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I really love the name Annelise! I’d pick this spelling out of them all. It’s a very pretty name. I love the combination Annelise Marie.

I'm neutral on it. It just feels empty to me. I prefer the Dutch spelling, Anneliese, which I like.

I quite like Annelise. I prefer it to the other versions, though none are bad.

Not much. It reminds me of analysis, and Anne Frank (the latter obviously not a bad association so much as a sad one. And the former neutral, but wordy). Anneliese > Annalise > Annelise > Annaliese.

I love it. My favorite is probably Anneliese. It feels like Anastasia's equally pretty but less pompous sister. *though I do love a good pompous name, there is a time and place for them I think. Anneliese could fit in with a lot more settings than Anastasia imo.

I secretly prefer the spelling Annelise to Anneliese - and outwardly prefer both to Annalise - but of the three, Annelise is (somehow) the least familiar spelling in Anglophone cultures. Not sure how, as it makes more sense (in English) than Anneliese, but there you go.

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I don't know why I like Annelise and Annamarie (despite not usually liking "combination" names at all), but... there you go.

I like it and spelt Annalise

I've always liked Anneliese, it combines two pretty but common names and makes them extra special :)

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Anneliese > Annelise > Annaliese > Annalise

My GP, an older woman, spells her name Anneliese and pronounces the final -e.

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Afrikaans South Africans often use merged names, for instance if they want to name a child after both grandmothers. I knew a woman named Maria Elisabeth Helena who was always called Marelna; when she had a daughter, she named the baby Marelna, with no mn. I think the fashion is fading, but we don't keep naming statistics so it's hard to tell.

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ETA the -s- in Anneliese is always pronounced s, not z.

This message was edited 9/29/2022, 4:12 AM