Everyone is getting my baby's name wrong

[Laura3091]

So my baby girls name is Emila - It is pronounced as Em-ee-la.

Everyone keeps calling her Amelia and can’t get their head around Emila. Don’t think it’s that hard to grasp tbh but I know she is going to have trouble as she grows up with people mispronouncing her name.

Do we just shorten it to Mila? (Mee-La) to make it easier for everyone?

Yes that's very true I was mainly meaning in the area of our close family, friends and Alicias school and school friends when you have said her name and how to spell it they continue to spell it and pronounce it differently.😃

It looks like Emilia spelled wrong so it’s not surprising.

I know someone with two daughters one is Amelie and the other is Emilia. I have to think carefully not to confused the two.

I mean you’ve tried to be “unique” by taking one of the top 100 names (Emilia, even higher Amelia) and simply taking a letter out of it. Then you have the nerve to argue your name is unique, and also be surprised that people assume it’s one of the really common names. Tedious.

I wouldn't shorten it if you don't want to, they will get used to it.

Emi (Em-ee) would seem the sensible shortening of the name, or nickname.

It’s not unique it’s Polish. I do agree though that it is so similar to popular names here that it’s no wonder people get confused or have pronunciation issues the first time they see it.

@Hedgehogbrown ,
Just correct people until they fucking get it. They are all stupid.
Everybody is stupid apart from you and the OP?

God forbid they encounter an Indian or Vietnamese child in their life. People need to get used to different names and stop being fuckheads.
We are used to different names. The problem with OP's DD's name is that it is very similar to a popular name.

Everyone here who is saying 'poor child' I bet your kids have got really boring common names. Poor them! I hope they change it one day out of embarrassment for having boring parents.
They probably have standard names that don't get mispronounced or misspelt, and are happy with them.

It isn’t a made-up name, @Mousey11 - it’s Polish - the female version of the name Emil.

What a vicious and nasty comment, @Hedgehogbrown.

Is it though?

Even "Google" assumes it's a typo...

Consistent correction needed I think for people who mispronounce, it’s laziness unfortunately - I read your post (properly) the first time and thought “oh em-ee-la, that’s a nice name”. I assume the reason you called her this is because it’s a lovely name and a bit different, not outlandish just unique! So I vote to absolutely not change it to make it easier for other people. If your daughter gets fed up repeating it when she’s older she can select a nickname, please don’t change it because other people are lazy readers, just a quick polite correction when it’s mispronounced should do the trick

According to The Bump it is a real name, with its origins in Latin - the female form of Emil, @Digdongdoo - and a poster early in the thread said it is a Polish name.

I totally agree with this! There are so many different nationalities, variations of names, diminutives of names and vast pronunciations of names I don’t know how people get by unless they only know classic English names. I’m not a teacher but my line of work requires interaction with hundreds of different people and it’s really not hard to remember how people pronounce their names!

"The Bump" merely counts how many American babies have a particular name. It doesn't make it a real name. A small number of Americans made it up before OP did. There's no evidence that it is a polish name either from what I can tell, search engines don't seem to think it is a real name anywhere in the world.

It is unusual but it’s a gorgeous name and if people can’t be bothered to say it properly once corrected that’s their laziness.
It’s not a made up look how crazy I am name.

Teach your Dd to be proud of her beautiful name.

I’m sure she probably will end up being an Emmy or Mila at school unfortunately!

It's deed poll.

Ancestry also says it is a real name, with Latin origins, @Digdongdoo - maybe you will consider them a reliable source.

You don't seem to grasp how these name websites work. Flowery AI generated descriptions do not make it a "real" name.

It’s pretty and better than being a boring Olivia for example which has been done a million times over

Well there's your problem. Your vanity and vulnerability to the social contagion of the 'unique names' trend ( you sheep!) made you pick a 'unique' name that no-one knows how to pronounce. You don't really get to now moan that people can't pronounce it - sorry!

How about wikipedia, @Digdongdoo?

Gosh yes. 3 results, one of them a stage name. Proof if ever there was.

Emilia is a common Polish name, and Emila is a shortened version of that (or a nickname - like Ellie for Eleanor). It’s common for girls named Emilia to be called Emila when they’re young. There’s also another, less common nickname Emilka, but essentially they’re all shortened versions of the same name - Emilia.

No, no , no, @Lelumpolelum - it is utterly made up. @Digdongdoo says so, so it must be thus. Bless her heart.