How would you pronounce this name....

[BettyBoo246]

Alicia?

A - liss - e - a
Or
A - lee - sha

I love the first pronunciation but hate the second. Is there another way some might spell it so it’s more obviously pronounced the first way?

The name the OP is looking for is Alyssia.

Or the original pronunciation of Alicia.

Patricia is pronounced Patreesha or Patrissia.
Fakt.

According to someone who works in a big comprehensive it’s a class thing( round here at least).

So middle class kids
Alissia
Working class
Alisha

Though obvs there are exceptions.

Patricia is pronounced Patreesha or Patrissia

Patrissia? Seriously? I've heard Patreesha here in Ireland but I thought that was down to accent.

I met a Marcia at university in the 1980s. I thought it was pronounced Mar see ah but she was from the USA and was Marsha.

The Alicia I know is pronounced Al iss ee ah. Al ee sha is the more common US pronunciation which younger people seem to use.

A-lee-sha I know 2 people who spell it and say it like that.

First way

Sounds like there are several common pronunciations, which could be really annoying in the long by run.

I agree it's a class thing:

Middle class/private school/white - A-liss-ee-a

Working class/More diverse/comprehensive - Aleesha

Is it the same with Patricia? The class thing?

At least, at the private school I went to, I knew two girls called Alicia pronounced Alissia.

My dc go to a comp in a more ethnically & financially diverse area, and there are one or two Alicias pronounced Aleesha among their friends.

With Patricia, I've only ever heard of the Patrisha pronunciation, with a short 'i' as in stick, rather than an 'ee' sound like in Aleesha.

Although this name and its varients ate actually pretty names, I hate them with a passion now because I know so many young (teen to early 20s) Alicia, Alyssa, Allissia, Alisha varients, often with pronunciation which seems to go with a different spelling, and I have mortally offended a couple of them by getting them mixed up.

I don't get the young women mixed up, I know which is which perfectly well, but I cannot keep their almost but not quite identical names straight in my memory.

I wish they either had totally different names or actually identical ones.

Never give a kid a name that has too many similar variants in popular use! They'll be forever thinking people have them muddled up with someone else.

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But Alicia isn’t English in origin so wouldn’t follow the same rules anyway.

Aleesha is by far the newest pronunciation of the name and also the least pretty.

At first glance I'd go for A-LISS-ee-ah. But I wouldn't assume as I know so many varia

Variations, sorry. (Hit "post" too early)

So would most be more inclined to spell it Alyssia so there’s hopefully less confusion?
My dh thinks we should go with the different but similar name of Alyssa as less “complicated” and “fussy”

I'm a teacher and come across both pronunciations all the time. I will ask the girl before I say it. As long as your future dd has the confidence to correct people if they get it wrong it will be fine. Or you could spell it Alissia to avoid confusion, although it doesn't look as nice I don't think.

So would most be more inclined to spell it Alyssia so there’s hopefully less confusion?

No, Alyssia just looks made up.

Alicia is the nicest spelling. People will only need to be told once/twice how to pronounce it and then they'll remember.

The name the OP is looking for is Alyssia

Or the original pronunciation of Alicia

Yes well the 'original' pronunciation of Alicia, clearly going by this thread is going to cause mispronunciation problems isn't it. Going with Alyssia there is no chance of the A-lee-sha pronunciation.

No, Alyssia just looks made up.

Every single name has been made up.

Option A - always.

I'd say it the first way, the same way as I'd pronounce Felicia, or the ending of Marcia. I just presumed she was A-liss-ia Keyes when I saw it written down, and was surprised when I heard it the first time (I also made that mistake with that well-known rapper Jay-Zed ).

I knew the A-LISS-i-a pronunciation first and still prefer it.

I know three (one adult, two children) and they all pronounce it Alisseea.