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Elise, Elsie, Elisa, or Eliza?

39 replies

Talissa · 13/06/2021 07:42

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FortunesFave · 14/06/2021 14:05

Elise is extremely common in the region I'm from. I accept it's a classic, French name but so are lots of names which have unfortunately been ruined.

Fifilafrog · 13/06/2021 19:19

Elise is a beautiful classic French name. Not chavvy at all. Quite the opposite to my mind (I'm half French).

Kangaroo1 · 13/06/2021 18:32

Eliza

TooTiredForToday · 13/06/2021 18:29

Elise is our front runner. It's not at all chavvy where we are. Confused

highlighteryellow · 13/06/2021 18:26

I really love Elise. I'm always baffled by the comments online about it being chavvy, I think of it as a sophisticated name. It must vary by region.

MySocalledLoaf · 13/06/2021 14:17

Elise.
You might also like Elisenda

FortunesFave · 13/06/2021 14:14

Elise sounds a bit common...sorry.

MerryMarigold · 13/06/2021 14:00

Also really hate 'Liza' which Eliza may well end up being.

MindTheBumps · 13/06/2021 13:29

I like Elsie best but would you Elspeth as the long form and Elsie as the nickname.

Eliza is lovely too.

I prefer Alyse to Elise

SionnachRua · 13/06/2021 13:13

Elise is beautiful and elegant.
Eliza and Elsie - scullery maids.
Elisa is ok. I have no opinion one way or the other, it's just...there...as a name.

I wouldn't use Elizabeth unless you're happy to possibly end up with a Beth (which is a nails down a chalkboard name for me).

Mollymalone123 · 13/06/2021 13:11

Elise/ - my best friends name so I’m biased but she is intelligent and kind- and it’s not chavvy at all- Elise has always been a classic French name

AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 13/06/2021 13:08

Eliza

Elieza · 13/06/2021 13:03

Elizabeth for sure. Then you can see what shortened version suits her little face and personality.

And when older the child can choose a version of her own name which she likes best.

Which could be all of the above or Bet, Liz, Lizzie, Lillibet, etc all are short forms of Elizabeth as well as names in their own right these days.

partyatthepalace · 13/06/2021 12:50

[quote Chunkymenrock]@partyatthepalace. Thanks for that. Hmm I have only ever come across them as names in their own right. It's quite tenuous to get Elise or Elsie from the random name Elizabeth.[/quote]
It’s not tenuous, it’s historic fact - Elizabeth has many forms.

Chunkymenrock · 13/06/2021 12:46

@partyatthepalace. Thanks for that. Hmm I have only ever come across them as names in their own right. It's quite tenuous to get Elise or Elsie from the random name Elizabeth.

20viona · 13/06/2021 12:43

Elise

AntiHop · 13/06/2021 12:41

Whichever you choose, put Elizabeth on the birth certificate, then she'll have options.

LeafBeetle · 13/06/2021 12:39

Elise

partyatthepalace · 13/06/2021 12:32

@Chunkymenrock

But they're all completely different names. Do you genuinely like them all as much as each other? Elise sounds sassy. Elsie is awful, frumpy and an OAP name. Elisa is a lab test and Eliza sounds like a Victorian doll and quite dreary. Elsa is better than all of them. But I prefer Coco or Tamsin!
Are you nuts?? They are all forms of Elizabeth and all of them v fashionable at the moment - and WTF does Coco or Tamsin (the former of which isn’t a name) have to do with it??

OP if I were you I’d put Elizabeth on the birth cert and then all of these options are open to your daughter.

For what nickname you start off with - Elisa (El-ee-sah) is probably the least popular so all things being equal I’d go for that.

I like Eliza and Elsa also.
Elsie I find twee (although OK as a little girls nn), Elise I think sounds a bit low rent outside of France.

MrsCrosbyNRTB · 13/06/2021 11:13

Elisa with the pronunciation Eleesa.

Chilldonaldchill · 13/06/2021 11:03

For me they are quite different.
Eliza is classy, classic, smart and beautiful.
Elsie is classy but a bit more old lady chic.
Elise is the very opposite of classy where I am and Elisa even worse.

MerryMarigold · 13/06/2021 10:23

My friend has an Elisa pronounced El ee ssa . I prefer it to the 'I' sound in Eliza. I like Elise too which has same 'ee' sounds in the middle.

Spied · 13/06/2021 10:10

Eliza

RuthW · 13/06/2021 10:07

Eliza - lovely
Elsie - nice
The other are a totally different class.

TatianaBis · 13/06/2021 10:06

Elise is French.