Elouise?

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What do you all think of Elouise for a girl?

Prefer Eloise. Love Eloise, in fact.

prefer Eloise, very pretty though

Think it's traditionally spelled without the "u" - but I think it's lovely.

Spell it Eloise, and I love it

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yes traditionally spelled Eloise. it's very nice

Eloise is lovely

I know it is traditionally spelt Eloise but we wanted to spell it Elouise.

Why?
It just looks wrong.....

Looks a bit odd spelt Elouise I think. Makes me think of email for some strange reason. I really like Eloise though. Or Louise is fine without the e.

Eloise is a lovely name. Why do you want to spell it differently? I get really unnecessarily annoyed when people take a lovely name and try and be different by changing the spelling!

Sorry - It's just a bugbear of mine.

Of course it's your choice, but the name Eloise seems to be catching on now, so most people will have heard it and will think they know how to spell it. If you use the Elouise spelling, you'll constantly be having to say 'no, with a U between the O and the I'.

It looks peculiar, and like preggers I think it looks like E-louise to me, maybe a virtual Louise. Poor child will spend her life grumbling because people spell it 'wrong' - a name that people think they can spell is worse than one no one can spell (IMO, as someone who spent 27 years with a surname that was NOT the same as someone very famous, but sounded like it was).

Eloise is lovely-why would you want to spell it differently? Your poor DD would have a lifetime of spelling it for people and explaining that her parents could spell, they just wanted to be different!

I agree the spelling should be Eloise.

It is dd2's middle name and I love it and still wish i'd had it as her first name.

Ok, my DD's name is Elouise and I don't think she is a "poor child"

We spelt it Elouise because when we wrote out a list of possible names, nobody seemed to even know how to prounce Eloise and they kept saying Ellise and similar. yet when we wrote Elouise they knew what it was as it is written as it sounds.

I think it is a lovely name personally

Eloise - please don't wreck the spelling of a pretty name. Elouise makes it chavy imo.

I just came to see how you pronounced Elouise. I thought it must be Louise but with an e sound in front of it. Like Email!

Sorry but if you want to call her Eloise then spell it right or you will get lots of people saying it incorrectly. But if you are happy to correct then...

Eliose. Beautiful name. Why change the spelling? Looks a little naff...

Hmmm. Or even Eloise.

Love it when Eloise

agree that Elouise just looks wrong!

why take a name and spell it incorrectly? Just makes you look illiterate.

Agree with the others - Eloise is a gorgeous name (a bit biased because I have one). Personally wouldn't go with Elouise because it does look a bit naff, but also it changes the pronunciation from EL - O - EESE to E - LU - EESE. Eloise is a traditional name (albeit relatively uncommon), whereas Elouise just seems too modern and try hard for me.
HTH

just to be the millionth person to say Eloise is nice. Elouise is a confusing jumble.