: Re: How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer? In the point-of-view culture in my story, all of the women in priestly families have two-syllable names beginning with vowels.

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Most of your example names only use monophthongs. You can expand the different vowel sounds available if diphthongs are also allowed.

ai, ou, au, ei, ie, etc.

Other sounds are not diphthongs but are still different:

ee, oo (book), oo (zoo)

And in English a single vowel followed by a consonant-vowel pair (the vowel is often E) will usually make a diphthong too:

aXe, iXe, oWe, uXe

Note that depending on the exact combination, this might or might not work:

Alice /æləs/ - A (monoph.), i (reduced)
Eileen /eɪliːn/, /aɪliːn/ - Ei (diph.), ee (long)
Isabella /ɪsəbɛlə/ - I (monoph.), a (reduced), e (monoph.), a (reduced)
Odelia /oʊdiːliː(j)ə/ - O (diph.), e (long), i (long), a (reduced)
Uma /uːmə/ - U (long), a (reduced)

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