Aelia for a girl?

[Insomnia23]

Opinions please!

I would pronounce it Aliyaah on first swift read.
I have a spelling name that swift reads wrong 90% for people. Way to many vowels.
You are condemning your child to a lifetime of negative interactions from certificates to talking to anyone at the end of a phone.
Points though.. It's unguessable on Wordle

It sounds made up or like another poster says - a vowel pick on countdown. Sorry op it’s bloody awful

I think it's from the Greek, not Latin.
Helios is Ancient Greek for sun. It's sol in Latin.

Yep, came here to say duty free also

No, makes me think of something from Star Wars or Star Trek.

No- awful name to saddle a child with.

Glad it’s not just me that thought alien 😅

Sounds like a cleaning product

Sorry, no. Just looks like you've stolen a bag of vowels! And in the U.K., it will not be pronounced how you've written! It'll be mangled.

I'm so sorry, I LOVE unusual names and names from all countries & cultures but this really-really-really sounds like Alien when you say it out loud (and when people are called names, it's out loud not written down). It sounds like Alien a LOT. Sorryyyyyy xx

Personally I prefer names that contain at least one consonant. This one is just a vowel salad.

Sorry I take it back - missed the lone l there! Still way too vowel heavy for me though, and I agree with pp that these sorts of names will date.

First thing I thought of too. They also run all the duty free in NZ! Not sure it's the best connotation OP

www.aeliadutyfree.com/

It looks like it should be the name of a weapon used in Ancient Greek warfare.

Family name in ancient Rome (members included Emperor Hadrian).
As previous poster said, three syllables, not four: Ee-li-ah.

Also (in ancient Rome) sometimes spelled Ailia: Ay-li-ah

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_gens

Looks like you missed out the ‘m’

Soleil is a beautiful name with the same meaning.
also Daisy ☀️

I appreciate the history of the name, but in the UK it will be pronounced something very close to "alien".

I like it

It could grow on people. And has a nice meaning.

Ae is normally pronounced eh - might be easier to spell it Elia to get the right pronunciation? Also much easier to spell when she starts school...

Sounds ridiculous, sorry.

I’m sorry OP, but it’s not quite.

Aelius was the surname of a prominent family in Ancient Rome and the female form would have been Aelia. The original meaning is not known. One theory is that it may have been a latinisation of the Greek word ‘Helios‘, which does mean ‘sun’.

Naming a girl in 2022 Aelia with the intended meaning of ‘sun’ is a bit of a stretch. Is the meaning or the Latin important? How about Aurora, Roman goddess of the dawn?

I’d presume you had missed out the M in Amelia.

Sounds like a body part