Anneli

As much as I love Anne and Anna, I'm not terribly in love with Anneli. It's nice, slightly frilly and rather charming, but I'm not a huge fan of the name Li/Lee/Leigh, as I think it's quite transparent and lacks personality, and so I think Anne on its own is a lot more solid despite being shorter and perhaps more plain. But I like Anneli as a nickname for something more elaborate like Anneliese. I believe it was fairly common as a middle name in Scandinavian countries at the end of the last century (though I'm not actually Scandinavian myself so I could have that wrong, I've just noticed a lot of women born in like 70's-80's, especially from Finland having Anneli as their middle name) and I think it's a nice middle name choice. But it feels rather underwhelming as a first name, and I guess in countries where it originates from it's not very fresh as a first name at the moment and has a rather dated feel (all the women with the first name Anneli that I've heard of were in their 50's or thereabouts, all from Sweden). But if for some reason I was to use Anneli as first name for a child, I think I'd call her Neli/Nellie most of the time rather than Annie or some other Anne-derived nickname.
I think if someone likes names like Annalee, Annaleigh, Annalie or whatever other spellings are out there but doesn't want to use such a name solely because it reminds them of the word "anal" or "anally", then Anneli makes most sense out of all the spellings because its original, Scandinavian pronunciation (AHN-neh-lee) at least in my opinion, sounds less close to these words, and also looks less suggestive of it than say Analie.

Sounds quite pretty and I like this spelling.

For me it sounds very Italian with the 'i' at the end.

I suppose that "Anneli" is (despite its frilly nature) moderately endearing, but all positivity from my end ceases there.

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Just as a reminder, the forename-middlename combination of "Anna" and "Lee" is rather common-- and this name meshes them into a single. When I consider that, it makes the distaste that I have for it grow.

Anneli has a nice sound. Unfortunately, it reminds me of 'anally.'

One of my middle names is Anali which is the Swiss/French version of this name. It is very uncommon and I like it as a middle name. It compliments my other middle name (Marie) nicely I think, and takes away from the over-use of the name Marie.