Thought on Aliena

[MistyF]

As in variation on Alyona, and because of charcter in Shakespeare, not because aliens.
I would pronounce it A-lee-en-a. I dont mind slight variation in pronunciation, but do care that middle two syllables are pronounced lee-en.

Do you think Aliena is usable? I like Celia, as well, but not as Aliena.

Yeah, I pronounce it very similar to this

Aliena? Honestly awful.

Alina is lovely, please don’t lumber your child with an easily ridiculed name so you can have an unusual spelling.

Aniela is a real name?

I have a friend called Aleina and she is forever being called Alien or Eileen. Neither is great.

It has the double misfortune of being both a name nobody has heard of and resembling a word with some less than positive connotations. About as bad as a name can get.

I prefer Martiana tbh

Well its obviously the female version of Alien, no idea why people are having an issue with that

As others have said I think the 'alien' spelling will cause her problems. I like the pronunciation though - I'd probably spell it Alyena (or possibly even Alliena as that doesn't include 'alien' as the entire first part of the name!)

Yes exactly. Aliens can be male, female or non-binary. It's all good.

It looks like Alien-a to me too. I would work out which sound you like - the Ali or Enna and find another name. If you still want the name, I’d go for another spelling Alyena (admittedly lots of people might say Al-yena ) Alliyena, Allienna (I still see Alien) etc

No it just looks like Alien.
Your pronunciation is nice but there are more logical ways of spelling it that don't look silly written down.

Feels like it could be a name from Monster High, Ghoulia, Draculara, Aliena, Frankie Stein etc.

Nope, it's just Alien with an a at the end!

We hy not Alannah? So similar and hard to get wrong

If you like the play go with Celia or Rosalind. Or Phoebe. She's not going to thank you for calling her Aliena.

No idea at all!

"Come on, Alien .." 👾 👽 🎵🎶

I actually do prefer this!

Sounds a bit Hungarian I think.

Please don't, they are going to be called Alien!
Celia is much better

Or just go for Alyona?

I too read it as Alien-A.

Ilona
Lena
Aleena

I really like how it sounds, it’s just a shame about the spelling looking like Alien. Is there another spelling you could use? The sound Ally- EH- nuh is very pretty if you can get round the alien association with another spelling!

The sound of Aliena is beautiful, and it’s a lovely, medieval name afaik (I’ve only heard it as “Ah- Lee- en- ah” from a tv adaptation Pillars of the Earth).

But realistically most people won’t know that and are going to say it with a long A when they see it written down (like Alien with an A on the end) -so I don’t think it’s worth the potential teasing.

Since she would probably have to spell such a rare name anyway, you could try spelling it phonetically as Allyena to mitigate teasing - but it doesn’t look as pretty and may still get mispronounced.

Yeah I think most people will say alien-ah? With a somewhat incredulous look.

Sorry OP!

Is she a green bug-eye monster or from Mars?

(Yes its that bad)