Aurelie, even though not french?

[missytequila]

what do you think of this name. does it matter that neither of us are french?

I love it, and no it doesn't matter that you are not French!

It's lovely! My Mil is Welsh and she is called Aurelia, i think it means "Golden".

It's pretty, but sounds like 'Orally'.

Like it, but it could be mispronounced "orally" by the ignorant so I wouldn't, not in the UK.

Aurelia is safer from that point of view.

I love it. I did know a French Aurelie and she was very slim, stylish and generally together (and a nice person to boot, damn her!! ). I suppose my only query would be how are other people going to pronounce it. If you lived round here then Orrilee would probably be the most likely rendering - not so nice. If you live somewhere posh cosmopolitan then fine.

How should it be pronounced by a British person, then?

Pronounced Or-ray-lee with equal emphasis on each syllable.

But English speakers will usually emphasise the first syllable, hence the problem

I live in London. Not really concerned about pronunciation.. should i be?

I am in such a dilemma, if I choose a popular name, everyone says oh how unoriginal she will be 1 of 5 in her class, i.e. i also like isabelle and sophia...

But if I try to find something a bit unusual, people say she will have a hard time explaining her whole life.

what to do! have only 2 weeks left and no name!

So, not entirely dissimilar to O-ra-lee, then.

There are benefits and downsides to both popular and unusual names, missytequila. It's your child, you decide! Never mind what people say they think you should do.

You should be worried about Orally as a nn. I would go for Aurelia instead.

How would you pronounce it? Frequency of use isn't really an issue tbh - how many Sarahs and Helens do you know (well, they were the names when I was born and they are both nice). DD has a top-ten list name. I didn't know that when I chose it (no MN for me in them days ). If you like it then go for it. DD has chosen a shortened version of her name anyway. A lot of it depends on the child. The kids at school and beyond that had "weirder" names often had the confidence to cope with them. There was one girl called Genoveva (can't remember the spelling, twas a long time ago). She was quite posh, beautiful and very confident so having an unusual name was no problem to her.

No.
Brits wouldn't be able to make it sound nice.

I love it. A friend's daughter is called it. Very pretty IMO

It's a lovely name but gets mangled by Brits. It'll be OR-ally or or-EL-ly.

Aurelia is safer and still lovely.