Klelia?

[Nescafegoldblend]

What do you think? Or Clelia is better?

If you do use it, do it with a K as it looks less like a typo of Celia that way

Ha, ha, ha, ha

Yep definitely sounds Klingon to me. Avoid avoid.

I’m sure she’d get called Smellier Clelia or something awful in the playground.

It's awful - it sounds like a remedy for chlamydia and no one will know how to pronounce it.

Wow people on this thread are being really awful. You might not like a name but why such rudeness and extremity? Why never consider how others might be called it or know people with it or have children with it? Constantly comparing to genital diseases because you've never heard something before - what are we - 12? I think this forum is getting into a trolly kind of place. People may ask advice on names, but they don't need this sort of thread it's just nasty.

Imagine Jamie Oliver trying to say that with his thick tongue, or anyone with a lisp.. or anyone really, it produces a lot of spittle sound

Cliona
Chiara
Claudia
Cassia
Celia
Carolina

Are all nice, pick of of those

Imagine not being so foul about someone with a known speech impediment.
And fwiw, a lisp causes problems with sibilant sounds. None of which Clelia contains. So he'd have a lot more trouble with 2 of the names on your list.

@Hadtocomment it's bizarre really. It comes up often when people ask for opinions about this name. How the leap is made from sharing the same initial sounds /kl/ and letters "cl" to being reminded of an STD or part of a woman's anatomy beggars belief. Nobody makes that leap with Chloe or Claire. Maybe it's just ignorance and they're unaware of the ancient classical origins of the name.

Cliona is awful. Looks like a mash-up of Clio and Leona

The ancient Roman heroine? I mean, Classicists will get it, but hardly anyone else.

Ah... Clíona is a perfectly normal Irish name. It's not a mashup of anything.

Horrible. Sounds like a skin condition.

Apologies - just saw that it's fairly common in Greece and Bulgaria. I did ancient history at uni, so recognised the name from that Roman history. She rescued lots of hostages in a war and was celebrated for her bravery as a war hero with a statue.

@Passerillage , oh all right, not obvious without the fada. Is it Clee-O-na or Cleena?

Exactly this. There are such narrow minded attitudes here. Just because you are unfamiliar with something it doesn’t make it objectively bad, worthy of ridicule or (Mumsnet’s favourite) comparable to an STD.

My LG’s bestie is called Khlelia. It’s a lovely name and no issues with how to say it.

the one I know is a lovely girl so I think it’s a lovely name.

That's a better name.

I would say CLEE-uh-nah, I think, but it would probably vary a lot around the country.

There is no board I find more annoying and ignorant than the baby names board. Klelia is a name used in other countries and I think it is rather beautiful. People generally make an effort when they meet you to pronounce and learn other names properly. I am foreign and generally find people pronounce my difficult name well. Only on mums net do people purposefully mispronounce and offend names.

But, assuming that OP is British and lives in the UK (apologies if this isn't the case, OP), it's a very odd choice. It's nothing like somebody having a name from their own country/culture who then later settles in a different country.

Dikshit is a not uncommon name in India; Avishag is an Israeli/Hebrew name; Nicola and Andrea are common names for boys in Italy - any of these would still seem a very odd choice for a British child, born to British parents, who is being brought up in the UK.

Thanks @Passerillage , CLEE-uh-na sounds fine. I stand corrected.

Clelia/Klelia is growing on me too.

I think it's the two l's for me which makes it feel clunky. Like you're trying to say clearier which would obv be awful grammer.

But this is why I didn't put my sons name up for debate, because I knew what kind of responses I'd get for Castiel. Whereas in reality the closest people get to telling me they dint like it is "og that's interesting" or now they'll say they weren't sure but now it suits him.

So @Nescafegoldblend if you like it, use it. In rl people will learn to pronounce it, there's options for derivatives if you want, and anyone rude enough to be rude to your face don't deserve your or your child's time.

OMG that's too like clitoris

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper No, we are not coming from the Uk but we live here for many years and we intend to live for the years to come (touch wood).

The name Klelia wouldn’t bat an eyelid in the county we come from, it may even get compliments, hence I am asking how it would be perceived in the Uk.

We also have a foreign surname (imagine an italian surname) and so she won’t be Klelia Smith for example.

Definitely C over K for almost all names where there's a choice.
I genuinely find it hard to say but I really like Cloelia as that extra syllable just makes it easier for me...