Anyone help with an irish name?

[Beccad96]

We are due are 3 baby which is a girl and love the name Èala, how is this pronounced? Would you say ayla or is there another known spelling for this name.. many thanks

Hi Éala is pronounced ay (rhyming with day) and la
So ay-la.

It would be ‘at la’ as you say . I’m Irish and never heard of it . Note the accent ( fada) should be the other way .

Sorry ay la

How can you love a name without knowing how it’s pronounced?

I’m in Ireland and it’s not a name I’m familiar with.

How can you love a name without knowing how it’s pronounced?

Exactly this.

If you can't pronounce it, then you've already lumbered your future daughter with a pain in the arse name that she has to spell and pronounce her whole life.

To me I would pronounce it ayla but some pronounce it isla! So I want the right spelling of ayla rather than isla

Oh OK thank you. How would you spell it? Just want the right spelling

It seems to mean swan, but with fada added to get desired pronunciation. I think it’s rather lovely.

I can pronounce it just want the right spelling of the name so it matches how I say it

It is lovely, but I don't see the point in using the Irish spelling if you aren't Irish and have to ask how to pronounce it.

Why not just use Ayla if you like the way it’s pronounced but aren’t Irish or living in Ireland?

Why not write it as Ayla to get the right pronunciation?

The correct spelling is Éala. It's a beautiful name.

Never come across Éala before. Looks made up to me and when I google it I'm just getting lots of links to baby naming sites. Which furthers my suspicions. Some people saying it means swan but it doesn't. Eala is swan.

'Why not just use Ayla if you like the way it’s pronounced but aren’t Irish or living in Ireland?'

Quite right

I'm Irish and have never heard this name. I live in the UK now, and have an Irish name, and it's a pain in the backside - hardly anyone can say it or remember it

Just because you've stuck a fada on it and you've got the pronunciation right doesn't make it an Irish name.

Aila is a better spelling if you want to convey the sound.
Ayla is going to get Isla.
Eala with the fada on the E is going to be mispronounced as eela, ee-alla and more...

Ailsa is better all round though.

It would be ‘at la’ I thought oh she's from Donegal @FoodieToo

Just use Ayla OP

I’m Irish, that name isn’t.

Don’t do it , OP . My five kids have Irish names and attend Irish medium schools and even Irish people struggle to spell and pronounce them .

Eala means swan , I think the fada has just been added .

it actually sounds beautiful but if living in the UK or elsewhere, no !

I've never heard of it. I'm not saying that there aren't any Irish women out there with this name (given that Ireland is a country of millions of people), but it's not a common or traditional name and most Irish people will have never encountered it.

I'd recommend using Ayla if that's the pronunciation you want.

It’s quite nice imo but it’s going to get bogged down amongst all the Aylas, Ailas, Islas Laylas Lilahs etc

It’s come up on here before, but I’ve never actually encountered one and I suspect its origin is one of those daft US baby name sites that just grab words off the internet, add random fadas and claim they’re ‘Irish names’ for the gullible.

As others have said ‘eala’ (pronounced, roughly, ‘alluh’) is ‘swan’. Éala sounds more like ‘éalú’ (‘ay-LOO’)to escape, evade or elope. As in fire escape, prison breakout etc. Neither screams ‘name’ to me.

This is not an Irish name.
Also, there is no “accent grave” in the Irish language.

I'm Irish and I have heard of it but it's not every common.

Eala (I can't include a fada as I'm using my phone) should be on the e and going the opposite direction to yours). It's pronounced Eh-la.

Without the fada it's the Irish word for swan and it's pronounced Al-la.