On first glance, how would you pronounce this name?

[name_m]Emil[/name_m].

I’m loving it lately, and technically it is a family name (great-grandfather who immigrated from [name_u]Sweden[/name_u]'s FN) so I like the bit of history associated with that too. My only concern is pronunciation.

Would you be more inclined to say ee-mill or ee-meel? Or something different? Would you find it usable as a first name, probably as a younger brother to a [name_m]Felix[/name_m]/[name_f]Leonie[/name_f]?

[name_f]TIA[/name_f]!

I pronounce it eh-MEEL, which is all I’ve ever heard. It’s not really my style, but I like it a lot and I think it’s perfectly usable. :slight_smile:

I pronounce it Eh-mill

I pronounce it eh-MEEL. Definitely usable - I’ve known a couple guys with the name, including a friend who just gave it to her newborn son.

My first thought was ee-meel. I have never heard the name pronounced. I have seen the name but I do not know anything about the name. I cannot see why it couldn’t be used as a first name. Without knowledge of the name, I feel it goes well with [name_f]Leonie[/name_f] and sounds (same with [name_f]Leonie[/name_f]) a bit more exotic compared to [name_m]Felix[/name_m], but not so much so that they would sound strange as siblings.

eh-MEEL in English,
É-meel in [name_m]German[/name_m].

Ay-meel / é-meel

I say eh-MEAL

This is tough because I say eh-meel and eh-mill similarly. I think what I would say is closer to eh-meel, I’ll not that the meel part is not very drawn out when I say

Eh-Meel definitely. Knew someone from Romania who was [name_m]Emil[/name_m]

I pronounced it eh-MEEL.

At first glance, [name_f]Em[/name_f]-ill

E*-meal (*E as in the letter), this was my great grandfather’s name.

Ee-mill is how I would pronounce it.

Thank you, everyone!