Mila or Emilia?

[mummysparkles95]

I really cant choose between these two names, which do you prefer? Thanks

Emilia

I love them both! Have the best of both worlds and use Emilia with Mila as a nickname

Mila!

Emilia

Emilia is lovely.

@daisymill

I love them both! Have the best of both worlds and use Emilia with Mila as a nickname

Exactly!

Emilia

Where do you live op? A distant relative in the west Midlands has a Mila. It does not sound good I'm afraid.

I prefer Emilia.

@Faceicle curious as to what you mean with how the name sounds? Thinking about Mee-la, I'm not sure that their are many accents that would really change that.

It's more of a tone than a phonetic pronunciation quality. So the accent makes it sound more like Mia-luh rather than Mee-la and the child's grandmother has quite a dour or depressing sounding way of speaking. But it's pretty limited to that name, as for instance Millie (pronounced Milloi) sounds fine and Isla (Oi-luh) also sounds fine.

Emilia / Amelia is really really common so I would pick mila which is less common

I don't know how much people consider regional accents when they're naming? We did, there are so many different accents across the UK I wouldn't be surprised if it's the most diverse country. I hadn't considered how Mila could sound before relative arrived!

Emilia. I really don’t like Mila.

Mila but I love it as a nickname for Milena (like mila kunis has done)

Milena just reminds me of Melena which is a medical word for black tarry poo.

Emilia. It's classical, very international and Shakespearean - it's just a shame it's easily confused/soundalike with more popular Amelia.

Mila is cute but very trendy and also used quite often as a nn too (for Emilia/Amelia, Camila, Milena etc).

Whenever I see Mila I'm never sure whether it's Meela or Miller.

Mila is much nicer.

Mila reminds me of millia- a skin condition!

I prefer Amelia.

Emilia/Amelia is incredibly popular at the moment, I'd go with Mila!

If you can get over the pronunciation issues with Mila (is it Mee-la or My-la) then I’d go with that as it’s just a little bit different.

That said both names are lovely!

Emilia is lovely.

I have an Amelia (dreadfullly common on here I know 🙄) but is known as Mila as a natural nickname

Well I have an Emilia so I'm biased. It's a beautiful name. I don't like Mila though.

Everyone always says Emilia/Amelia is so popular but I haven't come across any at her nursery yet. I think it might be a regional thing and it's a lot more popular in areas in England. I'm in Scotland and there's none in her 2 classes at nursery or her little sisters. There's 4 Emily's though! My dh wanted Emily and I said it was too popular and I much preferred Emilia anyway.

Mila it's less of a mouthful