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Even though this is not my real name, I have deep and abiding love for it. :) But I'm not positive that I'll ever actually use it. I have a long list of criteria for the names of my future children. I love a lot of names, but I only have a few die-hard favorites that I'd be likely to actually bestow on a child, and Isla is one I go back and forth on. I grew up with a very popular name, but that also meant 1) not having to spell it for people, and 2) not having to pronounce it for people, even though it also meant I was Heather S. for years and I still am now (at work, there are three Heathers :-/). I worry about people mispronouncing and misspelling Isla. Plus, I live in FL, so there's a bigger Spanish speaking community than elsewhere, and the world "isla" is pronounced EEZ-lah in Spanish. Not that that's a horribly sounding thing, but it's not Isla = EYE-lah. :b I don't really want my child to be annoyed at people constantly getting her name wrong. That and I'm actually a chicken and don't want to 'rock the boat' too much for the most part. I've mentioned to a few people in my life that I like it, and 90% of the time I've gotten odd looks. :-/

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With all that being said, if you can deal with the possibility of mispronunciation and misspelling--and once they get to know her, it won't really be an issue, but it still may be a daily thing, unfortunately--and you love the name, I say it's do-able. I may actually "do" it myself someday. :b

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After all that rambling, I actually do have some of my favorite combos for you: (I think I'm repeating OP's)
Isla Camille
Isla Maeve
Isla Beatrice
Isla Jessamine
Isla Pearl
Isla Rosalie (too L heavy?)

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~Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix