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I love Irene and Irina, and I like Eileen. Irene and its variants sound less dated than Eileen, at least to my ear.

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My favorite spelling of Eileen is actually Ilene...Eileen's sound with the streamlined prettiness of Irene.

I love Irene and like Eileen. I'm also fond of Irena, Irina, and Eirene.

I love Irene to bits. (Here we pronounce it EYE reen). Irena and Irina are attractive, if nms. I've never been all that keen on Eileen, not sure why.

I don't mind either name, but neither is on my list. Eileen (any spelling) seems a little younger than Irene, but the name will forever lead to "Come on Eileen" getting stuck in my head.

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Of all of the variants, I prefer Irina and Aline (but spelled Alene).

I adore Irene!!

I prefer Irene out of all of them. It is my sister's middle name and was my great grandmother's name. I just think it looks and sounds the best.

Irene - lovely, sophisticated, and underused
Irena - see, I'd pronounce *this* one eye-REE-na, and Irina as ee-REE-na, since Irina is Russian and every Irina I know says it that way. Interesting. ee-REH-na is very counterintuitive to me, and I prefer the aesthetics of Irina.
Irina - with the Russian pronunciation, adore it.
Eirene - love it, but would probably pronounce it eye-REE-nee.
Eileen - I think Eileen is a quietly misunderstood name. Very pretty.
Aileen - Wuornos
Aline - reminds me of saline. I prefer Alina.

I like regular ol' Irene (ie-REEN) and Eileen (ie-LEEN). They're in the background for me too. I don't dislike them, but they also don't do a lot for me.

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I would be surprised and please to hear about a little girl named either, but probably more into seeing a tiny Irene.