Clelia for a girl?

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Hey all,

What do you think of this name for a baby girl?

Pronounced as Cleh-Leah , with emphasis on the first syllable.

Awful. Sorry.

It’s too similar to clit / labia / chlamydia

Sounds like a mistake.
Celia and Cecilia on the other hand are lovely names.

TOWIE.

She will be forever Celia. Clelia looks like you're one of those insufferable parents who are as thick as pig muck.

What's wrong with Susan or Margaret?

Wow! That is pretty insulting to all the Clelias out there. Do you have that reaction to all foreign names?

It sounds stupid and like you could spell.

well that's quite the reaction

I know one. People have managed to get their heads and tongues around it 😊. She's not Italian.

I know a few Italian Clelias) pronounced CLELL -IA). It's a nice name which people will hear once and remember

I appreciate that it's a genuine Italian name. However, in the UK it looks like a typo for Celia. Your daughter would spend her life saying "no, not Celia, it's Clelia - it's Italian".

I think that would get irritating very quickly.

It's a pretty far stretch to assume I have that reaction to all foreign names now, isn't it? Don't be stupid.

She won't thank you for that.

Far too much like Cleh-mid-eah.

Also too high a risk of people accidentally spitting while trying to actually pronounce the name.

Celia is nice but sorry Clelia is awful.

It sounds like the sort of thing you’d take antibiotics for, that’s if you could get hold of any.

I don’t understand why using a centuries old name makes one “insufferable” or “thick as pig muck”. Is it simply because you haven’t personally come across the name before?

Oh. You're serious. I assumed it was a typo for Celia.

No. Don't do that to your child.

I quite like it. You will be forever correcting people though.

Now Clell-ia is a nice sound. It flows and its a pleasant sound. It's very different to Cleh-lia as put in the OP's post, which seems very clunky in comparison.

The girl from TOWIE is the only time I've heard and I had to Google it to figure it out. It does sound like a speech impediment.

I also quite like the name, but can't use it since my aunt knows one.

I know there's an Irish actress called Clelia Murphy, but other than her I've never heard the name. It's unusual, but not horrible as some on here seem to think. Is it getting a hard time just because they've never heard it and it's not English?

why would that stop you?

It sounds like a contraceptive