Maybe she did try to Americanize the name. Who knows? My dd,
Brooke, had a friend named
Alessandra. Everyone had been calling her that for a couple of years since she transferred to their school until they all found out her real name was
Alejandra and that she used
Alessandra because she had ASSUMED that everyone couldn't pronounce it correctly. So then everyone had to learn to call her something else because she REALLY wanted to be called
Alejandra. Talk about confusing!
I especially like
Elysia but would worry that people would butcher it.