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itâs kind of non-name to me. so common that it just doesnât give me imagery or vibes, itâs just there. however i love it. i think emily has such a pretty sound that i can excuse it from everything else. i love this name. it is boring. but itâs so lovely.
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1990 [name_f]Emily[/name_f] here. Look, I love the sound of my name, I do think its pretty and it has become a bit timeless â I think it will be a while before it sounds dated.
That said, while I know itâs become slightly less popular in recent years, I was always [name_f]Emily[/name_f] Last Initial. [name_m]Even[/name_m] at my very small college, I was one of ten Emilies. I hated that. It was #1 for so many years and in the top ten for most of my life. Itâs popular for a reason, as it is a nice name, but too popular for me.
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[name_u]Love[/name_u] it.
I think itâs nice. Though some might consider it quite a basic name, I havenât noticed many people actually using the name for their child recently.
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] is strong but sweet, with the nice [name_f]Emily[/name_f] [name_f]Brontë[/name_f] connection. I enjoy it but it is popular which puts me off a bit
I love [name_f]Emily[/name_f], but I love it most as a middle name. I think itâs got some powerful and quite great historical associations (eg. [name_f]BrontĂ«[/name_f], [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m], [name_m]Davison[/name_m], and certainly others Iâm sure), which I love. But, I find it too overused and underwhelming to be a first name. It feels far more refreshing in the middle spot to me. Yet, even then, using a name like [name_f]BrontĂ«[/name_f] or [name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] for a girlâs middle would be so great as well! It feels very âof its eraâ to me, which would be baby girls born in the late â80s and the â90s.
I love [name_f]Emily[/name_f], but it doesnât have the nicest of meaningsâŠI see ârivalâ as a negative thing so this down grades the name for me a little bit, but [name_f]Emily[/name_f] is classic, pretty, soft and yet strong. It has been fairly popular over the last 30 years or so, but I still love it.
my name! I know itâs common but I love my name and wouldnât rather have another name 
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] is ok but I prefer [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f].
I think [name_f]Emily[/name_f] sounds a little dated nowadays and is more of a mom name than a baby name. However, I think its one of those names that any girl could wear and I like the nickname [name_f]Em[/name_f] quite a bit!
i love the name emily! itâs such a classic, yet it doesnât feel dated at all. itâs such a lovely name and the nicknames em, emmi, milli, lia just add to itâs appeal!
Itâs overused and boring, imo.
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I donât mind it wouldnât use it as first name but might consider it for middle
This is a name I have a really strong aversion to, for a heady cocktail of reasons.
Firstly popularity. It was just so incredibly ubiquitous - I concur with others comments re itâs hard to feel anything about it anymore. Itâs just kind of ever-present. Wallpaper.
[name_f]Em[/name_f]- I am not a fan of [name_f]Em[/name_f] names in general. I am very much in the minority with this, though.
Frilliness - I tend to find names that rhyme with frilly, well, frilly. Itâs not a characteristic I like.
None of the above reasons individually are necessarily enough to discount a name for me - I have exceptions to all of these rules on my list. But all of these factors combined give me a very strong aversion to a name too inoffensive to illicit such a strong reaction, really.
I feel like I should also give some plus points. [name_f]Emily[/name_f] has waned in popularity now. Itâs on the shorter side, familiar, and easy to say and spell. And there are obviously some really admirable historical namesakes which would make excellent role models for any little girl.
In my country [name_f]Emily[/name_f] has always been in TOP 20-30s but I never heard an [name_f]Emily[/name_f] in my life so it sounds very fresh to me, it has a gentle sound, good poetic references, is classic in the Anglosphere and I like nickname [name_f]Emi[/name_f], which comes natural to me. It is so cute and gracious on a young child and so mature on an adult. I like [name_f]Emily[/name_f], I just would not use it because of the bad meaning. I would use [name_f]Emily[/name_f] but of course if you are in an [name_f]English[/name_f] speaking country it might sound to you just for us would be a [name_f]Giulia[/name_f] or an [name_f]Alessia[/name_f] (overused names here since too much).
I love [name_f]Emily[/name_f]. As a teacher, I do not think itâs as common woth this generation as in the past, so if overpopularity was a turn off, I dont think you have anything to worry about. The more poplular verison is [name_f]Emma[/name_f], which has been very popular the last several years. I prefer [name_f]Emily[/name_f], it seems more playful and gentle, yet still traditional.
Emily is gorgeous!
Emily is so classic, really elegant and timeless. She feels sophisticated, has lots of literacy references, easily recognisable and has the sweet nickname Emmy. Emily feels like a ultimate LBD name similar to Eve, Jane & Ann. Great choice.
Regarding popularity I feel like with past generations she was popular but this latest one she isnât. As a mother of a young child who is often encountering young children Iâm much more likely to encounter a Maverick or Willow then an Emily so she doesnât feel to common at all. Instead refreshing. I came across a Jenny at totchella (a toddler festival) it was a surprise whereas kids named Winter-Rose & Maya blended into the background.
Very pretty! [name_m]Easy[/name_m] to spell and not easily confused with other names. Not too frilly, but still very feminine.
1994 [name_f]Emily[/name_f] here! I am pretty neutral on it. I hated the popularity growing up, I was always [name_f]Emily[/name_f] M. I know that [name_f]Emily[/name_f] itself isnât super popular anymore, but [name_f]Emma[/name_f] now is, and also [name_f]Emilia[/name_f] / [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]. So the sound is still around. As others have said, itâs hard to have any real associations with it because thereâs just so many different associations with it that it is ambiguous. That being said, I could see that as a pro also because it likely wonât ever have any strong negative reactions.