WDYT

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

WDYT

I used a tool thing where it suggested names... i forgot what it's called...but here were there suggestions:
I asked for classy female names

Willa Anais (HOW do you pronounce anais?)
Eva Adeline
Ivy Charlotte
Violet Claire
Carolina Grace

Comments

[the-final-song.livejournal.com]

I like them,
Violet Grace would be cute as well.

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

AN-ISS
or
ANEESE

I think?

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

aww that would even be a cute double name.

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

i sat there trying to sound it out and i got nothin.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty certain it is pronounced like: Ah-nigh-iss?

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

What beautiful names! I like all of them. :)

[politicking.livejournal.com]

lol this might be easier to sound out: Uh-nye-iss.

it's late, for the life of me i could NOT think of how to type out the nye/nigh sound LOL

[politicking.livejournal.com]

don't mind all the comments. i just found this:

"ANAIS: Origin unknown, possibly a variatio of Ann. However you pronounce this name ("AH-na-ees," Ah-NAY-iss"), it's a beauty. And a lovely perfume as well. Namesake: Anais Nin."

"ANAÏS. An unusual, creative name that means "graceful" in Hebrew. It is largely associated with the colorful Paris-born American novelist and diarist Anaïs Nin, so choosing this name for your child will definitely brand you as a Nin devotee."

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I think, in English, Anais would be pronounced the way it's mentioned above, but in French, it'd be 'Ah-nah-ee' =)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

nope, it's got a dieresis on the 'i', so it's Uh-nuh-eess :)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I live Ivy Charlotte as a combo!

[awfulmess.livejournal.com]

I've always pronounced Anais as I would the French port Calais (http://www.answers.com/topic/calais?cat=travel).

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

i've always pronounced anais as ah-nye-ees. i know a girl with that name.
but i don't care for it. willa is lovely, but the a at the end doesn't flow well with the a in anais. willa charlotte or willa violet is much nicer.
eva is okay, adeline is adorable, and it has the same flow problem with the double A's.
ivy charlotte is gorgeous.
carolina grace is a little more plain. probably because of the grace part.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the dieresis was of any influence on the pronunciation...good to know! ;) I actually like it better pronounced that way =)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I've never been too fond of Willa, but I think the rest of them are great!

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

When I see Anais, I think of that Jewel song: "you can be Henry Miller and I'll be Anais Nin....except this time we'll stay together in the end..."

She says "Uh-nye-us" :)

I like Violet Claire. It is very classy.

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

thank you.

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

thank you for researching it :]

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

i love it it's so classy :]

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

wow so many ways to say the name

[geeki.livejournal.com]

I like:

Ivy Charlotte
Violet Claire

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

the name Anais comes up every now and then in this community, and I'm always amazed at how many people ask about the pronunciation.

Has no one heard of Anais Nin?

[asscollection.livejournal.com]

I knew a girl named Anais and for the longest time I thought her name was Anna East and people just leaving off the T.

[asscollection.livejournal.com]

*were just