Ailee
Ailey
[name_f]Aili[/name_f]
Ailie
[name_f]Aley[/name_f]
[name_f]Aly[/name_f]
?
It supposed to rhyme with [name_f]Hailey[/name_f] x
i’m not sure if this is meant to be pronounce al-lee, pronounced alley.
or ay-lee, rhymes with bailey.
if you are looking for “alley”, i’d recommend:
[name_f]Aly[/name_f]
[name_u]Ali[/name_u]
[name_f]Ally[/name_f]
[name_u]Allie[/name_u]
Alley
if you were look for rhymes with bailey, i’d recommend:
Aylie
Ailie
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Ailee works imo! I also like PP’s suggestion of Aylie. Have you thought of [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f]?
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Aylie seems more natural.
It’s also very similar to [name_f]Ellie[/name_f].
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i have and it’s lovely but seem to look like DD will have to spell her name out all the time?..
I like Aylie best.
I’d go for Aylie, Aylee, Ailie or Aelie.
Tbh she will have to spell her name out anyway as Aylie/Aylee will not be intuitive to everyone. But that’s ok. Most people have to spell their name. I think [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f] is a beautiful option. 
Ailee is pretty! I pronounced it correctly right away.
I second the suggestions of Aylie & [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f]!
Ailee or Ailey.
Aylie/Aylee seems most intuitive to me, but no matter what, she will have to spell her name out most of the time.
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Ailee or Aylee
I adore [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f]. I think it is risky because people won’t know how to spell or say it but I know a girl named Ceilidh ([name_f]Kaylee[/name_f]) who loves her name and how it’s spelled. I also agree that spelling issues (and possible pronunciation issues) will be present with any of these though.
For ay-lee, I’d go with
Ailey (I knew a girl with this name)
Aylee
Aylie
I also love [name_f]Aili[/name_f] but there is a Finnish name with that spelling pronounced “eye-lee”. [name_f]Aly[/name_f] or [name_f]Aley[/name_f] look like variations of [name_u]Allie[/name_u], and I’d also worry that Ailie would be confused for [name_u]Allie[/name_u].
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When I see Ailee (and a few of these other spelling options you provided) my brain immediately reads it like eye-lee, and some of the others read like alley.
I like the suggestion of Aylie. Much more intuitive to get the pronunciation you want and reasonably looks like a variation of [name_f]Ayla[/name_f], so it feels less made-up than some of the other spellings shown here.
I also like traditional [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f], though unlike Aylie it won’t be very intuitive to people not familiar with Irish names.
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[name_f]Eilidh[/name_f] is my favourite suggestion so far. If you wanted something more anglicised, then I’d say Ailey. It’s spelled the same as [name_u]Bailey[/name_u], [name_f]Hailey[/name_f] and [name_f]Kailey[/name_f] so it seems the most intuitive.
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I’m so pleased you liked my suggestion of [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f]/Aylee so much! Aylee was used in the television show [name_u]Reign[/name_u], so if you pick anything other than [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f], I think that might be the most intuitive?
I have a friend named [name_f]Aili[/name_f] but it’s said like EYE-lee. So as classic as it looks, I’m not sure I’d use that one. I think Ailey or Aylee is what I’d opt for if not [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f] itself, but I’d put up with the hassle of [name_f]Eilidh[/name_f] because I love it SO much. 
Good luck!
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I would pronounce Ailee as EYE-lee, basically like [name_f]Aileen[/name_f]/[name_f]Eileen[/name_f] without the n. From your list, I would also pronounce [name_f]Aili[/name_f] and Ailie as EYE-lee, and I’d pronounce [name_f]Aly[/name_f] as alley.
If you want the pronunciation of [name_f]Hailey[/name_f] without the h, I would go with Ailey (like [name_m]Alvin[/name_m] Ailey) or Aylie or Aylee, but those may occasionally be mispronounced as EYE-lee as well.
I pronounce it Eye-[name_u]Lee[/name_u] because the people I know with the name are Finnish, but I think Ailey would work, Ayley if you really wanted to make sure 
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Ailee and Ailey seem most natural.
I know an Ailie, but she does get the eye-lee pronunciation from time to time, so I’d probably go with Aylee.