Alaïa

[angelinsky]

Thoughts?

Fashion designer?

Very pretty, I like it

Pronunciation would need to be explained (ah-lay-uh or ah-lee-uh?) as would the umlaut. Could be annoying but arguably you'd only need to explain it once then move on. It is a very pretty name though. Why not Aaliyah?

Could be pronounced as A-liar, which isn't so pretty.

The diaeresis would mean that it's pronounced Al-a -ee-a.

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The ï means that that letter is pronounced separately. Like Zoë or Noël.

I wouldn't know how to pronounce it.

I think she would have a lifetime of having to spell and correct her name to people.

Azzedine.

Looks clumsy.

Would it be pronounced Al-eye-eea (trying to work out from Anaïs)

I like it

A garlicky dip ?

Quick goggle said it was pronounced 'ah liar'. Not a fan of that. Aaliyah I like.

For goodness sake--she will have a lifetime of having to tell people how to spell and pronounce the name. Don't do that to her. Yeah, she'll only have to tell people once. Every single person she meets...

@DulciUke I know I didn't like to mention that part

Frith, you're thinking of Aioli.

It reminds me of Clueless when Cher gets robbed.

Not spelt like that. It looks like an emoji and i can see it leading to years of red tape nightmare.
But Alaia is lovely.

Azzedine
...
A Liar

The "lifetime of spelling it" always bugs me. I have a VERY boring, common name which, unfortunately, has at least 3 spellings. This means I am cursed with a boring yet unspellable name.

This is teamed with a very unusual spelling for a very common surname, inherited from FIL as we think it was made up when he entered the country.

My son has a biblical name with only one spelling but people really go to town on it and spell it all sorts of weird and wonderful ways...including DH on occasion.

It's a lovely name, go for it if you like it!

“You don’t understand! This is an Alaïa!”
“An a-what-a?”
“It’s, like, a totally important designer.”
“And I will totally shoot you in the head. Get down!”

Just, why?