Which do you prefer? Do these names give the same vibe at all to you? They kind of do to me just because
Elise in English sounds so much like
Alice in French.
What about
Elisa? I like it pronounced "Eleesa", not so mch "Elaysa".
"We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
John LeCarré