Isla?

[jenrose29]

What are your thoughts on this name?

It's nice. I know three Isla's though. I e is five and her mother is Scottish. One is six and she is from Japan and one is 9 months and she is Iranian.

Dodgy apostrophe there!

So long as she doesn't want to marry someone with the surname White or Mann.

I have NEVER thought of that! I will now though...

lovely but prob more common than you think amongst new babies

Ha, someone beat me to it with the surname thing.
Fine if you don't have a surname that is the same as an island.

I like it & know of one baby with that name.

LOVE it but it is definitely getting quite popular if that bothers you.

I must say I like it. Though I don't usually go for the more unusual names. But it seems to be getting more popular.

Do you pronounce it Ee-sla (like Isla Bonita) or Isle-a? If it is the latter, a lot of non English speakers will mispronounce it imo.

Isla Mann or Isla White

really overused.

Loads in Scotland if that bothers you

Friend called this just married a chap with surname whyte

I like it, its a lovely name and I don't know any kids called Isla.

Not especially keen, but then I'm old enough to remember this

How about Iona?

It's my aunts name. She's in her 60s

I loved the name Isla when having DD2 - shortly after we had her we text everyone saying she would be called Isla or (current name). We got LOADS of people saying IS-LA! That put me off straight away as very few people know how to pronounce it - unless they know one already. We chose our other name in the end for this reason despite loving it.

I don't know any Islas (south west london) and I wouldn't even know how to pronounce it (Ees-la or Ayla)?

I would pronounce it I-La. I didn't realise there were other ways to pronounce it!

The Madonna song Isla Bonita comes to mind, hence Ees-la as another way of pronouncing it.

My daughter's name, but we used a different (and more meaningful to us) spelling. Unfortunately it has become very popular, so if this bothers you I would find something else - I would imagine if you give a baby this name now the likelihood of others in her class will be high. I can't imagine anyone having difficulty with the pronounciation, particularly now it is so well known.

Lovely name, very popular,

Would only say it as Aye- Lah. Have never heard it pronounced in any other way...

Nice name and know of one called Isla (she's just over 2yo now).

I love it, it was one of our possible names although spelt, Aylar.