How would pronounce the name Ayla?

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Hi all,
Asked people's view on this name yesterday, so thank you for that, but DH and I disagreed about how people would read it and pronounce it.
We like the version Ayla (as in rhymes with Layla), is this how you would read it or would you read it as Isla.
Other spellings are Aela, Aila or Aayla....

Yes, to rhyme with Layla, and it's a beautiful name. (Would have been my DS's if he had been a DD) :)

glad you think it's that way.
I absolutely love it, but if DC2 is a girl don't want to curse her with a name everyone mis-pronounces for the rest of her life!

It's pronounced as eye-lah.

It's a Hebrew name, meaning 'oak tree', and is a variant spelling of Eila.

As someone who is fluent in Hebrew, I would always pronounce this as name as 'eye-lah'.

my friend called ayla pronounces it as tess has advised.

My friends DD is called Ayla and they pronounce it Eye-lah like Tess said.

I knew an Ayla and it was pronounced eye-la.

I would pronounce it to rhyme with Layla. I think if you're in an anglophone environment, and you want the name to be pronounced to rhyme with miler (as in four minute miler) then you will have to spell it Isla, which would always be pronounced that way.

IMO it is a horrid name! And one that has dubious pronunciation whichever way you spell it...

It is a name used in Turkey with that spelling pronounced eye-la.

I think Aela may be better...

I think Aela may be better...

I'd have said aisle-a. Or a-la. either way its quite nice.

My rl name is extremely ordinary and no bugger gets it right either. Wouldn't stress on it.

I would pronouce as Isla.

But do you seriously want to saddle your daughter with a name that will be mispronounced and misspelt all her life? Given you've posted twice on MM to canvass opinion and had people provide varying pronunciations and spellings, surely this is an indication of the pitfalls ahead? I just don't get it - sorry!

Reading the title, I said both in my head as I wasn't sure, but as someone whose name is mispronounced all the freakin' time, that's no biggie.

(Although my game has become much much much more common in the last 5 years.)

I would have pronounced it to rhyme with Layla. Just shows how ignorant I am because I have never come across this name before. I think that might be indicative of the reaction you will get.

This is the name of one of the characters in the Jean M Auel books. I've always read it as eye-la.
I like it, but probably because I've been reading the books for 15 years and have got used to the name.

I've never come accross it before but would assume it was eye-la and that you were misspelling isla.

I'd pronounce it eye-la too.

What about Ailsa?

She will have people getting it wrong all her life.

The best thing to do would be to name her Layla and use Ayla as a nickname.

I would pronounce it to rhyme with Layla. Beautiful name!!

I would pronounce it to rhyme with Layla.

My dd is Ayla and we pronounce it how it "Ay-la, although i do find a lot off people seem think its "eye-la"

*how it looks, sorry

I'd pronounce it as Ay-la. Makes me think of Clan of The Cave Bear. Nice name.

SVN that is exactly where i got the name from