Eslyn or Elsie

[WhatAboutSecondBreakfast86]

I have just found out i am having my first girl after 3 boys so v excited!
My favourite name right now is Eslyn, love the meaning behind it and I have only known one other person use it who i no longer see now as was an old neighbour. Also Elsie is growing on me. DH and I previously decided on Sienna when we I was expecting our 2nd son as we didn't find out the sex, but i feel that this name is too overused now.
Also really like the irish name Saoirse.
what do people think?

@NamingNoNamesyes that’s how I understood it. My point really was that I think that knowing “yn” is masculine is quite well understood even in England (though I do live in an area with a reasonable amount of Welsh people). So if one of my children bought home an invitation to Eslyn’s birthday party, I’d assume that was a boy unless the invitation design was clearly a girls’ one.

maybe that doesn’t bother OP but I thought it was worth considering 🤷‍♀️

Elsie. No to Eslyn. Doesn't sound great IMO.

Saoirse is nice, and it sounds nice, when it's pronounced correctly.

But no-one will ever prounounce it correctly - or spell it correctly (unless you're Irish/living in Ireland.)

Eslyn doesn't make a nice sound to my ears.

I've always loved Elsie -- it was my grandma's name. Technically it's a diminutive of Elizabeth but it was her whole name and she was born pre-WW2, so!

@WhatAboutSecondBreakfast86 , Elsie blends into all the El- names and seems samey. I think it's a bit 'Cabaret' too.

I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour

Thanks everyone!
After hearing that some of you think Eslyn sounds masculine that puts me off a bit!
As far as very feminine names are concerned, I don't live in the uk and nearly all girl's names here end in 'a' which i have never been massively into as i automatically think they sound a bit stripper ish i know that sounds silly.

There is quite a pretty name here 'Detelina' which means Clover. But its a long name whereas i prefer 2 syllable names! fussy i know lol.

I also have Harriet, Margot and Freya on the list.

Eslyn is lovely. It's really not a tricky name to pronounce - just the right side of unusual.

What about Elise? Feels similar to both of the names you like and would work when she’s an adult too. And you could call her Elsie or Ellie as a nickname if you wanted?

I like Eslyn out of your options, but I'm one to always go for the more unusual option. Elsie and Sienna are very plain to me, and more popular than I'd be happy with. Does Eslyn go with your sons names?

Harriet, Margot, and Freya are all lovely.

Eslyn Is lovely. I’ve never heard it before but it’s beautiful whilst not being too “out there”. She will always have to spell her name out to people though.

Thanks, I have a name with a hundred spellings!

A hundred different spellings? Wow.

Sor-sha is mispronouncing it. It’s her name after all, so she can pronounce it whatever way she wishes, but it’s not the correct pronunciation in the Irish language. In Irish the letter combination aoi doesn’t ever represent the vowel sound in Sor.
(Also, said correctly the sound at the end of Saoirse is more ‘eh’, not an ‘ah’ as in Diana.)

Well it might as well have 😏

Mine probably has a hundred ways people can get it wrong.

Eslyn is unusual but hardly silly, and Elsie is a top 10 name. Plenty of Elsies born around 1910s or so on, it's not a brand new trend. Absolutely none of her peers will think Elsie a silly name, because it's not!

Elouise on the other hand is a misspelling which really grates (either Louise or Eloise are fine).

Elouise on the other hand is a misspelling which really grates (either Louise or Eloise are fine).
I agree. It's neither one nor the other.

Emelia grates in the same way.

Eslyn might be misspelt as Eslin, Ezlyn, Ezlin etc.

Elsie was one of our top runners 7 years ago and since then it's become v.popular. We had a DS so didn't need it - this time it's back on the list for a girl but only because my son has made it his top girl name - we never told him any of the baby names we liked and i have 0 idea where he got it from - seems oddly fated.

Sienna Millar. Beatrice’s daughter is Sienna. My neighbour s dog!

Ok one actress! I didn’t remember Beatrice’s daughter’s name.
No one I know personally or any child in our primary school (200 children) is called Sienna.

Eslyn is really different. I like it

Definitely Eslyn, it’s inspired and not at all masculine. It is quite a formal name so she’ll need a sweet nickname for when she’s little.

If not how about Clover?

Sienna name popularity. It's been in the top 25 girls' names for the past 11 years, top 100 for 19 years. Was hardly used until Sienna Miller became famous.

Thanks everyone for all your input!
Last night we went through the top 1000 baby names and ended up choosing something completely different.
Soraya. Not everyone's cup of tea but we both love it!
think its was number 500ish on the list!