If you insist on..

[Tarlia]

...calling your child "Isla" please spell it properly!! It's "Islay", and it is a beautiful Scottish Island on the west coast.

Am I missing something? A) what's with the name boom? B) why isn't it being spelt properly??

It's bugging me, it really is!

I used to work with a man called ILAY which was pronouned like Isla, and he said it was the male version.

Why does it bug you? My name is transliterated (if that's a word) from the cyrillic, so probably not spelled "properly" either.

blame Isla St Clair for popularising the mis-spelling

Isla St Claire spelt it Isla.

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You can spell it either way, I think.

Islay is the island.

I am Scottish and I think Isla is the more normal spelling for the name.

Tarlia I see your point with regards to the scottish isle and it's spelling Islay, The 'y' generally refers to the Isle / Island.

The spelling Isla comes from The River Isla and a Glen Isla. Don't really see why this would bug you...as it is the correct spelling!!

Australian actress Isla Fisher too (closet home and away fan)
I would spell it Isla.

Its not WRONG its just different. I don't think there are hard and fast rules to the spelling of names, I've seen some real hum-dingers:

Sheree
D'Ana
Kaytee

endless...

Islay is anglicised.

The actual Gaelic spelling is Ila or Ile

I don't think there's a 'wrong' spelling.

As a child I was once told off my a teacher who told me I'd spelled my name 'wrong' just because it's spelled differently to the commonly known spelling.

I would have guessed it was pronounced [eeslah], as in the Spanish word for 'island'.

But Isla looks so much nicer though!

Yes, if it after the Spanish for island, it's got to be EE-sla.

Isla is the female name, Islay is the male name, the gaelic for the island is Ile, not even Islay, there's Perthshire Glen and River Isla...not really sure what your problem is with the spelling of Isla?! Sorry to bump this but searching for names and this annoyed me. hormones!

Well, by OP's rules Islay is also incorrect. I thought it was from the Spanish.