Leonie?

[ghouliee]

Would be pronounced LEE-oh-nee with the stress on the first syllable. What do you think?

Sorry I'm being really thick but I can't say it right with the emphasis on the Lee. I can only say it with an emphasis slightly on the oh part. 🙈 really nice name, although I do prefer Leona.

I really like it. Only ever met one; a lovely little girl who will be in her mid 20s now.

So I'd say it's that perfect combination of being rarely used but recognisable.

I love it. Was at the top of my girl list, but alas another boy imminently due (with no name inspo forthcoming yet!).

Plan now is to just get a load of female cats and call them all the beautiful names like Leonie I've missed out on 😉

In Cambridge?

I really like it.My friends married surname is Leone which is pronounced the same.

I know a Leonie pronounced leah-nee. She's always having to correct, it's quite a rare pronunciation. I grew up with a Leonie pronounced the way you are suggesting, lovely girl

I prefer Leonor as it is always LEE-on-or.
Leonie is often Lee-OWN-ee.

Love the name. I've heard it both pronounced as Lee- oh- nee, and Lay-oh-nee.
Both with emphasis on first syllable, or the second! So there's no right or wrong.

My relative says it the same as you. When she was at university she resorted to putting an accent on the first syllable to stop the Lee OH nee pronunciation.adee laugh, but it did work.

I prefer Leonah. I think the emphasis on the " lee" part doesn't sound quite right and she'll have a lifetime of having it mispronounced.

No. Durham. Don't know that she stayed there though. I only taught her for a few weeks when I was on teaching practice. She was in Year 2 in mid 00s.

Lovely, I know a grown up one. Pronounced Lee-oh-nee. Emphasis on the ‘oh’ though.

She'll get Lee-O-nie a lot. I'd say it Lay-O-ni

I love this name! One of my favourites and so underused! I know two but they are both pronounced LAY-uh-nee, with the emphasis on Lay. I think it’s a gorgeous name.

Pronunciation would be like Leah-nee, wasn’t sure how to represent that!

sounds like some pronunciation confusion will happen but generally consensus seems positive.

@ghouliee , I'd say LEE-uh-nee would represent your pronunciation.

I think that like Naomi it will get several pronunciations.

Haha. I end up answering to anything that sounds vaguely like it.

Apart from when I was 5 and the santa in the grotto in John Lewis said Mary and I worried that he'd go to the wrong house with my presents.

I really like it, pronounced Leon-y, I think that's how you mean. I like the other pronunciation less (Lee-OH-ny).
I've only ever met one so like a pp said it's that nice balance of not commonly used but everyone will recognise.

My relative has this name and pronounces it as "Lear-knee".

Definitely not the same one. The one I know went to Oxford and was in the final of University Challenge

I really like it, I’ve only met one, she pronounced it Lee-oh-nee.

I love this name, pronounced the way you’ve described.
It’s international and very classic; strong but pretty.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

I knew one when I was in primary school, she was school admin support staff aged in her fifties in the 1990s