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Posts that mention the name Madeleine

Baby name needed: Name that goes with Felicity

A reader is having a baby girl and looking for “a pretty first name.” Bonus points if it starts with an S. She says:

Our last name is a hard German name that starts with a K and rhymes with Dicer. I was thinking of honoring my mother who is Phyllis by making a middle name of Felicity.

Here are a few ideas:

S-NamesOther Names
Sarah
Serena
Selah
Simone
Sonia
Sophia
Sophronia
Stephanie
Susannah
Sybil
Sylvia		Amelia
Callista
Celeste
Elise
Gabrielle
Josephine
Laura
Leah
Lillian
Linnea
Madeleine

Which of the above do you like best? What other names would you suggest?

Baby name needed: Traditional name for baby girl

A reader named Liz is expecting a baby girl and she’d like some help coming up with a name. Here are some details:

  • Liz likes “traditional names that are not the type of name the person wearing it will be teased for,” such as Amalia, Charlotte, Sofia and Louisa/Louise.
  • Liz’s husband like “names that sound cute for a little kid but good for an adult,” such as Grace, Beatrice and Nathalie. (Liz doesn’t care for Beatrice/Beatrix, though.)

So far, Louise/Louisa is the only name both Liz and her husband can agree on.

Here are some other names that I thought might work:

Adele
Alice
Althea
Caroline
Celia
Claire
Clarice
Coralie
Emmeline		Genevieve
Felice
Gillian
Greta
Helena
Irene
Isabelle
Johanna
Josephine		Lavinia
Leona
Lucy
Lydia
Madeleine
Margaret
Mary
Naomi
Nicole		Pauline
Patrice
Philippa
Rosalie
Sabina
Susannah
Sylvia
Thea
Theresa

No name is immune to teasing, but I did bump Harriet, which is dangerously close to “hairy.”

What other names would you suggest to Liz?

Baby name needed: Boy or girl name for Linden & Everett’s sibling

Britta her husband Morgan live in Sweden. They’re expecting their third baby in a couple of months and would like some help choosing a name.

They already have two sons, Linden and Everett, so they’d like the baby’s first name to be similar in style to these. Britta also mentions:

We definitely want a more English/American first name while the middle name should be more Scandinavian. The name should also be pronounced similarly both in Swedish and in English.

The baby’s surname will sound like Bergstrand.

So far, for boy names, they’re considering Amos. Here are some other names I thought they might like:

Carl/Karl
Casper/Kasper
Conrad/Konrad
Felix
Frank
Gabriel
Glenn
Grant
Grover		Harris
Henry
Herman
Linus
Nelson
Nolan
Norris
Oliver
Oscar/Oskar		Otis
Philip
Reuben/Ruben
Roland
Sidney
Simon
Tobias
Victor/Viktor
Vincent

For girl names, Morgan likes Rowyn and Rowena. Britta doesn’t care for names that end with a vowel-sound, though. So how about:

Agnes
Alice
Beatrice
Charlotte
Clara/Klara
Edith
Florence/Flora
Frida
Greta		Harriet
Henrietta
Josephine
Madeleine
Marion
Nora
Pauline
Petra
Ramona		Rosa
Roselle
Sabine
Selma
Susanne
Sylvia
Therese
Ursula
Viola

(It was hard to avoid vowel endings altogether, but I did try!)

As for middles: Linden’s middle name is Anders, and Everett’s middle name is André, so my first instinct was to suggest they continue the pattern with something like Andrea or Andreas.

Other than that, I have a hard time coming up with middles when there’s no first name in place. I personally like Astrid, Gustav, Inger, Johan, Olga, Sören…but how well these work will depend a lot upon the sound/rhythm of the first name.

Do you like any of the above names with Linden and Everett? What others would you suggest to Britta and her husband?

Update – The baby is here! Scroll down to see what name Britta and Morgan chose.

Baby name needed: Middle name for Amelia

A reader named Heather writes:

I’m looking for a middle name for my baby to be. Her first name will be Amelia. Her last name will start with a S.

Let’s see…first thing I’d do is determine which names to avoid. I wouldn’t want a name that might blend with either Amelia or the surname, so I’d take names that start with a vowel or end with an s-sound off the table.

Other than that, it’s all a matter of taste. :) Here are some combinations that caught my fancy:

  • Amelia Celine
  • Amelia Claire
  • Amelia Danielle
  • Amelia Helen
  • Amelia Henrietta
  • Amelia Joan
  • Amelia Jillian
  • Amelia Madeleine
  • Amelia Maria
  • Amelia Pearl
  • Amelia Simone
  • Amelia Theodora
  • Amelia Violet

What other middles would you guys suggest to Heather?

Update: The baby is here! Scroll down to find out what middle name Heather chose.