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Tethys! I love that it means "grandmother."

Thetis easily. :)

Thetis is pronounced THAY-tis, right? Well, even if it were THEE-tis, I'd still prefer that to Tethys, which sounds​like I'm tethering something.

Thetis - this spelling looks more harmonious to me, also applies to the "other Greek" Themis. (T-E-H-tis)

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Personally, however, I like the Norwegian Thordis the very best, the female form of Thor. Another variant is Tardis resp. Tordis.

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Furthermore, I still know our German Jordis or Jördis, the original Hjördis from Iceland and/or Sweden.

Thetis.

Thetis, I don'tlike the shape of Tethys for some reason. But I don't particularly like how either sounds, and it reminds me of what a complete mama's boy Achilles was.

Tethys

Hi !!!

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In Italian is Teti (TEH-tee).

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But despite mythology it is unattractive to me..

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Thetis is better than the variants you said. It is easier.

I'd choose Tethys. It's somewhere on one of my 'I quite like this' lists, and I really like the ending and sound. Thetis doesn't flow as naturally for me.

Thetis. I find Tethys too oceanic - the only sea name I like at all is Marina, and even then I prefer Marinus for a boy. And, though Thetis was a sea-nymph of note, she didn't give her name to an entire primeval ocean.

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There's a suggestion in Wikipedia that they might originally have been the same name ...

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"Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece. The pre-modern etymology of her name, from tithemi (τίθημι), "to set up, establish," suggests a perception among Classical Greeks of an early political role. Walter Burkert[3] considers her name a transformed doublet of Tethys".

Thetis, because it looks less like a disease.

Probably Tethys.

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I assumed Thetis was pronounced "THEE-tis" but I looked it up and apparently it's "theh-tis". Rhymes with lettuce. So I'm not really feeling it right now.

Tethys!

I would go with Thetis, I guess. I fee like people would mispronounce Tethys as TEH-thiss which sounds way too much like tetanus.

Thetis, if I'm pronouncing it right.