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I really don’t care for it.
Not so much because of the spelling, more so just because I don’t like the sounds of it, and it mostly reminds me of Alice in Wonderland...I’ve never actually met anyone with the name, so I have no personal associations with it.

I don't see names that are spelled differently but are pronounced identically to be really different, and I've never cared for Alice, so....

I love love love Alys, though I don't plan to use it because I know I'd always have to correct the spelling... sounds annoying. But I think it's just lovely and I do prefer it over Alice.

I much prefer Alice because I like the frilly, femme aspect, but Alys is very nice. Out in the real world people are more likely to applaud what they think is a creative spelling than they are on here. And if you run into somebody who doesn’t, all you have to do is explain that it’s the legitimate Welsh version.

I had a colleague once whose name was Alys. She was very bright, very civilised, Welsh and a mathematician!

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I love the look of Alice as well as the sound and the Wonderland connection, so I wouldn't use it, but it's been around for a good few centuries so why not educate the public?

I hate Alice and dislike Alison / Allison. Alys seems fine, though? Huh.

I don't like Alice, but I do like Alys a lot.
The not-liking-Alice makes Alys unusable for me as a first name - because people would hear it and picture Alice, and that'd bother me.
People might see it as a creative spelling, and for me, it would be. But I don't care, it's not *that* creative even so. No more creative than Alyson or Madelyn. And less so because hey, you can look it up and see it's an "official" form.
It's as teachable as any alternate spelling. People have to teach each other how to spell their names all the time - Elisabeth with an S, Catherine with a C, Maya vs Maia ... it's really no biggie.

This message was edited 3/1/2020, 8:57 PM