Hermione or Emilia?

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Two older siblings with traditional names. The middle names will be Taylor Jean.

Hermione Taylor Jean

Or

Emilia Taylor Jean

?

Definitely Hermione. It is strong and I don’t think the HP connection matters.

Emilia is so wet and SO overused.

Would you rather me an Emilia with half a dozen other Emilia/Amelias/Emily/Amelies in your class? Or would you rather be a Hermione?

Was just about to say the same. I do prefer Hermione to Emilia (just so popular nowadays) but Hermione Granger’s middle name is also Jean. I just think it’s a bit much maybe.

I love Emilia. Mia and Matilda are fine. Clover and Hermione definite no in my opinion.

Emilia & I love nn Emi . Good luck & Im sure once you see her face you will think “ oh yes , she looks like an ??? “

I have a Hermione. She gets Mione for short. We are HP fans, as is she, but it’s not the reason we chose it, we chose it because we loved it. A couple of people ask if she was named after Hermione Granger but never in a negative way. When we chose it the franchise was probably having a bit of a lull in popularity, books and films had been out a while, fantastic beasts and cursed child hadn’t happened yet. To my knowledge no one at school calls her Hermione Granger/makes fun of her/makes Harry Potter references and we’ve only ever met one other in passing.

Hermiones middle name in Harry Potter is Jean
So her name is Hermione Jean Granger does that change your view?

Hermione is so entwined with HP, I don't know why anyone would consider it. Emilia is such a popular/common name, there will be loads in her nursery/school year. Neither!

My name is Bella - I always get asked if I was named after the girl in twilight despite being significantly older. Any name can be subject to bullying. Go with Hermione which can and will be shortened up whatever suits. Millie, H, Mi, Mine etc.

If anyone references the hp reference the who cares - there are worse characters to named after!!

Also just throwing the name Hattie out there incase you wanted a different H name.

Yes Harriet was up there in an earlier long list, shortened to Hattie. I do love it. We're in Australia where Ts often get turned into Ds so we're not sure Haddie has the same pizzazz.

I'm now erring back to Hermione.. why is this so hard!

Hermione is amazing and underused and beautiful. Emilia is overdone and way too close to the even more overdone Amelia. Hermione is cool and Emilia very boring.

Emilia.

Hermione is a dreadful name.