If Eilidh is the 'correct' spelling....

[whit32]

Eily is at the top of our list! :-) I love the name! I voted for Eiley.

[ashthedreamer]

How are you saying Isley? I would say Isley as EYE-lee, but Eilidh is AY-lee... If you want EYE-lee, I think Isley would be the most natural spelling for it. If you like AY-lee, I would go with Eilidh--it looks sweetest and classiest to me.

Good luck!

[characternamer]

I would do Isla nn Islie, because it seems easier to pronounce and I have a problem with proper names ending in -i, -ie, -ey, or -y, I prefer having them as nicknames, I don't know why (Probably don't seem like full, proper names to me). Plus, Isla is the most well known of all of these.

[jasmine.lee]

Eislie

~Jasmine

[agirlinred]

Eilidh and "eye-lee" are two different names. To be honest "eye-lee" would not be my first thought for any of the spellings you listed.

I always think it's funny when someone complains that Eilidh, Caoimhe, Siobhan, etc are not spelled the way they sound. That is because they are from a different language. You would think that would be obvious...

[emag08]

Islie!!

[jeska]

I hate the original spelling. Sorry all those who love it, but in an American environment that spelling isn't seen as lovely and classic, it's seen as creative and cruel. It's not spelled remotely like it sounds.

I like Eiley best though Isley is okay

'Creative and cruel'? Why would anybody think that?? I'm sure Americans are aware of other languages outside English. Anyone with any common sense is going to realise 'Eilidh' is not a 'creative' spelling like 'Ayyleigh'.

[jersey_gray]

I would not pronounce any of those names in the poll as Ay-lee. If I saw Eilidh I would not even try to pronounce it, but the other spellings I would all mispronounce.

Islie=eye-lee or is-lee
Eislie=eye-lee
Isley=is-lay, eye-lay, is-lee, or eye-lee
Eiley=eye-lee
Eilidh=no clue, maybe eyelid?

My vote is go with the original spelling. There is no good phonetical spelling unless you literally write out how you want it pronounced, Aylee. I don't care for the sound of Aylee (regardless of spelling) but I love Eiley (eye-lee).

[aprilw]

Thanks for the input, we've decided to go with Eiley.

Didn't mean to offend, just trying to figure out an anglicized spelling. Unfortunately, the fact is, if we spelled it the original way, which evidently is not prn like I thought, she'd forever be called eyelid or eyelid-ah here in the US.

On an alternate note, I did find Eiley listed in a baby name book as an alternate form of Eileen. So either way, I believe it's real, and not a made up name.

[jersey_gray]

'Creative and cruel'? Why would anybody think that?? I'm sure Americans are aware of other languages outside English. Anyone with any common sense is going to realise 'Eilidh' is not a 'creative' spelling like 'Ayyleigh'.

I would have to disagree. Eilidh and Ayyleigh both look like random letters thrown together to be "creative" and "unique"-and I do have common sense and I am aware English isn't the only language in the world.