Help us with girl name

[ldnelegantelephant]

We have narrowed it down to Elyanna / Angelina?
Which do you prefer?
I prefer Angelina (Angie for short), DH prefers Elyanna

If you call her Elyanna, she‘ll spend her whole life having to spell it out - people will put Elianna or Ellianna. Angelina is a sweet name - and you can get her all the Angelina ballerina stuff.

Elianna

If you call her Elyanna, she‘ll spend her whole life having to spell it out
This. If i heard it, I'd think it was Eliana. Highly likely to be Ellie.
How about Angelica?

Are you pronouncing Ellyanna like Eliana? It's a nice name, but I would spell it Eliana as that's a more common/recognisable spelling.

I prefer Eliana. It’s a nice name but I think the spelling you’ve gone with doesn’t work.

How are you pronouncing it? Ellie - Anna, or Ellie - Ahna?

@NuffSaidSam I have short vowels so would say Elly- anna, but regardless of spellng she would get Elly-a(r)-na and Elly-anna.
Eliana is the most usual spelling, then Elianna.

Pronounced same as Eliana but I prefer the spelling Elyanna 😭

How would you say Eliana? Elly-arna or Elly-anna?

You might prefer the spelling, but you need to think about what your daughter would prefer. Eliana sounds exactly the same, and your daughter won't have to spend her life correcting people.

I think that’s a bit confusing as when you see “Anna” in a name, that’s how you’ll pronounce it.

Elyana?

I think it's best to not be too creative with spelling when it comes to your child's name. Generally best, for ease, to stick with the most traditional/common spelling. It still sounds the same after all.

Yes the spelling ‘Elyanna’ that you prefer, completely changes the pronunciation, making it a completely different name. ‘Eliana’ looks and sounds lovely and will save your daughter from a lifetime of having to correct people.

What about Elyana?

@ldnelegantelephant , Elyana, Elyanna, Elianna, Eliana
Eliana is by far the most popular selling.

Elyanna but spelt Eliana.

spelling

Eliana.

Eliana

Definitely Eliana. Elyanna is just setting her up for a lifetime of sounding out her name.

I love the name Elyanna, much prettier than Angelina in my opinion, and personally I think Angie is very old fashioned and not in the good way yet.

Also just to add to the chorus Elyanna looks like 2 names put together Ely-Anna. Bit clunky and unnatural to an English speakers eye perhaps. Much prefer the Eliana spelling, it looks nicer and is simpler to understand.

Both lovely names.

I prefer Eliana (I like arna names) and I love Angelica too.

If you really like the look of the Ely rather than Eli,
Ellyanna? Still looks 'wrong' but mispronunciation will be minimal.
Elly-Anna? (I like them, but that'll really get the Mumsnet back up, a hyphenated first name!)

Angelina's nice. I don't think Eliana spelled as Elyanna or Elyana works well, but how about Ayana/Ayanna, Ilyana/Iliyana, or even Alannah?

Yep - it's very weird -

So for this reason Angelina

But I think Evangeline is nicer

I don't like spellings that are so unusual I wonder if they aren't made up so I'd say Angelina.

But for me Angelia Jolie spoils it a bit (I don't like celeb culture), so I'd also go for Evangeline (which I love) or Angelica.