First - I REALLY like both of your names.... well Charli is my daughters name, but I really love Cruz!

My daughters name is Charlize, but if I spell her shorter name Charlie, a lot of people think it is a boy. When I was playing around with Charlea a lot people thought it was Char-lee-a. After much thought I picked Charlize and just take off the ze for her nickname. This sounds silly but I didn't want her to have to spell her name or have people mis pronounce it so I made it as easy as possible.

All your different spellings or Cruz are really good! I think I would spell it Cruze, just for simplicity but then something different is always nice!

p.s. Funny story - I was spelling DD2's name over the phone one to the health insurance and said 'it's Elisabeth with an S'..... When I got the paper work she had put Elifabeth.

Who would name their daughter Elifabeth?

good luck with choosing! xx