Cecilia V Cecily

[LizzyMargaret]

Curious to see which people would choose Cecilia Violet or Cecily Violet? With an older sister called Aurora.

Cecilia was the default spelling in my youth, but as I said I'm a bit old. The 'e' looks odd to me.

Love Cecily, would have the been my second child's name had he been a girl.

I'm sure Cecilia is the 'correct' (for want of a better word) spelling. Cecelia is a variant which is not as attractive to look at, IMO. I agree with Iwantedtobe EmmaPeel on the extra 'e' looking odd I'm a bit old too and loved Emma Peel

Well I agree with you both, @DramaAlpaca and @IwantedtobeEmmaPeel and I’m 27. I don’t think either of you are “showing your age at all” haha.

Or that sentence with the quotation mark in the correct place 😬😂

Cecily is prettier.

Cecily. Or Cecile. Or Celine.

You're absolutely right @LizzyMargaret, I don't look a day over 60; ahem 30. God I'd love to be 27 again.

I think either of your name choices would be lovely.

Cecilia for me!

Love Cecily.

I prefer Cecily, but to be honest I like Violet the best by miles!

Yes I agree @PeterRouseTheFleshofMankind I like fairly unusual names usually but not cicely not Cecelia and not Cecil.
Cess pit. Silly. Nah
Violet is lovely.

We are leaning towards using Violet as her middle name as Aurora has an honour name for her middle too but it is an option.

We also have Penelope Violet on our list. We’re torn on Esmée Violet too. If we use Violet as a first name then it’ll be Violet Esmée. I think there would be less spelling or pronunciation issues with Esmée in the middle spot. I was very torn on the spelling but after some ‘research’ it seems Esmée gets the Ehz-May pronunciation and is the feminine spelling?

I much prefer Cecily. Actually added it to my list after your previous thread :)

Much prefer Cecilia to Cecily which I find a bit twee.

I know a few Cecilias and they’re all spelt that way not Cecelia.

I know two sisters called cecilia and aurora. Both lovely names and quite unusual.

Cecilia Violet is lovely.

Personally I can’t stand Penelope or Esmée - the latter isn’t practical as the e acute will get dropped off a lot (partly as people don’t know how to do it on their keyboard) and then it will get pronounced Es mee.

But do you pronounce Cecilia the Italian way ?

@BringBiscuits Small world!

@TatianaLarina That’s my worry with Esmée or Esme. I think we’ve pretty much ruled it out. I don’t think we’ll face much confusion with it being in the middle spot as it won’t be used very often.

I've got a Cecelia although I think Cecily Violet goes better.

@Thistly I pronounce the first syllable the same as Cecily - Sehs

Cecily is my favourite.

@CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook That’s a lovely way of describing our Aura’s name :) I’ve always thought of Cecilia as quite girly and frilly which matches Aurora.

I find Aurora’s name quite difficult to match up with others. I’m quite curious to hear some suggestions based on just what you’d name a sister to Aurora. I’ll have to look it up!

Cecily, prefer it to Cecilia which is too fussy for me. AlsobIME four syllable names are almost always shortened but 3 syllable names are not always as are less of a mouthful. So if you don’t like the short forms, pick Cecily.

Alternatives: Selene is similar sounding and would go brilliantly with Aurora in terms of meanings. (I suppose it might get pronounced Seleen though...)?

Or Serena?

I love Cecily Violet.