My daughter is Emilia Rose. Her first name is pronounced Emma-Lee-uh. We started with the "Em" from Emily and added my grandmothers' initials: IL and IA. It's probably one of the most unique ways of finding our way to the name. She goes by Emi because no one pronounces it correctly. I still love the way her full first and middle name sound together, but I named her so... Emma-Lee-uh Rose it is.
This is my name, and I was named after my grandmother, who came from Poland. She pronounced it eh-meel-yah, but I prefer to use the pronunciation eh-MILL-ee-uh.