Ellyse

At school we have (amongst others)
Hollie and Holly
Ciaran/Keiran/Kieran
Isobel/Isabel/Isabelle
Connor/Conor
Reo/Rio
Giorgia/Georgia
Jack/Jak
Tiffany/Tiffannii
Mia/Mya/Miah
You get used to which children are spelt which way.
OP use the spelling you like. Ellyse/Elise is a lovely name.

Just to capture the level of my 'racism', I asked a friend who happens to be visiting with her daughter from a huge Jewish community (I don't live in the UK anyway, as it happens, neither does she). She doesn't know anyone called Ellyse either.

And I've used a variant spelling myself for one out of three, as well as a name that no one had heard of at the time for another.

I can't get that excited about it, tbh. Fortunately (!) I have enough real issues to concern me than perceived slights where none existed.

No. It's still ignorance, not racism.
But you are, of course, entitled to believe whatever it is you have got so het up about. Your belief doesn't make it a fact, but you can believe it does if you like. It's a free country.

Elise is so lovely

Great choice OP

And FYI, if i google 'Ellyse', there are 'about 772,000' results (at least 161,000 of which are about Australian cricketer/footballer Ellyse Perry)

'Elise' has 'about 25,000,000' results; 'Elyse' has 'about 3,660,000'.

Please explain why it is incorrect to say that 'Ellyse' is more unusual than 'Elise' or 'Elyse'.

But no response to me?

Could you explain to me why you implied I was racist because I said a less-common spelling of a name was unusual?

""Not really racism, birds""

When you are telling other cultures that they aren't spelling names, "properly" and accusing other cultures of "making up spellings" because the French/German (as is usually used in the UK) is the correct and only acceptable way, it is.

I picked the names and spellings of my children's names to fit out cultural background, I've seen the acceptable and correct spellings that my family have used be slated on here.

Had the OP stated her cultural background, or are we all default white British on MN?

I checked out this topic because my DD is searching for a DD's name, when I dip in I see this a lot and also incorrect/ignorant statements made about names.

The funniest ones are "self proclaimed experts" who don't even realise that names such as Levi etc are real names.

Oh, and I didn't even say there was anything wrong with 'Ellyse'!

birds, you took my quote out of context there. I was responding to someone who had said it wasn't an unusual spelling. I showed that Elise and Elyse were both more common, and specifically pointed out that I was not saying it was made up. Perhaps I should have said 'unusual in this country', but the fact that I explained I was using figures from England and Wales should have covered that.

How did you conclude that I'm racist from that?

As it happens, most of my more impassioned posts on the baby names threads have been when I get pissed off with people for not taking variant spellings or spellings from other countries into account and saying they are misspelled or made up or just wrong. People saying that they prefer a particular spelling doesn't bother me. But, you know, now I know that having a preference is racist...

Either way, shove your mealy-mouthed not-quite accusation where the sun does not shine.

Why would Elise get shortened to Ellie? I knew an Elise at school. I also know three Elizabeth's, never shortened.

So what if you want to use alternative spelling, unique spelling. Its OK!

You could substitute 'ignorance' for racism if you would determined to have a pop. That would work. HTH.

Not really racism, birds. Just cultural familiarity with middle England UK naming conventions. And an understanding that to step outside of those cultural conventions has to be understood to be a decision that might be misinterpreted as trying to be 'unique'.

No one made any links to any other cultures and disparaged the name as a direct result, hence your frothing about racism is a tad outré.

""Do you mean Elise?Please spell it correctly!""
Ellyse' is definitely an unusual spelling. ""

OP, if you like that spelling, use it.

It may not get MN approval, a lot of Hebrew spellings don't.

They also use that spelling in Australia.

The racism across this board is astounding.

I know an Alysse. And an Elise.

Ellyse just to call her Ellie sounds a bit forced, tbh, whether you know one or not.

I thought 'Ellie' did the rounds madly a few years ago and was avoided now due to the plethora of 'Ellie's that will be a few year's ahead in school?

I prefer Elisa with Rose, think Elise and Rose are both lovely names but the ending is too similar?

It's okay, but please spell it Elise if you're going to use it.

But no-one said she had made it up or imagined it, just that it was unusual and there might be issues with pronunciation and they preferred Elise.

Yes I realise that I'm not thick in just saying she hasn't made it up or imagined it to be a name.

Either way she will be Ellie.

NellyNoodle1, in 2012 in England and Wales, there were 391 babies named Elise, 26 named Elyse and too few called Ellyse to register (i.e. 0, 1 or 2).

'Ellyse' is definitely an unusual spelling. The fact that you know someone with the name just means that it has been used at least once before.

I don't think Ellyse is an unusual spelling? It's my 20 year old SIL's name. She never gets called it though just Ellie so just be aware of that.

I love Elise and have only ever met one person called that, so quite unusual.
But I'd stick with the traditional spelling and chose different middle name as both end in the same sound. Elise Roseanna? Elise Rosamund?

Elise is lovely, but I don't like your spelling, sorry.

Rose is a bit . It's like it's a 'go to' name for people who cannot think of another one, I've lost count of the middle name Rose's I know (although May is bad too - in DDs class there are 9 girls, 5 of them have the middle name May)

Likewise - love Elise and, although rose is popular, think it's very pretty. Sorry, I agree that your spelling looks like a made up name and rather odd... People won't know how to pronounce it.