Girls Name

rlbpgc

We just found out we are expecting a girl in May and very excited and now we are trying to figure out a name.  We have have a 2yr old DD, named Ava Lilliana (last name sounds like Kipenelli, but longer and more complicated (12 letters)).  We have tried to pick short names to go with the long complicated last name and this time around I want to incorporate the names of both my grandmas (Elaine and Anne) and my mom (Laurie).  I played around with it and took the first 2 letters of each name and came up with Elan, which would be pronouced similar to Elin. (Yes I know it's Tiger Wood's ex-wifes name, but not why we are choosing that name:) )   My husband and I both prefer the spelling of Elin, but I feel like I am leaving my one grandma (Anne) out if I change the spelling.   Anyways, I guess my question is, do you think if we use the spelling Elan, people will pronounce it like Elin or make the "lan" sound more like "ann" where the "ann" is very pronounced? I hope this makes sense. FYI, middle name is Joelle.

 

 

BlueRidge8

That's a lot of names to try to incorporate into one (short) name and Elan would be pronounced totally differently than Elin.

Maybe two middle names?

lauralew

I would imagine it will be mispronounced as Ellen more often than not.  (Isn't Elin Ee-lin?)  I think Elaine, Anne, and Laurie are all good names...maybe just choose two to honor.  Laurie Anne, Laurie Elaine, Elaine Anne...

blueyedsweety28

Lauren
Lorraine
Laranya
Lorena
Lorna ..

526SadieSadie

Elan, IMO is a boy's name. Elin is a girl's name.

How about Elanna (prn Eh-lohn-uh)?

karen3337

This isn't what you asked but I love Laurianne Elaine! Joelle is a really nice MN too though.  I agree with PP that Elan would likely be pronounced Ellen most of the time.  And you've really condensed the names down so much that I don't see a difference between using Elan and using Sue in terms of honoring those three people.  Y'know? 

apc1929

Sorry but I think Elan would be pronounced totally different..  I like Elin very much- are you totally attached to Joelle for mn?  Elin Anne I think would be very pretty

rlbpgc

Yes Elin is pronounced Ee-lin.  I guess I was thinking Elan could be pronounced that way since when you think of a name like Allen or Alan, they both have the same ending sound of  "in". 

I honestly don't care for the individual names, even though they are my family:)  Just not my style.  As for combining them to make them longer, I could justify doing that if our last name wasn't so crazy. 

PeridotEyes

Elan makes me think "Ellen" or

Noun

1.

elan - a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal"

 

 There are a lot of similar letters to Elaine, Anne & Laurie. If you did find a name that shared them, it wouldn't matter how it came to be; you could leave it simply as "we combined the names of these people"

You have: 

4x E, 3x A, 3x N, 2x L, 2x I, 1x R, 1x U (yes, I'm that OCD about this )
If you just concentrate on using any letters from those names you can use Elin or Lainie, Nia, Rielle, Rilee, Lena, Leanne, etc.

 

 

rubber_chicken

Elan looks way too much like Flan for me. 

 

What about Eleanor Laurie? 

femmepink

I pronounced it like it's spelled, "E-lan", not "E-lynn" like Elin is pronouced.

blu-eyedwife

femmepink:

I pronounced it like it's spelled, "E-lan", not "E-lynn" like Elin is pronouced.

Same here

rlbpgc

Thank you girls for your thoughts.   My husband and I agreed with you all in that we are taking so many names and trying to make it work.  We love the sound of the name E-lin and femmepink, I owe you one because we changed the spelling to Elyn and we love it!  and actually lynn was my middle name.  So the name started to honor my mom and grandmas and now it's all about me:)

So our daughter will be Elyn Joelle