Elise, Elsie, Elisa, or Eliza?

[Talissa]

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Ooh, I had Elise and Eliza on my list. I'd have gone with Eliza if it had been solely my choice...

All very overused where I live.

Elsie.

Elise just looks like Elsie at first glance and people will not know how to pronounce Elisa....'

Eliza is nice too but I like Elsie better.

But they're all completely different names. Do you genuinely like them all as much as each other? Elise sounds sassy. Elsie is awful, frumpy and an OAP name. Elisa is a lab test and Eliza sounds like a Victorian doll and quite dreary. Elsa is better than all of them. But I prefer Coco or Tamsin!

Elisabeth and then they can choose!

Eliza

I like all of them except for Elsie which is a bit too cutesy for my tastes.

I think Eliza is the one least likely to provoke pronunciation confusion (assuming you're in the UK). I don't see that that's necessarily an issue (and DS and I both have names people sometimes trip over), but I know it's a major consideration for some people.

Elise or Elyssa.

Elsie is really dowdy and Eliza is very overused.

Eliza. Or Elise.

Elisa is a name you'd have to spell out every time. Elsie is nice but mainly for a girl not a woman.

As for names being 'overused', names are popular for a reason! Much better to use a recognisable name than some idiot jumble of letters in the hope that your baby will sound oh so special.

Elise

Or - wildcard - Eilis (ey-lish).

Hard choice as I like them all.
I would probably choose Elsie though I think.

Eliza, Elise is pretty but a bit chavvy common

Eloise? Much more elegant and a name in its own right

Eliza 100%. Not even a competition.

Elise is French.

Eliza - lovely
Elsie - nice
The other are a totally different class.

Eliza

My friend has an Elisa pronounced El ee ssa . I prefer it to the 'I' sound in Eliza. I like Elise too which has same 'ee' sounds in the middle.

For me they are quite different.
Eliza is classy, classic, smart and beautiful.
Elsie is classy but a bit more old lady chic.
Elise is the very opposite of classy where I am and Elisa even worse.

Elisa with the pronunciation Eleesa.

@Chunkymenrock

But they're all completely different names. Do you genuinely like them all as much as each other? Elise sounds sassy. Elsie is awful, frumpy and an OAP name. Elisa is a lab test and Eliza sounds like a Victorian doll and quite dreary. Elsa is better than all of them. But I prefer Coco or Tamsin!

Are you nuts?? They are all forms of Elizabeth and all of them v fashionable at the moment - and WTF does Coco or Tamsin (the former of which isn’t a name) have to do with it??

OP if I were you I’d put Elizabeth on the birth cert and then all of these options are open to your daughter.

For what nickname you start off with - Elisa (El-ee-sah) is probably the least popular so all things being equal I’d go for that.

I like Eliza and Elsa also.
Elsie I find twee (although OK as a little girls nn), Elise I think sounds a bit low rent outside of France.

Elise

Whichever you choose, put Elizabeth on the birth certificate, then she'll have options.

Elise

@partyatthepalace. Thanks for that. I have only ever come across them as names in their own right. It's quite tenuous to get Elise or Elsie from the random name Elizabeth.