Is Leonie too weird?

[LewishamMum]

I don't know the sex, but have loved this name since read it in a novel aged about 12. Never met anyone who has it though.
I always assumed it was pronounced Lee-OH-nee. I know it's different in France/Germany (where it originates), but that doesn't bother me.
I don't want my DD (if it is a D!) to go through life spelling and pronouncing her name for people.
How would you say it? I like unusual names, just not names where you have to spell it out all your life.

It’s lovely

I know a Leona. That's nice too

I know two leonie's, pronounced how you say it. Both in their sixties though.

It's not weird at all?

I know a Leonie, so it doesn’t seem weird to me. It’s a lovely name. The one I know stresses the first syllable - LAY-oh-nee.

Not weird at all. I've met a few through work. In the uk it's pronounced as you suggest.

I'd put it in the same sort of ilk as Naomi. Do you think that's too weird as well? There are children with far weirder names, trust me!

Not at all, have taught a few but not loads. I've always said it Lay-oh-ni and never had a teenage girl strop in response so can't have been too far off.

It's nice, I like Leona too

I know 2 Leonies in their 30s/40s and a Leona in her 50s.

I think it's nice and not at all weird.

My teenage neice has this name. Her mother is French. Bil calls her Lee-oni not Lay-oni. Can't remember how she says it. In my head I can imagine her saying both ways.

I met a girl while I was backpacking called leonie and she pronounced it the same as you and I always thought it was a very beautiful name.

I’d pronounce it Lay onie being part French.

I like it. Also Leonora.

One always has to spell one’s name on the phone I find so I doubt it makes much odds.

It's nice. I know a Leonia, but no one pronounces it correctly so she usually just goes by Leona

Beautiful name. Wouldn't go with my surname so couldn't use it myself.

Lovely! I know a very sweet and funny Leonie

As long as your surname isn't Maloney it's fine.

I'd pronounce it as you suggest. I know one in her 30s. Not too weird.

Have a cousin Leonie, she’s a teen. It’s a lovely name.

I've actually met two adult women called Leonie. One in her 30s and one in her 50s.

No, I think it's nice, weird doesn't come to mind.

I'd probably use it as a nickname for Leonora or Leanora, just my taste in names with many options, but it's nice on its own too or as others said as a nickname for Leona.

I think it's a really pretty name 🙂

Like it, and have met a couple of Leonies too, now in their 40s

No, not to my taste.

Lovely lovely name. The actress who plays Lucille in Call the Midwife is called Leonie Elliott.

I really like it.
Leonie
I also like Noèmie (like Noèmie Lenoir)