Anneliese or Amelia?

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I'm very stuck between these two for a newborn due in January.

Neither have sentimental value, so I'm completely open to opinions or other options. Throw a spanner in the works!

And now I've misspelt it. Doh.

So, I have one of those names..... the German would be the Anneliese, the Italian Annalisa. Any other spelling is just asking for trouble. It's bad enough with either of the actual spellings. I find English people always want to hyphenate, or put a z instead of an s. Weird. Despite always having to tell people how to spell it, everyone I meet always mentions how they love the name, which is nice 😁

I love Anneliese, the German spelling but also the four-syllable German pronunciation. Here everyone will shorten it to three (which is probably what you want, OP?) so I'm less keen. Still prefer it to Amelia though.

I love Anneliese, the German spelling but also the four-syllable German pronunciation.

How else would you pronounce it?

Ann eh lee se

Anna-Lees.

Annalise!

Anna lyse?

Any UK Annelieses I've met have pronounced their name as anna-leece.

i prefer Amelia

Any UK Annelieses I've met have pronounced their name as anna-leece.

In that case, I'd go for Amelia!

Annalise

Way too many Amelias (and all the similar names), and Annalise is sparky

More like Anna-leez in my experience. (For British Annelieses). What's wrong with that?

In English an 'e' on the end of a name would be silent, not sounded out as it is in German and Dutch. For example Anne Frank is pronounced in English as 'Ann' one syllable, more like the French Anne. But I think she would have said it herself 'Ann-uh' so more like Anna to the ears of English speakers? Not sure though.

Anneliese by far. I love it. Amelia doesn't sound nice to me.

Anneliese

Anneli is a Norwegian variation (pronounced Anna-Lee)

Annaliese or Annalisa :) way to may Amelias around imo

I'm biased as I have an Emilia so I would say Amelia, I don't like your other choice.

I always hear on here about how popular Amelia is. However where we are it isn't common, my daughter didn't have any in her class at nursery and nor any in her class at school. I actually don't know of any others at all.

Annaliese! Amelia is very meh

Both are lovely, but there are a lot of Amelia's (be use it's so lovely).

Anastasia?

Arabella?

Liliana?

*because

I only know one Annalise she wasn’t a particularly nice person. Her mum always referred to her as my Annalise even though she was the only one in DD’s large school if not our small city.

Amelia Jane was a naughty girl in an Enid Blyton book I read when I was younger. Not a fan of that name either.

How about Amy, Amelie, Emily, Emilia, Aurellia (unsure if the spelling but the sweet Portuguese house keeper in the film Love Actually was called this) Anna or Abigail

Not keen on annaleise, not sure why, just sounds a bit fussy to me for some reason. Amelia is so lovely but so, so common now. I know countless little Amelias.

Anna or Amelie are very similar but lovely

Anneliese is gorgeous. It's always on and off our list. What I dislike are the many spellings but then again it's not common so people who meet her will remember her spelling (it's not like you name her Ellah in a world full of Ellas).

Amelia is a bit boring. I also dislike the long meel-sound in it. And it might get confused with Emilia.

Definitely Anneliese.

@caitlinrose , it's not common so people who meet her will remember her spelling**
No they won't. Look at the different ways it's been spelt on this thread when the spelling is in the title.

The large number of wrong spellings on this thread shows that Anneliese is not a name that works in English. It's not a name that can be pronounced or spelled easily by English speakers. Btw in Germany it's a very unfashionable name!

Amelia is a much better option!