Miley/Maile???

[shishenbelle.livejournal.com]

So randomly over the last few days i keep hearing the name Miley - i read it in a book, met a girl with the name, and of course there is Miley Cyrus -

I'm not planning on having kids anytime soon, so chances are by the time i have kids this will be in the "super insanely trendy" category - but regardless - how would you spell it? And what are your feelings on the name...

Spellings: Keep in mind i would prounounce it My-Leigh

Miley
Maile
Myleigh
Mylee

I figure cause of the proununciation i would go with Miley, but the girl i met spelled it Maile, which is pretty but to me would be said Mail (like post) lee

Comments

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I like the Hawaiian spelling Maile. Not really crazy about it any other way, to be honest. Miley seems like a nn for Miles. Myleigh and Mylee are just ugly tryndee names with no appeal fo rme.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Maile is the "official" spelling of it. As for Miley Cyrus, that's not her real name. It's actually something else that's escaping my mind right now, and it's a shortened version of her nickname "Smiley" from when she was a child, hence the different spelling.

As far as my personal preferences, when I see Maile, I would pronounce it just like you said, mail-ee. And visually, the others look terrible, so I'd have to go with Miley. I think it's a cute name, but not something I like enough to use on any future children.

[cocinadelfeto.livejournal.com]

Her real name is Destiny, I think. :/

[sarahjewel.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[sleepherealone.livejournal.com]

I'd pronounce Maile as may-lee.

If I used the name, I'm not sure what I'd use for the spelling. Myleigh is too close to the end of my own name, but it's the one I like the most.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

Ah, that sounds familiar. I think you're right.

[blush.livejournal.com]

It is. Totally embarassing to know that, but my babysitting girls LOVE that show.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

My sister loves it, that's why I know anything about her. LoL

[blush.livejournal.com]

I actually really like Miley, but only spelled like that. It seems to have a high likelyhood of people wanting to pronounce it Millie or May-lee and that would really bother me so I don't know if I could use it.

Xavier was ruined for me in the same way. Far too many Ex-avier pronouncers out there for me.

[blush.livejournal.com]

Does her voice bother you in any way? It drives me CRAZY! I swear she's got some sort of impediment but the girls try to tell me it's her accent. I'm not buying it.

[zorianna.livejournal.com]

To me, she sounds just like she's wearing a retainer. It's definitely not an accent thing, and definitely annoying. LoL

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

I like Mylee the best. It looks like the cleanest, easy-to-know-how-to-pronouce-it way to me.

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah i'd pronounce Maile as may-lee too.
What do you think of Myleen as a name? There's a singer here (UK) with this name.

[mayna.livejournal.com]

My daughter's name is Maylie (not mylee but close), and we haven't come across another one yet. A lot of people initially hear "Bailey" first though. I actually got her name from some name list but it was spelled Meili, which I think looked beautiful but no one would ever be able to spell it so I tried to spell it more phonetically without looking pretentious (I don't like Mayli or Maylee or Mayleigh)

[super-bitch06.livejournal.com]

I would probbly go with Mielie. Miley doesn't look good to me and even though I read Maile that way, I think it would cause a lot of pronunciaion problems. The last two are just way too much for me, sorry.

I really like the name, though. It's like a classier version of Kylee.

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Destiny Hope Cyrus. I was reading random stuff on wikipedia the other day lol.

[the-theorist.livejournal.com]

I had a good friend who was Hawaiian and she spelled her name Maile. Pronounced as you said.

[moekler.livejournal.com]

[thejoysofjess.livejournal.com]

I agree with the retainer issue. There's something just slightly lispy about her accent. Texans don't talk like that.

Her voice is also really deep for a little girl, which weirds me out.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Maile is the proper spelling. Anything else seems like a tryndee alternative. Miley LOOKS very childish, Maile looks more mature and like an actual name rather than a nick name.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Oh and also, I would refuse to "dumb down" the spelling for people who can't spell correctly. Maile is how the name is spelled, not Miley. It's not that difficult and I would hope that people would be able to catch on. I mean people are named Maia and Kaia, people can prn those correctly.

[unfshine.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! :) That is very well spoken. This is why I am naming my daughter MAILE! :)

[mountain-nest.livejournal.com]

Thank you! finally: the voice of reason!

[stars-are-fire.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

Growing up in Hawaii and knowing plenty of Maile's, I'd find it rather odd to see any other spelling variation.