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I say eeLAYN, perhaps closer to iLAYN. So does my cousin's Elaine friend, but my aunt always says EElayn.

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I associate it with my SIL, who is elegant, beautiful and lots of fun, and with my cousin's friend, who is plump and forgettable. Elayn looks like a spelling error, or a bad suggestion by a spellchecker; Alaine should, surely, be the fem form of Alain? So the A- sound would be different from the E-.

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I'd never use it IRL; I much prefer Helen, which I'd use at a moment's notice.