Ayla or Isla

[Bythelake89]

What do you think of the names Ayla (pronounced as it's written) or Isla (pronounced Eye-la) as girl's names? Preference?

Isla !

To me these are very different names, I personally would use Isla but not Ayla as I have Scottish heritage, not Middle Eastern.

Isla- Beautiful Scottish name.

Isla

Isla

Isla is beautiful

Ayla is pronounced just like Isla by all the Turkish/Turkish Cypriot Aylas I know. I see both as different versions of the same name.

@Wallabyone ah that's good to know! Thanks

I was teaching a reception class (supply) al,OST full of Isla variants today.

Isla
Iyla
Iila
Arla
Aila
Ayla

I try so hard to get names right as it must be awful to have a stranger replace your teacher mispronouncing your name, I only got to grips with Isla and Arla.

I really struggle with Iyla as it looks like Lyla.

Isla

I know both and they are pronounces the same. I much prefer the spelling Ayla.

@QuillBill just google Isla after reading your post, and saw 'most popular baby names of 2019 are Archie and Isla!' I feel so unoriginal 😂

Isla ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Isla

Isla

Isla

Isla.. the other one is a complete bastardisation of the Scottish spelling. Kind of like equivalent of Neve or shovon!

Isla

@thetrinityisshite it really isn't a 'bastardisation'. Ayla is a Turkish name.

I live Isla my ds18 girlfriends name.
I work in pre.school and have lots of variants of names, spellings and pronounciation, it's fun trying to remember which is which

I like both :)

Also like Ailsa (ayl-sa) and Orla

@WindyMiller1020 Ailsa is very pretty 😍

Ayla - the glow/halo of the moon 😍 In Arabic and Turkish
Isla - meaning island in Scotland

Both lovely names but different to one another. They do sound the same.

I really love Isla
Much less popular numbers wise than it used to be according to the official data

Isla. Ayla looks ugly.