Amelie

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Love the name Amelie, but keen to understand if there would be any different pronunciations to how I would say it?

Would you say it;

Amma-Lee

Or

A-meee-leee

Amma lee.

Amma-Lee.

Never heard it pronounced any other way.

Ameeeleee lovely name but would sound like amy-leigh round here

Amma lee , I know two. One in her forties the other is 17. Lovely name

Amma Lee.

There are five of them in DDs year (11)

Amma-Lee.
I love the name and have never known anyone called it.

I would say Amma-lee and I think it's beautiful

Amma lee

Amma Lee. I've never heard anything else... and I know about a dozen under ten.

I would have pronounced it more ammeh-lee, with a short e for the first e. Very pretty.

Amma-lee. Lovely name, the only thing to consider is that the one I know gets misheard as Emily.

Amma-lee

It's lovely, I know a few at different ages but none under the age of about 10

amma-LEE

There are quite a few about

Me too.

It is a beautiful name.

Neither

I'd say Am eh lee

Unless you spell it Amalie, of course

Amayleea is how I would pronounce it. I think it's the Danish way.

I like it , more than I like Amelia .

Surely it’s pronounced “Amma-Lee” like the well known film? Amelie apparently had a surge in popularity after it came out in 2001 and still hasn’t quite dropped out of the E and W Top 100 yet- which should hopefully avoid most mispronunciation or confusion with Emily. I’ve only met a few in RL though. Pretty name.

That’s not how the name of the woman in the film is pronounced. She is Amélie, pronounced ah-may-lee.

Most British ones don’t use the acute accent and are Amma- lee, we have one in our family. Amelie rhymes with family, come to think of it!

Oh, interesting- it’s been over 20 years since I’ve seen it, so I’m obviously misremembering/getting the pronunciation confused with the British Amelie’s I’ve met in RL 🤷‍♀️

I suppose Brits do have their own pronunciation of other French names as well- but I was assuming since the film was very popular at the time and sparked the names rise here, that people would have copied the pronunciation too.

I think it's the name of Madeleine McCann's sister, that would put me off using it to be honest as I would be thinking of the McCann's everytime I said it.

It's Amay-Lee. It's soppy and annoying in French. (sorry)

English is boring now. Emilie Emilia Amelie are very lovely names better than Amelia that's very old and boring now