How would you spell this name?

ourlilP · August 2014

Our chosen first name is Lydia. We love the middle name to be pronounced "ah-lease". How would you spell it? We don't want it mistaken for Alice.
-Alise?
-Alyse?
-Aleese?

misslizzy82 · August 2014

I like Alyse

musicgal05 · August 2014

I have a friend who is Elise, and it's pronounced a lot like you've described, with a little more "eh" sound instead of "ah". So I'd vote for Alise.

Our DD's name is Annelise, and we went back and forth on whether the first e should be an a. But I think we say it so quickly now that now it doesn't really matter a whole lot.

BookitBoo · August 2014

Alyse

MNgirl326 · August 2014

Elise

shannjohnston · August 2014

English teacher's perspective (who sees a lot of alternate spellings and also knows something about phonetics):
Alise and Alyse come off phonetically as 'ah-liss'. The other phonetic interpretations of these two utilizing the silent 'e' would be 'ah-lice', or possibly 'ah-lize'.
Aleese is phonetically 'ah-lease', or possibly 'ah-leez'.

Maebb · August 2014

Elise or Alise

Mrs_Bennett · August 2014

Maebb said:
Elise or Alise

Yup.

idontevenknow · August 2014

My daughter's middle name is Alyse... said the way you want it pronounced. I got the name/spelling from a girl I used to babysit whose middle name was the same. If you want one of the spellings that you have listed and not Elise, I wouldn't post this Q on the BNB, because they will recommend you to use the original spelling.

Eta that I work with someone whose name is Lyse pronounced "lease'.

NatureLovers · August 2014

Elise.

moonfaerie · August 2014

Elise

spoonleg · August 2014

Elise.

mc0113 · August 2014

Elise

motherboy · August 2014

There's such a slight difference between ah-leese and eh - leese that I would do Elise. It looks the nicest to me.

jmcmoe · August 2014

Elise or Elyse, Alyse or Alise I could see being mistaken for Alice and Aleese looks made-up so IMO looks ridiculous!

longcat07 · August 2014

another vote for elise.

britb618 · August 2014

Agree with the pps Elise looks best

MahriM23 · August 2014

Elise

mom2case · August 2014

Alise. It's my daughter's middle name actually. No one has thought it was an alternative spelling for Alice.

mandikins27 · August 2014

Alyse

kbl13 · August 2014

Personally, I would go with Elise.

I used to work with an Alice spelled Alyce and everyone mispronounced her name.

LadyXaverian · August 2014

Just re-iterating that the "E" spelling is the best.

elleswarth · August 2014

Elise. Alise looks like a misspelled named.

llbne · August 2014

Definitely Elise. I agree Alise looks like a misspelling and will be unfamiliar to most people so is far more likely to be mispronounced (I think I would pronounce it 'ah-lies' like the end of realise). Alyse is ugly to me, and I have no idea how to pronounce it.