I love it. A lady in front of me in the supermarket had a beautiful little newborn and her name was Amelie. It's one of those names that made me think "Arggh! Why wasn't that one on my list!!".
As for people thinking it's Emily, that can happen with any name. People think DD1 is called 'Gloria' (C laudia) and DD2 is a boy named Miller (M illa). It's generally strangers who get it wrong so they don't really matter
I think is lovely and after the film lots of people will recognize it a distinct from Emilie or Emily.
Personally I wouldn't go with he accent as you are not French purely because when typing rather than writing most people here will drop it anyway. We know a gorgeous little girl called A*n*a*ë*l*l*e (her mum is French - think Anna Elle for pronunciation) and I do try to always include the two dots, but on phones etc is harder.
People will always mix things up though - DD is Cerys people think is Paris (which makes me laugh as anyone who knows me would know that there is no way that Paris is a name I personally would choose).
I adore it too. I wanted it so badly but my DH always pronounced wrong and if he could not say it right it was not a name I was going to always correct him on so we caleed DD1 Amelia.
Love, love, love it! I wanted to use it for DD but DH stated it "wasn't a real name" (a phrase he uses for anything that is not 100% normal and popular.....makes choosing names very fun for me...not!)
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