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Two of my favorite names! The meaning and sounds are gorgeous. Such gravitas and joy! I would name a daughter either one.

I don't like either of them. They have wonderful meanings, and an air of elegance, but they're a pain to pronounce. I much prefer the similar sounding Lilia and Aurelia. Eulalia, and Eulalie in particular, feel limp and languishing.

As names, I find them depressingly heavy, in spite of their lovely meaning. As a South African, I think immediately of a poem by one of our great literary figures, Uys Krige, who was a war correspondent in WWII, was captured, and wrote a poem in a concentration camp (from which he later escaped) in which he expresses his longing for home and for his daughter Eulalia.

I LOVE Eulalie. But I'd pronunced it in French. EUH-LAH-LEE.

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The sound ''Eu'' is not easy to describe. I don't think there is something equivalent for english speakers. It's a bit like a ''erh'' sound, but remove the ''r'', if that makes sens?

I really like Eulalie. It's uncommon without being weird. I don't like Eulalia, though. It's too frilly. The A seems unnecessary to me.

They could be a bit of a tongue twister/mouthful, which is ironic given their meaning. However, I think they are pretty. I prefer Eulalia as a first name and Eulalie as a middle name.

I like both, I think both of them really sounds soft and pleasing to my ears. But I prefer Eulalia though.

I pronounce them with a LA sound, the LAY pronunciation feels very awkward to form in my mouth and sounds like ukulele.

Don't like them