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?

I think this is par for the course TBH. Amelia or Emily are both pretty names ,People will just expect it to be one of these really.Not wishing to offend you ,but so may people want a different or differently spelled name. And dont really think of a little girl with an awkward sounding name.Also names like Lily Ann or Mary Jane .In a class of 30 kids Teacher cant be doing with awkward spellings.

Priceless 🤣

What makes you so sure that you are pronouncing it correctly?

Maybe there isn't a definitive way.

Like Scone?

Im dozy aren't I 😂

Well where did you get that name from, is it made up? Honestly, people with fairly standard names get called the wrong name sometimes, but the name you have chosen gives NO-ONE a chance at all. Yooniqueness has its repercussions.

The only girls called Mila that I know pronounce their names like Miller. I note that Mee-la and My-la are also acceptable pronunciations, so you will just have to let people know, whichever name you opt for.

Emila is just a typo for Emilia.

You have set your child up to have to constantly tell people what her name is and spell it. Your fault

Yes I'm aware of that. But their names mean something to me culturally. The children love their names and the fact they link to our history. They're fine with it and are glad they're not one of many Elizabeth/ lilly/Amelia.

It makes me think of Emla cream (well known anaesthetic cream) so people will perhaps jump to that pronunciation with an i.
I think if you go for similar to but slightly different from popular name you do have to accept that you’ll/she’ll need to just let new people know it’s em mee la or however she prefers.

Not surprised to be honest. This is what happens when you give your child a made up name that’s almost identical to a common name.

Can sympathise. We have an Ailsa and she's commonly referred to Alisa, mostly I just ignore it but I do worry that we've saddled her with a name she will spend her life correcting. Not even mentioning a trip to Disneyland in which she kept being referred to as the Queen of Arendelle!

Is it a made up name ??
or aligned to a particular language ?
agree that it reminds of Emla cream !

Emila is a beautiful name and I much prefer it to Emilia. If you wanted to then you could change the spelling so it’s spelt phonetically.

Overall I agree with previous poster who said that the difficulty of having a slightly unusual name is vastly overrated! I’ve often had to correct people re my name and it’s never bothered me…I think people need to stop being so sensitive and realise there are bigger problems to worry about.
The people who matter will learn the name.

I’d rather a slightly unusual name than a more common one personally.

It reminds me of one of those tests where your brain autocorrects misspelled or missing words, my brain autocorrected your DD's name to Emilia.

Well thank god Olivia is now classed as ‘boring’ so I don’t have to tell everyone how to spell it for the rest of my life. It was a pain in the arse growing up in the 80’s/90’s having people misspell it Oliver, Olivier, Olvia, Olivie or being called Olive Oyl, Liver and Tripe etc when I was growing up. Hopefully Emila becomes popular and boring too, so your daughter won’t have to put up with being told her name is weird as well, or having to spell it out every time she meets someone new or has to phone the bank.

My first glance at it I read it as Eh-mil-uh. My niece is Emilia so it feels odd to try to pronounce it without the i!

Her friends will just shorten it to Millie or Em - boring stuff (in your words) 😂

So it's Emily with an a at the end instead of y. The end.

Emila will be correcting a lot of people during her lifetime, and people generally don't like being corrected.

Urgh I feel your pain. I have a name that should be incredibly easy to pronounce - literally just three syllables with the same sound per syllable haha, but it’s sliiightly more common in a different spelling/pronunciation. It BLOWS PEOPLE’S MINDS. It doesn’t matter how clearly I pronounce it, they just look at me like I’m crazy and often end up correcting me. FWIW I’ve never shortened it because I feel v stubborn about making it easier for people who aren’t so hot at the listening 🤣.

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If you are going to say Olivia is common and boring then exactly the same applies to Mila. Just stick with Emila, it’s so much nicer than Mila and once she’s older she will be telling people her name anyway.

Read that and thought Elmlea - like the cream... that would be quite pretty!