Elsie and Eliza

[rufus86]

Our eldest dd is an Elsie, we are due 2nd dd in Feb. I really like the name Eliza, but not sure if it's too much like Elsie??

Well since there both deriditives of Elizabeth ofcourse there to similar.

Way too similar

Nothing like each other. It's fine.

Yes, aside from being popular 2-syllable, 5-letter girls' names that belong to the current trend for old lady names, beginning with the exact same syllable and followed by a sibiliant and vowel sound in the second syllable, liable to the same shortenings by friends ("Alright, El?"), and being derived from the exact same longer name, they are absolutely nothing like each other.

Mabel? Similar era and not alike.

Yes, aside from being popular 2-syllable, 5-letter girls' names that belong to the current trend for old lady names, beginning with the exact same syllable

Eliza is 3 syllables and Elsie is 2. They also have different first syllables - Eliza's is 'E' and Elsie's is 'El'.

But that aside I agree, they are too similar.

And the sibilant is in the 3rd syllable in Eliza and the 2nd in Elsie, and the sibilants aren't the same either.

I think it's weirder because they are both from the name Elizabeth, rather than the actual sounds, which are different.

Far too alike.

I think you need to go back to the drawing board.

If you love the name, then go for it. It's not as though it's going to be a surprise to you one day that they both begin with the same letter.

Spoken they sound fairly different.