Comments for the name Élodie

So graceful and lyrical - I LOVE this name!

*Such* a beautiful name - playful, yet sophisticated. I ~LOVE~ it!

A famous bearer is French actress Elodie Navarre.

Very pretty. I love French girl's names.

Elodie is such a pretty, girly name. It is probably one of my favourite French girl's name ever.

In the books Cousins and Second Cousins, Elodie is a nickname for ELoise ODIE. Elodie.

Quite honestly, I like it better without the accent and pronounced EL-o-dee. (how I first heard it) But this is nice too.

A Frenchwoman with a daughter named Elodie told me her name was pronounced like Melody, but without the M. I think it sounds nicer as EL-o-dee.

In the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Elodie is the real name of undercover third child Nina Idi.

It sounds so pretty and musical.

Yay, my name! My mom lived in France for awhile, so that's how I was named. I hate it when people call me 'E-LOW-DEE' so annoying. But I do like my name, even though it gets embarrassing when people pronounce it wrong.

This name should be pronounced AY-lo-dee or ELL-lo-dee, not ay-lo-DEE. The accent is on the E so the emphasis is on the first syllable of the name.

To the above comment, that is how accents work in, for example, Spanish. However, in French the accent aigu (this one) on the first letter of the name has nothing to do with stressed syllables: it means the "e" is pronounced similar to how you would say the letter "a", a long "a" sound. The pronunciation listed is perfectly correct.

Oops yeah I'm sorry :/ I speak both French and Spanish and I think I got confused. Yeah in French the é makes a long E-sound as in "ay" or "eeeeh" and the è makes a short E-sound as eh. I don't know why I mixed it up. The weird thing is that 2 French girls I know definitely pronounce it with the accent on the first syllable. But maybe they changed the pronunciation when they moved here.

Wow, SO beautiful! It puts me in mind of a beautiful, pure-minded French maiden. I can't imagine an unkind person called Elodie! I've also seen this spelt "Elody", which I think takes away some of its charm. But I still love the name!

So beautiful, I could imagine it on a little girl, or on a teenager, or a beautiful woman. I love it. I'm putting it on my PNL!

This is actually quite a beautiful name, as long as it's pronounced el-uh-dee. But I don't like it pronounced ay-loh-dee.

Great classic French name. :-)

I think this a great name. It could belong to a princess.

I like it, it's French.

Personally, I feel that "Élodie" is a bit out-of-place when not restricted to France; it runs a high risk of taking the appearance of a pompous 'kre8tiv' version of "Melody" (which itself, admittedly, is it's own atrocity.)

That being said... I suppose that I shall be the minority and state my distaste for it to both the eye and ear-- it lacks the flow, subtle beauty, professionalism, and intelligence that is needed to balance the undeniable frilly nature of it.

I seem to have forgotten this addition to my previous post...

Has no one noticed the 'initial' factor that comes into play when "Élodie" is pronounced (particularly in English-speaking countries)? It resembles a seeming tacky elaboration of a person's initials-- L.O.D., which would equal Elizabeth Ophelia Nethers, for explanations sake.

I know someone Elodie, and she has been called L.O.D.

(It's pronounced E-lə-dee.)