Alice or Alys

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Middle name will be Catherine Victoria

Alice! Never Alys that's daft and she'll spend her life correcting people, who'll internally be rolling their eyes!

I think they are both nice names, but I am not at all familiar with the Alys-spelling. I am not from the UK, though. Is it pronounced similarly to Alice?

Ummm. Unless she’s using the Welsh spelling.

Alice.

Please don't condemn your daughter to a lifetime of correcting people.

Alys is more commonly associated with Wales and France, so unless the other two names have similar associations it might look a bit odd. So Alice in that case. Or Alys Catrin… we don’t have a Welsh version of Victoria as it’s Latin.

I don’t know, my name is Welsh and my 45 years of explaining it to people it has led to some very interesting conversations, particularly about Welsh history.

Speaking of names, I drove through Eryri earlier today!

I worked with an Alys and loved her name. I think it's really pretty.

Alys. It’s beautiful.

Alys is beautiful.

Alys 😊

Same 😊

Both are lovely. I prefer Alys personally and it's on my list as a middle name. I am Welsh though. I think if you don't live in Wales the Alice spelling might be better for a first name otherwise she'll constantly be correcting people.

I wanted to use Alys (husband is Welsh), but we live in England and I didn't want her to spend her life correcting the spelling (like I have to do with my name. Alys is beautiful!

Alys is the Welsh spelling so not daft.

I don't like Alys. I'd be wondering if I was saying it right.

Don't use Alys unless you or your partner are Welsh- why use the welsh spelling if you're not welsh?!

Alice. Unless you're Welsh

Alys is soooooooo pretentious.

Alyce?!

If in England use Alice.
If in Wales use Alys.

It's said exactly the same so depends on your country surely

Are you Welsh? Alys is the Welsh spelling so unless you're living in Wales spell it Alice

my daughters middle name is ALYS.
her father is welsh.

Even if you're Welsh?!

How about Alis. Short for Alistair.

Alys if there is a Welsh connection. Otherwise Alice.