How would you pronounce Alaïa??

[Shanonymous23]

I love the name Alaïa which I would pronounce as (A-lay-ah) but was just wondering how other people would pronounce it or whether it would be best to spell it Alaia without the double dot above the i.

I personally prefer the way it looks with an i/ï than spelt with a y (Alaya)

A lay a

I’d say it A Lie Ah

I would ignore the dots tbh

A-lay-a, but please don't use that spelling it's awful.

I'd be torn between Ah-Lay-ah and Ah-Lie-Ah, would probably go for the latter though because it's an i in the middle of the 2 a's

I read it as A-lay-a

It’s a fancy brand name, like calling your child Prada (girl) or Dior (boy) - both possible, but why 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Dont spell it like the brand, and it’ll be pronounced as people manage.

A lier ...which is perhaps not an ideal name

Like in Azzedine Alaïa - Wikipedia

@StewkeyBlue , It's an Arabic name transcribed into French.

Ah lie ah like the totally important designer

The designer is spelled Alaïa and is pronounced A-lie-uh. I would always assume that is the correct pronunciation.

I also couldn’t pronounce it as anything other than Ah-lie-ah because of Clueless.

”But this is an Alaia!”

This.

Anaïs
Naïve
Zoë

The dots mean 2 saparate vowels. Otherwise it would be Anays, Nayve, Zoe as in Joe.

But I always assume Rochelle Humes’s kid and the brand are Al-eye-a, rather than Alaya.

People will pronounce it however you/the kid does though. No biggie.

Your child will have to spend their whole life explaining spelling and pronunciation.

don’t saddle them with that name

Ah - lie -ah. It’s a fairly famous designer brand. If you wanted “Ah-lay-ah” then I really would spell it Alaya - might not look quite as pretty but at least it wouldn’t get regularly mispronounced or misspelt, which will be more of a pain imo. I suppose you might also get away with Aleia if that looks any better to you? Leia is a well known name so there shouldn’t be any issues with sticking an A on the front.

I know an Alaya, spelt like that and pronounced A -lay-ah. You could spell it like this, or like Aleia to get the pronunciation you want. Alaia will be given a ‘lie’ sound in the middle.

I actually think Aleia looks quite nice, and lots of people will understand how to pronounce it because of Princess Leia.

A-Lie-Ee-Ah

Alay

That's how I'd have approached it.

I don't know if the info is correct but: Alaia (variant of Alaya) - Unisex Names from Quranic Roots

Or “vowel”

The vowelly names are very popular where I live. Lots of Inanya, Amaya type names and they sound so similar.

I wouldn't. .

None of the ways you suggest. It's Al-a-ee-a