Elouise?

[Pregapuss]

What do you all think of Elouise for a girl?

Love it, we considered it.

Personally I thought it was spelt Elouise (must have been in a baby name book that way) but if the traditional spelling is Eloise then keep it that way.

oooh look

Your link is not working here I am afraid so not sure what it was you were showing us.

Pamelat - Yes it is in a lot of baby name books as Elouise.

I didn't just "make it up". It is just one of 2 ways of spelling it.

Pamelat was linking you to a website called Thinkbabynames

this is what is said...

The girl's name Elouise \e-loui-se\ is a variant of Eloisa (Old German), and the meaning of Elouise is "famous warrior".

The baby name Elouise sounds like Elouisa and Eloise. Other similar baby names are Aloise, Elise, Elodie and Louise.

Elouise is a popular female first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Displayed below is the baby name popularity trend for the girl's name Elouise. Compare Elouise with related baby names.

So I am not being a mad woman when I spell it Elouise then? Lol

IMO Eloise is french and Elouise is like the English version. Although I knew a little girl called Elouise a few years ago and her mum was indian! Lol.

Héloïse

Héloïse is French

Another vote for saying 'Elouise' just looks wrong here I'm afraid.

I also feel it fails the supermarket test - sounds dreaful when howled down an aisle. Believe me - I've spent time at the school gate with the harassed mother of a rumbustious Eloise and when you've heard it yelled 'Eeeeeeeeeellllllllloooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze!' day in, day out for years on end - you've heard it enough!

Northenlurker - but surely that can be with any name?

Oi TARRRRRRKWIIIINNNN

Oddly that site has quite a few madeup spellings of names including mine. Just because its in a babyname book or on a site doesnt mean its correct. Just that if you then use one of these names you perpetuate the incorrect use.
When I saw it it made me think of my mum who is known as S. Barbara Surname (example) and I immediately wondered what the E stood for. Elizabeth maybe.
Call your child what you want. It'll be you and later the child explaining it to everyone.

We have an Eloise and not many people we have encountered can spell it or pronounce it. Forever correcting them and hearing el-oyse and it is normally very educated, articulate people who get it wrong. Mine is much older though, so maybe times have changed

sorry pregapuss - some names are worse than others!

scaredoflove - that is what I thought when we first came across it.

It isn't just that baby name site that has it. No that doesn't make it "right" but then what does?

I think it is unwise to look at American baby name sites when naming an English baby. Some of those sites will tell you that any random combinations of letters are names (just "unknown origin").

To me, it looks like a slightly diferent name.
Eloise is said Ell oh eeze.
And Elouise looks as if it might be pronounced Ell oo eeze.
I don't like the Elouise version.

I only looked on the website because everybody else on here (other than a select few) seem to be thinking I am just making it up, randomly changing the name of a spelling

Baby books are no defence. They have to include anything and everything or they'd be slim volumes indeed.

Heloise is a name from the Middle Ages.

Eloise is the modern day version in France. Pronounced the same, but spelled without the H.

If you look in a French calendar, Eloise se fete le 15 Mars. (Just how do you say this in English? )

If you look at the French birth stats, you will find plenty of modern day Héloïses.

Eloise is popular but chavvy slightly less chic .

Oh, Anna, I had Eloise as a front-runner on my girls' names list...didn't know it was considered chavvy in France!

Oh FGS Eloise is not chavvy. Grow up.

Ooh that's interesting, Anna.. what other names are less chic in France? Do they do kreativ spelling over there?

I love Eloise.
However DD mentioned a friend she has called Eloise yesterday and DP thought it was what on MN would be called 'Chavvy'.

Is he French LilMatchGirl?

Eloise seems to my ears (and most people on here too, it seems) to be a very pretty name and not chavvy at all. Perhaps it's because the only Eloise I know of is Eloise who lives in the Plaza Hotel!