't wash in English. if your surname is Kowalski or Knavs you might get away with it

I love how you have chosen one of the most common Polish surnames, equivalent to Smith or Brown.
It ain't just equivalent to Smith: it has the same meaning.
(And Knav is Melania T's birth name)

People of all nationalities should be afforded the basic courtesy of having their names pronounced correctly.
Oh, I agree... and I do my best with Caoimhe and Aoife O'Leary and Agnès Leclerc (Ann-yes) and Gertie Johansson (that's Yar-tee to the uninitiated) but imagine if there were a kid called David Jones in my class and the parents insisted his name was pronounced "Dav-eed" like in French? And don't get me started on the parents who insisted that Lilley should be pronounced "Lie-lee" ... and the other set who wanted Tatiana pronounced Tashy-arna....
It works the other way to: the Irish family living in France christened their daughter Bridie - yeah, fine.... but just so you know, the French will always call her Breedie because that's how you pronounce an "i" (and Cathy will have to answer to Catty, because those are the rules of French pronunciation.)
As far as we know the OP is British, or at least English-speaking and it is incredibly pretentious to insist on defying the logic of the English language spelling and pronunciation system.... not to mention setting your child up for a lifetime of misprounciation of their name.

I think it’s very lovely but you’ve got two names there that can be pronounced in more than one way (I would say My-la Ez-mee).

So - I wouldn’t.

Sorry!