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[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

A friend from high school recently had a baby girl: Ainsleigh.

What an eyesore! It doesn't even sound pretty, it sounds like I'm congested when I say it. Out of all the names in the world...

Also, my new favorite name that I (re)discovered today: Maeve. Could also be spelled Mave (I prefer the former, though). It makes me instantly think of the love interest of some adventure love story set "back in the day."

Whatcha think?

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[rubberducky1467.livejournal.com]

I've got a young cousin called Ainsley. Still an eyesore!

I completely agree with you about Maeve. Love it!

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Ainsley/Ainsleigh doesn't sound appealing to my ears. I just hear the ayn sound, and think "anal"

I never know how to pronounce Maeve. MAYv?

[thesynergizer.livejournal.com]

I know one Ainsleigh, spelled exactly that way, and its a sweet litlte girl with Downs Syndrome, so I am having trouble hating the name because of association. I don't think AINS-lee sounds congested, though i admit the spelling is very um, fancy.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

It just doesn't seem like a real name to me, like someone was desperately trying to make up a cute name, :-/

Do you think because it almost sounds like "maiden?" haha

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

Haha!! I didn't even think of that, but you're right! Anal.... Just another reason to dislike the name.

Yes, that's how I pronounce it and that's also how I saw it pronounced.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

That's understandable. There are some names I like just because of the association, even though I don't really like it.

It's just the AIN sound that bothers me, it does t feel nice to say. I think names ending with -sley are cute, but not this.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I don't mind Ainsley... spelled right. It's not a favorite or anything, though.

All I see is sleigh in Ainsleigh. I just think of Santa and his sleigh. And it makes me want to pronounce it like Anz-slay not Anz-lee.

I freaking love Maeve. I prefer Maeve. Mae is a cute nn for it.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

I didn't see sleigh until you pointed it out. Gosh, this name gets worse and worse!

Mae is on my list, too :)

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I grew up with a girl down the street from me whose name was Ainsley--she's at least in her mid-20's now. Maybe because of that, I've adjusted to the name and it never bothered me that much. The spelling above, however, is obnoxious. Obnoxious.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I don't like Ainsleigh/Ainsley either.

I do love Maeve though.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

I actually really love it when it's spelled Ainsley. It's very traditional and pretty.

My cousin-in-law has a baby named Maeve, one of my favorites :)

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

maybe daddy missed

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

i think Mave might get confused for Mauve. So my vote is for Maeve.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

I don't mind Ainsley, but I can't look at Ainsleigh without seeing sleigh. Like it should be pronounced Ain-slay.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

ha!!

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think the fact that I saw "Ainsleigh" before I ever saw "Ainsley," combined with the trendy names that sound similar these days, is probably the reason I don't like it. I bet if I heard "Ainsley" before all of this, I would like it.

Yes, super obnoxious! And don't these people ever think of how this person is going to have to grow older with this name?!

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

Maeve is lovely! Ainsleigh however... I do not like. The spelling and the pronunciation just don't flow to me.

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

I've never liked Maeve, probably because I've never known anybody with that name and each time I see it in print my mind thinks, "Mauve? No, the other one." I just don't like how it feels on the tongue.

[ahavah]

The spelling is obnoxious, but I don't mind Ainsley. To be honest though, I've come to hate Maeve. Maeve and Sakura have become way too common Mary Sue names in the RPG world (or at least the circles I'm familiar with), so I can't help but roll eyes whenever I see either of those two names. Sorry. :(

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

RPG?

[ahavah]

Sorry! Role playing games.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

I can see the Mauve thing. I think it's because I saw it spelled "Mave" first that I don't see the Mauve when I look at it.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

I know a really amazing woman named Ainsley, so I kind of dig the name. I wouldn't use it myself though.

[autopsycorpses.livejournal.com]

I really like Ainsley/Ainsleigh, and it was in my top 10 for girls names. It's a traditional Celtic name, and I think it is beautiful... conversely, I find Mauve to be an old woman's name (and a hidous color, by the way), and think Maeve looks like a typo.

My tastes are so backward from what is trending right now....*sigh* it makes me feel like I am being contrary all the time.... :-(

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

oooh, okay, that makes more sense now.

[earn-my-wings.livejournal.com]

I usually like Celtic names (almost all of them that I come across, actually), but I think that if I had seen "Ainsley" before "Ainsleigh" I may have liked it a little bit more. I just don't like the way it rolls off the tongue.

Backwards taste is probably a good thing, though :)