Alaia-Mai

[PollyJane]

Rochelle from The Saturdays and Marvin from JLS new baby....wdyt?

I think Aaliyah is a beautiful name and sounds much nicer than Alaia. (Said a-lee-uh)
Any name that sounds like a phrase isn't good IMO especially 'a liar'.

Alaia is so pretty if pronounced a-lie-ah. Would personally leave off the Mai, but a pretty name none-the-less. Reminds me of Maia which I also love.

ah, I didn't think of silly spelling of Aaliyah, I thought it was a tribute to Azzedine Alaia...

Is Aaliyah the same name as Alia (pron. AH-leah)? I know an arabic girl with that name, really pretty.

Alaia means joyful and mai translates as ocean or elegance in Chinese (according to the DM)

Fucking awful name. Hate, hate hate hyphenated named that end in mai/mae/may.

Not to my taste at all, not one aspect of it, but I wouldn't have expected it to be.

See, when our turn to be MILs rolls round and our grandchildren's names are announced, we are going to be all sniffy and pained, passive aggressive looks, aren't we?!

Awful

Hideous name

I want to like it but I don't. Alaia would have been fine, don't like the hyphen or the Mai part of it.

It's atrocious.

Is it Mai as in may or as in the Chinese pronounced My?
The i makes me read it as 'my' but 'A liar my' sounds poo

Bad for so many reasons I don't even know where to start

It's Ah-lie-ah itsn't it? Like the designer?

Horrible name imo.

I thought it was pronounced A-lee-ya my. Poor kid has no chance will always be correcting people. Not a fan.

in both Chinese and welsh Mai is pronounced pretty much as 'my'

I don't mind it! Wouldn't use it myself, but I've heard much worse and she can always drop the Mai bit if it dates badly.

I wonder if schools will have to have 'May/Mae/Mai' amnesties in the future and just call all the kids by the first part of their name?

Oooh am not keen on hyphenated names!
Alaia would have been ok just on its own but with the Mai, instead of May, it's all a bit too much.
Too matching, rhymey sounding.

I preferred Aoife Belle...!

I dislike names where everyone's scratching their heads about the variations in pronunciation...the get labelled idiots for pronouncing it wrong!

Glad I'm not a teacher is all I can say!

Hooting@ 'Mai amnesties'

I was pronouncing it A-lay-ah May, I wonder how the parents actually pronounce it, curious to know now!

I read it as A-lay-a May too. Although if that's correct then I think I would have preferred the spelling Alaya May so that there's no confusion over pronunciation.

It is pronounced A-Lie-A

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