baby girl name

[Marinfamily4]

Aila Meave is the name 🫶🩷

That could be pronounced so many different ways…

I’ll be honest and not heard of either name.

Aila I would presume was Isla.

Misread Meave as Mauve at first. Is it pronounced Mee-ve?

I would have no idea how to pronounce either of those names.

Is it All-ya Meeve?

Is this effectively Isla Maeve?

I'm not familiar with Aila, but it makes me think of 'Ailing' and 'Fail', and it's a bit samey with all the Avas, Adas and Islas.
Shouldn't Meave be Maeve?

I think there are nicer and more distinct names you could choose.
How about Ailsa Maeve?

Lovely - thanks for the update 🥰

Meave? Or Maeve?

Are you asking for opinions about your choice?
Or making some sort of announcement which seems a bit unusual as MN is anonymous ? As people are likely to comment on the name - not always favourably - which you probably will be upset by if you've already named your dc.

@RecordBreakers ,OP has another thread Baby girl names | Mumsnet

Thanks @Emanwenym

It would have been more sensible to have let people on that thread know, if you wanted to, rather than starting a new thread @Marinfamily4 , which people will see in Active threads without having seen your original thread.

Aila - Isla

Why not just use Isla then? There is an Ayla in my daughter’s class, Ay rhyming with May. Your second name sounds like Meeve but do you mean Maeve pronounced Mave? You seemed to be asking for opinions by posting on a forum, so I’m just letting you know there could be confusion with the pronunciation!

I thought the Meave was a typo but when I looked it up, it is an alternative spelling.

I would read 'Aila' as

Ale - ah. Ale to rhyme with Rail / Hail / Fail

But Isla is pronounced

Eye- lah

I think Isla is a much better known spelling and therefore the pronunciation is much clearer. Aila could be pronounced ail-a.

And Maeve is how you spell the middle name, not Meave.

It's not an alternative spelling.

Meabh with a fada on the E is the alternative, Irish language spelling. The fada gives the E a long A sound.

The name is Anglicized as Maeve. That is the only authentic Anglicisation.

Both names look like you can't spell and guessed the names- doesn't make you 'unique'. Isla Maeve or Ayla Maeve would be 100 times better.

Aila in Welsh reads as Isla, so Aila Mif/Mef might work, @Marinfamily4 .

That's interesting Emanwenym .
Although I can't help thinking if the OP were living in a Welsh speaking part of Wales, she would probably have mentioned it.

I doubt that she is, or she'd have picked the dreadful welshified middle name.

If you want Isla, call her Isla. Aila is said ale-ah

I would assume Aila is pronounced to rhyme with Failure.

@Possiges , it doesn't but it's not far off.

Please spell the middle name Maeve