Elouise?

eloise is inside the top 100 names now. But it's hardly ubiquitous.

Argh, is and here in the last sentence.

Where do you live that people have never come across the name Eloise before?

I think your dd is going to drop the surplus letter in Elouise as soon as she gets to secondary school because she is going to hate the fact everyone spells her name wrong.

Either that or you are condemning her to a life time of 'my name is Elouise, with a u'.
And most people will be like

People may also assume that poor Eloise's mum and dad don't know how to spell.

Either way, to me mis-spelling it i setting her up to be judged (read her the chavvy comments already) and a lifetime of correcting people on the spellign of her name. From someone who has had to spell her name out to people, trust me it gets old quickly and I wish I was called Jane!

Lovely name but I do think the spelling Elouise is daft.
Use the correct spelling, people that haven't come across it will soon get used to it.

I didn't change the spelling of my DD's name to help others less familiar with it and strangely my Doctor made a comment just this week about how friends of his had changed the spelling and he thought it was silly.
The Doctor is Irish and DDs name is Niamh!

Sorry but spelling your name is a pain, especially when there is a more common way of spelling it. There is nothing worse than seeing your name spelt wrong...or having to spell it out to people.

You also find it hard to get off the shelf personalised mugs etc...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(1955_book)

To me Elouise just screams 'lousie' but Eloise dosent .

have you combined Eloise and Louise on purpose or by accident?
Prefer Eloise of the two.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(1955_book) this Eloise book is fabulous!

Agree with the many others who say they prefer Eloise. It is a beautiful name and looks so much nicer spelt properly.

"We started off with Eloise but nobody knew how to say it properly and when I asked how they thought you would spell it they said Elouise"

But as the name is becoming increasingly popular, people will increasingly know how to spell it - the traditional way, and then by your argument, people will not know how to use your DD's version of the name because it is the non-traditional variant, and so she will end up with the name that people don't know how to spell. It would be far easier just to teach your friends and family the correct version!

Incidentally, the first time I taught an Eloise, I knew how to spell it - even though I had never come across the name before. The clue is there in the pronunciation .

I love the name Eloise - but I went to school with a girl called Eloise and she tried to be posh and call herself Elwaahs! - So there is a case for the U.

It is a bit like saying "Most people spell book with a double o, but I'm going to spell it bouk because I like it better"!

And, actually,the name is pronounced something like Eloweese, not Eloueese.....so Elouise doesn't help with the pronounciation.

I like Eloise though it reminds me of Abelard and Eloise which was a sad tale.

I think in the days of e-mail having what is essentially a misspelt name is really unhelpful. Your family and friends will soon learn how to spell Eloise properly, and anyone she comes across later in life will spell it correctly too, because it will be as they expect if they have ever come across another Eloise. Otherwise she will have to spell it, and have in incorrectly spelt on a frequent basis. Which is annoying.

maybe your friends and family are just being polite.... seeing as you have chosen that spelling of it already ....

of course its important

totally agree on the classic / chavtastic comment !

i don't like it when people mess with a lovely name....

have had @ pre school a Kloe and Jorja ?! eugh why change lovely names to ugly chavvy ones ?!

and before anyone says "because its their child,and they wanted to " yeah i guess that

Of course the spelling of a name is important. Quite often, it is the difference between classic and chavtastic.

Actually, in my experience how you spell a name IS important. I have a very very unusual surname, that I always have to spell. My parents thought they were being helpful by giving me a well-known first name - but it happens to be one that has lots of possible spellings... I am resigned to it now, but when I was a kid I really hated having to spell out my name all the time. Do please think about this.

You weren't listening to Pick of the Pops yesterday, were you, Pp?

(Barry Ryan's Eloise was played )

Well,I read the thread title and thought'ooh, that looks odd, should be Eloise' (lovely name!)but after seeing it written all over the thread, I am used to it already and already it looks like a new name and pretty

Wishes more resembled poking your Tongue out...