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Anyone with/knows an Amelia - what are her nicknames?

71 replies

VixenAndCub · 25/07/2022 21:28

Hi everyone,

I'm currently pregnant with baby #2 and playing around with names. I don't know the gender yet. Boys names come easily to me, but really struggling with girls names.

I do really love Amelia - but I feel pretty much everyone will shorten it. For any parents of an Amelia - or know someone with that name - what do you call them? I've heard of Amy and Lia (Leah) mostly as nicknames.
Do people confuse her nickname for her actual name?

(I would call my daughter Amy or Leah and avoid this issue, but we already know people/have family with these names so can't)

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JoanThursday · 25/07/2022 21:29

I know two amelias and they're both known as Milly.

Watto1 · 25/07/2022 21:29

Millie. And yes, I did think it was her actual name for many months!

DIMooney · 25/07/2022 21:30

I knew an Amelia as a teenager and we never shortened her name, or had a nickname. I never heard anyone else use one either. Probably not helpful!

IDontLikeMondays88 · 25/07/2022 21:30

Melia / MiMi

mrsfeatherbottom · 25/07/2022 21:31

Meels

ClocksGoingBackwards · 25/07/2022 21:31

The two I know don’t have nicknames.

siriusblackcat · 25/07/2022 21:31

Mimi

Loulou1712 · 25/07/2022 21:31

Mia or Millie

DorotheaFrazil · 25/07/2022 21:32

Melie

Garysparrowsthirdwife · 25/07/2022 21:32

I know one who’s mum calls her ‘mealie’ (meal-ie)
she seems to answer to it but everyone else (bar me) call her Amelia

I call her ‘beryl’

no idea why

msssm · 25/07/2022 21:32

Two. One preteen who has never been shortened and one preschooler who has been known as Millie since birth.

RealHousewifeOfEastLondon · 25/07/2022 21:32

Millie

Cally62 · 25/07/2022 21:33

I have a 35 year old dd called Amelia.

She's always been called Amelia..

At school she was A.J. First and second names.

Millie.

Miels.

Never ever.thought is lia...😁

Jellybean23 · 25/07/2022 21:33

The Amelia in our street is called Emmy. She's never called Amelia, which is such a shame.

womaninatightspot · 25/07/2022 21:33

I have one she is very much Amelia, I used to shorten it to Mia but she doesn't like it so have stopped.

Houseplantmad · 25/07/2022 21:34

Meely

Porthia · 25/07/2022 21:41

Couple I know are “Millie” / “Milly”.

Goesbothways · 25/07/2022 21:41

Milly and Meils.

Emilia is a nice spelling. Different non potential

Goesbothways · 25/07/2022 21:42

^nick name

RockinHorseShit · 25/07/2022 21:43

Meli, Meils, Amelia & Lia

Throughabushbackwards · 25/07/2022 21:45

Milly
Millie
Miele
Mia
Mim
Mil

Beamur · 25/07/2022 21:45

Mimi

Cait73 · 25/07/2022 21:46

My friend Amelia was meany moo

Fiddlersgreen · 25/07/2022 21:46

I know 2 and they are Mimi and Mila (mee-la)

CallMeBubbleDarling · 25/07/2022 21:46

Mi-Mi