Ailsa

It's pretty and sweet. For some odd reason, it reminds me of a nameless wildflower blooming under a cloudy sky.

What if you remove the last "a"? You get "ails".

My husband and I have a rainbow baby that we named Ailsa Maeve. She just turned a year. We loved the name for so many reasons! After some research we found the ‘supernatural victory’ meaning to be fitting. And we have Ailsa on her birth certificate but we also call her Ailsabeit, or Bett, after her great grandmother who was a ‘Bett’. She fits the name perfectly!

I’m an AILSA to. I get different variations on a theme as to how people spell my name to. Alisa, Aylsa, Ailssa, Elsa to name but a few. I get asked is that ELSA as in the lion from born free or more recently the princess in Frozen. I must admit I've grown to like it being spelt ELSA now. I think that’s because I’ve gotten used to it being written like that because no one can ever spell it right in the first place. Pronounced AILSA sounds like I’ve done something wrong- my Sunday name.

To me, it looks like a Scottish form of Alice or Alicia.

I love names that relate to rocks, as I am a geologist:) My son is named Peter. I think this name is very pretty. It looks very similar to Alisa, and for me it takes a second glance to tell them apart, since the only difference is the reversed position of the "l" and "i". Either way, Ailsa and Alisa are both very beautiful names!

The meaning of the name of the island Ailsa Craig is "Fairy Rock".
I grew up holidaying on the West Coast of Scotland and seeing Ailsa Craig every summer morning and decided then to name my daughter if I had one Ailsa... and Ailsa has just walked in as I type this... hehehe.

It also means "cheerful" or "girl of cheer"
At least that's why I was named it.

Wow, this is such a pretty name.

Yes, but given that the island is named after Alfsigr, which means 'elf victory', it follows that fairies could tie in there somewhere. ;0) I think Ailsa is a pretty, soft sounding name.

I think it is beautiful.