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Marinfamily4 · 18/11/2025 06:07

Aila Meave is the name 🫶🩷

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Emanwenym · 20/11/2025 18:28

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

what does that mean ?
it’s known and common now but i changed the spelling of my likey

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Marinfamily4 · 23/11/2025 05:26

RecordBreakers · 19/11/2025 22:46

I would read 'Aila' as

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

But Isla is pronounced

Eye- lah

Aila - Eyla - Eila
Aleyah

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Marinfamily4 · 23/11/2025 05:30

RecordBreakers · 20/11/2025 16:39

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.

No i live in the US lol .

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Marinfamily4 · 23/11/2025 05:31

Calliopespa · 18/11/2025 09:20

Is this effectively Isla Maeve?

Yes

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Emanwenym · 23/11/2025 10:47

LOL about the spellings @Marinfamily4 . Both are ridiculous.

user2848502016 · 23/11/2025 10:58

I’d spell it Isla Maeve personally but it’s a beautiful name

LoveHearts69 · 23/11/2025 11:32

Marinfamily4 · 23/11/2025 05:31

Yes

Surely no one would pronounce Meave as Maeve? Completely different sounds. Meave would rhyme with weave and doesn’t sound as nice as Maeve. I usually like unusual names but this does just seem like you’ve spent it incorrectly.

Calliopespa · 23/11/2025 12:39

Marinfamily4 · 23/11/2025 05:31

Yes

That's where I got to, but I had to look at it a bit and sound it out to work that out.

Isla Maeve, with those spellings, would bat no eyelids in the UK. You have asked on a forum with a lot of UK based posters, so what you will have had is a lot of people saying just spell it "properly," because creative spellings are not much admired over here. I cannot speak for the US: maybe it's seen as boring if you don't "change it up"? But I think if you posted again with Isla Maeve, you'd get very happy responses - if you are interested in MN advice.

Why are mis-spellings disliked over here? Bluntly, I think people think it makes the mum look a bit stupid. Or Styoopud.

Emanwenym · 23/11/2025 13:04

@LoveHearts69 , ea can be said as ay - as in Ronald Reagan. Meave looks like a typo or a spelling mistake.

Marinfamily4 · 25/11/2025 05:45

user2848502016 · 23/11/2025 10:58

I’d spell it Isla Maeve personally but it’s a beautiful name

Thank you

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MeetTheGrahams · 25/11/2025 06:15

Screams illiterate chav parents with those spellings. Talk about ruining a pretty name

Emanwenym · 25/11/2025 09:00

It's not a beautiful name. It's a popular name spelt bizarrely.

MrsArcher23 · 25/11/2025 10:25

Just to throw a spanner in the works, the ‘correct’ spelling (as it’s an Irish name) is Méabh or Meadhbh. Anglicized to Maeve. Meave rhymes with Weave. Isla Maeve is a lovely name.

Shamesame · 25/11/2025 10:30

Ale-ah meeve

is how I’d pronounce them. Not eye-lah

Aisla is an alternative spelling and Maeve is Maeve.

Mammaneedswinehaha · 27/11/2025 09:36
mad bambi GIF

I dont really like it. It reminds me of my exes son. Goodbye

LadyDanburysHat · 27/11/2025 09:40

I would never pronounce Aila as Isla. I would assume it was an alternate spelling of Ayla. And Meave, what even is that? Other than a spelling mistake

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