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I know an Eila prn like Isla. I like that name. I like it more than I like Isla.
People do often mispronounce it at first. It takes one correction per person - like with many names - and then people know.
I think Claire is a great middle name for almost all names and it's fine with Eila or Isla.
I don't think shared letters matter in most cases, and not in this one either.

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I recognize Eris as a fem name like Dracotorix does. I've never seen it used for either sex, though - so I guess I'd adapt to it as a guy's name. I kinda prefer a different spelling though, Aeris or Erris maybe. Thorn is a cool middle name esp. if it's after someone. It could sound better than it does with any first name ending with S. But that's not a big enough issue that you would change the name if you really like it.

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I guess both Eila and Eris are the kind of name that are minority usages in the US ...
https://www.behindthename.com/top/beyond?name=eris+eila&gender=&type=sample
(if you don't have an account you can't see that link - Eila and Eris (F) have been rising slightly since around 2000 and were used about 130 times each in 2022; Eris (M) has barely risen and was used for 18 boys in '22; all of them have very very light usage (generally less than 10/year) going back to the 1910s. There's a spike in usage of Eris (F) in 1923 - 230 girls - but it's very brief.)
... which means a majority of people who you ask for opinions, will not really like them a lot. There's no reason to not use them, if you like them a whole lot. But if you are looking for names that lots of other people claim to like, you'll want to keep looking.

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- mirfak

This message was edited 8/9/2023, 11:15 PM