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If it was spelled Ayan maybe that would be pronounced SIMILARLY to Anne, but Ayn is just not pronounced like Anne and it would give your daughter a lifetime of headache if you decided to make people pronounce it that way.

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I taught a girl named Anya whose name was supposedly pronounced "AHN-yay" (with an accent on the second a because that somehow makes it better). The girl is surprised that others struggle so much to pronounce it as she wishes (or her mother wishes rather). I want to ask her mother, in what world does an "A" at the end of a word make the literal "A" sound? Anye would have been so much more logical. Reading is fundamental.

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Sorry, not trying to be mean. I'm just getting in my feelings.