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Eileen is very pretty, but I prefer this spelling.

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-- Sarah

This is what I posted when the same name was asked about yesterday:
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=570648&board=baby

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~Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix

Well, it's okay. I don't know anyone named this, personally, but I have heard of it. As bear said, I like the spelling Ailinn. I think it's okay either way.

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I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

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I don't know anyone personally named Ailyn, but there certainly have been Hispanic girls born in the USA named Ailin and Ailyn the last few years.

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Ailin, Ailinn, and Ailyn are simply ways to spell Eileen that represent the normal English pronunciation of the name (eye-leen) to speakers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Well, I adore the name Eileen.

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I looked up Ailyn in my baby name book, From Aaron to Zoe. A lot of these books are very suspect on etymology, but this one is pretty good. It doesn't list Ailyn, but it does list Ailinn as a Portuguese variant of Helen (as is Eileen). I must say the Ailinn spelling looks much better to my eyes than Ailyn.

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Do you know anyone who spells it Ailyn? It *looks* creative.

I really like that spelling a lot better than the original one.
I haven't seen many Portuguese names that I was this fond of.
The combo I came up w/ and just adore is -
Ailyn Rose