Amelie

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How many do you know?
I am worried in a few years there will be loads of them and it will really date, a bit like Sharon and Tracey

Well i am french,love the name Amelia but i don't know if we should pronounce it the english way(a-mee-lia) or french way (a-maylia)...we do live in the uk...
big dilema
help pls ;)

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Does that mean you can't use any biblical names in Britain either because they are Hebrew?

Pretentious if you're not French/have French family. I know lots and lots - 4 off the top of my head all under 3. Think it will date badly.

What aload of gobshite. The name is gorgeous and definitely won't date! And it's not pretentious...it's pretentious to say its pretentious!!!!

I didn't like the film myself, but because there WAS a film and it inspired a deluge of Amelies is precisely why it WILL date.

Amelie is nice as long as it not said in a strong Glasgow accent. We went on holiday last year and there was one, her dad was always calling her in the park and it just sounded so wrong. (I am Scottish btw).

My DD's Reception class has an Emily, Emilie and Amahle (pr. Amelie) which can be confusing at times as the names sound fairly similar. Apart from these three I know of a couple of Amelies aged 3 and of at least 3 girls named Emelia/Emilia within the past 12 months.

I think they are all pretty names but I think it's the sort of name that I'd steer clear of having spent my life correcting people's spelling of my first name (it's not difficult or unusual but people double all sorts of letters) - it's not something I'd wish upon my daughters (who have names that cannot be mixed up with anything else!).

We know two and I hear it shouted at
the park or soft play quite a lot so it seems to be popular

farking phone is doing odd things to my typing

It´s lovely.
I don´t see how people could think it´s Emily tbh-unless they have a hearing problem, of course.

I don´t think it will date in the way that Sharon & Tracey have.

Faddy.
I really really dislike it.
Unless you're French.

It's fine - I do think you are condemning your child to a lifetime of it being spelled wrongly and speaking as someone whose name is also often spelled wrong, that can be frustrating.

It's obviously not "I've never heard that, how extraordinary" unusual, but I've never understood this desire for unique names, and both my dcs have terribly mainstream names.

I went to visit a friend's dd (Emilia) in hospital when she was tiny - of the 6 girl babies on the ward, one was Emilia, one was Amelia, and two were Amelie. One of the others was called Claire - now that really is unusual!

I know one. It gets shortebed to Mimi, which i can't stand and can't even bring myself to say, so I stick with Amelie.

I think it's pretty, as is Emily. I think it will just get assimilated into common english usage and she wouldn't have all these 'difficulties' with spellings others are fearing.

All this you can't use it unless you're french is tosh. Isn't Claire a french name?

How many names are roman/latin, german/french
biblical/hebrew in origin?? pretty much all of them. Is the arument that you can't introduce any new foreign names? So, when wwas the cut off and who decided?

All the Emily/Amelie/Amelia/Amalia/Milly names are very 'trendy' and may well date quite badly.

But if I had to choose one, I'd go for Emily as this is easiest to pronounce and the most classic imo.

I think Amelie is such a beautiful name, soundwise, that it won't date like Sharon and Tracey, because when it comes down to it, it's makes such a nicer-sound than them.

I"d like to second Brideshead in her comments about ''Must only use English name if your English', 'French names are only for the French', 'foreign names are pretentious'.

Following that line of though, nobody English should use Alex, Alice, Claire, Josh, Isabelle, Chloe... going back to the Bible: Sarah & Mary, Mathew, Mark, Luke & John.

At what point is a once-foreign name deemed 'English' enough to be used by English parents without them being deemed pretentious?

Note to self, type slower: please forgive multiple typos.

Well, Tracey doesn't have a nice sound now, but it did when Grace Kelly's character kicked it off in High Society in the 50s - that's fashion for you - what's nice now, is dated in 10, 20, whatever years.

As LadyThompson says - anything that is made popular and there is a rash of them as the result of a definable thing, like a celebrity or a movie, will date. That doesn't mean that it won't be nice any more, just that it will date.

I know of one Amelie, as a middle name. I personally think it's a bit bland, and overly-popular, but if you like it, go for it.

Why has this been resurrected? OP was over two years ago. Presume baby has been born by now!?
You lot are weird!

Didn't know any when this thread was started. Know two now!

LOL at the thread resurrection - and the same answers still.

Says something!

I think it's pretentious and irritating and have seen/heard a fair few Amelies at the park or soft play.

Who did it?

Beloune - MN stores threads forever so if you find one from searching please check the date! Or start a new thread if you have a question.

just wondering what the real names are of these people with such stuck up attitudes over other people's choice of name for their children! especially ericnorthman... ever heard 'if you have nothing good to say, then say.....'
and FYI amelie is NOT French, its German! so find it hilarious that may posters think it must be said with a french accent to be taken seriously!! if you are going to criticise something because you have nothing better to do, better get your facts right first eh?!

My DD is 6.5 and named Amelie. She loves her name and I dont know any others. IMO it is softer sounding than Amelia. I LOVED the film!