I can’t decide! Which do you prefer and why? There’s always the option of [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] NN [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] - but I can’t convince myself. Help!
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f]!
I have a very good friend named [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] and she is wonderful. I also find [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] to be taking an already sweet yet elegant, feminine and balanced name into more dramatic territory. I guess the extra syllable just makes it a mouthful on a name that already has a unique shape in sound to it.
[name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] might also be more apt to mispronunciation: [name_f]El[/name_f]-[name_m]OY[/name_m]-sa, rather than [name_f]El[/name_f]-o-EE-sa? Or maybe not, I don’t know.
[name_f]Ela[/name_f], [name_f]El[/name_f] or Elo are good nicknames for either one, but yeah have to agree that [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] as a nn for [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] doesn’t make the cut.
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f]! I’ll cosign the thoughts of aym.
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f] is perfect just as she is; I feel that [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] is complicating and “over-doing” an already beautiful and luscious name.
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f]! [name_f]Love[/name_f] it
My daughter’s middle is [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] so it defiantly gets my vote
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f]! I second everything aym said - [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] seems as though the extra a is unecessarily fussy, and while they’re both lovely names, [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] is more recognizable and will have fewer, if any, pronunciation/spelling issues.
My name is [name_f]Eloise[/name_f]! I prefer [name_f]Eloise[/name_f], [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] sounds too extravagant and fusty to me.
BTW, you might actually run into some more pronunciation/spelling issues than you think. Most of the ones I’ve had were with people of races and cultures that are not familiar with non-phonetically spelled names with quite precise pronunciations like mine (which is mostly just weird spellings at Starbucks eg. Alloweez, Elloueez and I think once I got Alvish) and with very young children (the one that comes to memory is when I was in kindergarten I played with a group of children who called me [name_f]Louise[/name_f]. I tried to correct them for a few months, eventually I gave up and just let them get my name wrong. They continued to call me [name_f]Louise[/name_f] until the year ended.)
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f] gets my vote. I prefer [name_f]Louise[/name_f] and [name_f]Louisa[/name_f], but [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] is the sweetest choice between [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] and [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f].
I prefer the sound of [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f]. Probably a cultural thing. I’ve never liked [name_f]Eloise[/name_f], I find it rather frumpy.
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f] - every time!
Definitely [name_f]Eloise[/name_f]. [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] feels like a superfluously frilly afterthought. I can dig [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] though.
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f] but [name_f]Louisa[/name_f].
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f] is soft, flowy, and just touch exotic while familiar - it’s easy and sophisticated.
[name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] feels heavier and stickier, sort of like chewy caramel stuck to your teeth. It feels a bit more comely than [name_f]Eloise[/name_f].
Oddly I prefer [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] over [name_f]Louise[/name_f] - mostly because it’s stronger and feels more feminine to me.
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f] or [name_f]Louisa[/name_f], which are both gorgeous, charming names.
[name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] is overkill.
I prefer [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f]. It seems more perky and musical and unique without being weird.
but [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] is over the top (I think).
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f]. Sometimes less is more.
I prefer [name_f]Eloise[/name_f].
[name_f]Eloise[/name_f]. It has a nice ring to it.
[name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] is the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese version of [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] … so it is like comparing [name_f]Adele[/name_f] and [name_f]Adela[/name_f], [name_f]Natalie[/name_f] and [name_f]Natalia[/name_f], [name_f]Estelle[/name_f] and [name_f]Estela[/name_f], etc. Many of these Spanish/Italian names have been embraced by families with a different heritage or have a long history of being used by English-speaking communities: [name_f]Helena[/name_f], [name_f]Adriana[/name_f], [name_f]Lucia[/name_f], etc. [name_f]Eloisa[/name_f] is rarer than [name_f]Eloise[/name_f] and I wonder how much it is used by non-Spanish/Italian/Portuguese families.