Eleri

I love, love, love the name Eleri! It sounds so melodic and elfin. I like Ellery, but Eleri both looks and sounds so much better. I also like a similar Welsh name Meleri. I am a Welsh language learner and huge enthusiast and sometimes I feel that perhaps if I ever ended up having children, after all, I could name a girl Eleri, as a tribute to Welsh language and because Eleri would be a very easy to pronounce Welsh name here in Poland, unlike in the Anglophone countries other than Wales. But it would still be a very bold choice and I'm not sure if I'd have enough courage. I would not use it and would not recommend to anyone using it in an Anglophone country that is not Wales, because I'd be worried that it would be considered just a creative spelling of Ellery and pronounced as such. Also, even in Wales I don't think it's a fresh choice. I've heard that it's very much a 60's 70's name there so perhaps it would be like naming an American baby Sharon or Linda or something? My main association with the name Eleri will forever be Eleri Siôn from BBC Radio Wales and her accent, as well as a Welsh song by Betsan Hâf Evans called Eleri.

Quite pretty. I prefer this to Ellery.

Nice name, but the pronunciation ehl-AIR-ee doesn't come naturally to me...

People are going to pronounce this like ellery. Then your child will have to hear celery jokes for all eternity.

Gorgeous name!