What is THE pronunciation of Anaïs?

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I’ve heard:
Anay
Anayse / Anayze
An-eye-eez
An-ice

Feeling vv confused - pls help!

The perfume wasn’t Anay Anay though. I think the last time we had this thread someone linked to the ads and it wasn’t pronounced ‘anay’. It seems to be one of those things that everyone misremembers.

I've always pronounced it Anne nay

An eye eese

The dots on the i make it an ee sound

I thought A-Nay. But l could well be wrong....

Like naïve

Thanks all, okay stupid stupid question:
Is it an-eye-eese, as in Reese
Or an-eye-eez, as in cheese

If you get what I mean :)

Like reese.
An eye eese.
I do know one but her mum calls her an A. In a strong Manc accent.
(Before anyone jumps on my I'm not taking the mick im from Manchester too)

S not Z

an-eye-eese, as in Reese this one!

The advert pronounced it correctly (ie Ann eye ees). I remember this as I liked the perfume and called it Anay Anay, and was surprised to hear it pronounced as it was in the ad.

If you’re going to use a foreign name, make sure you pronounce it correctly if it has accents.

Advert says it correctly

I think an-ay-ees or an-eye-ees, with a soft s sound like fleece.

An-eye-ees. I think the perfume advert pronounced it An-eye-ees.

Thank you so much all
@troppibambini I’m a fellow Manc although been living in Suffolk for 10 years now, so my accent has faded a bit. My name is Paisley and it absolutely fascinated my southern boyfriend at the time how my family and friends up there pronounce it paezz-leh (hard to type how it’s pronounced) haha.

My memory is faulty ...

Ah-niece

I always thought it was Ahnay but depending on where you're from it can be pronounced Ah-niece

I would say Ana-eese (to rhyme with geese as opposed to cheese).

An-ay is nice as well.

I wouldn’t give a baby a name that either nobody knew how to write, or nobody knew how to say.
It just leads to the child/adult having to clarify it for the rest of their life or listen to it being mispronounced. But then again I’m quite boring and perhaps that’s old fashioned and the child/adult won’t mind and will just get used to it as they won’t know what it’s like to have a more familiar name that nobody enquires about!

An-eye-iss

If you chose a foreign name I think you need to pronounce it authentically.

I honestly think it only sounds good in a French accent - English vowels just can’t quite do it cos we make the ‘eye’ too long

m.youtube.com/watch?v=NeZdE6JCK0Y

m.youtube.com/watch?v=kB_rQvROA6A

My French SIL has named my DN this. I have listened to what her parents and sibling call her and it's A-niece.
My MIL (DN's GM) has called her A-nay-is, A-knee-us and has finally settled on Ana-ese. DN answers to any of the above.

Definitely An-eye-ees

Not An-ay