Help with little girl's name please :)

emilyk527 · January 2015

Addison or Adalyn? I love Adalyn, but is this an "old" name? I think it's pretty. Middle name is Caroline, as in "Sweeeet Caaaroline! Dun, Dun, Dun..." (A family name).

nublet · January 2015

I am not at all a fan of Addison. Adalyn is better but seems a little made up? What about Adeline?

emilyk527 · January 2015

I thought about that too but I don't like the rhyming of Adeline Caroline

I pulled it off of a baby top 100 names, but you're right, it's not super common (At least where I'm from). Thanks for the suggestion!

whatevs89 · January 2015

Not a fan of either and if you don't like Adeline how about Adelaide!

emilyk527 · January 2015

I appreciate the alternate suggestions but we are down to those two for sure

Artsywife07 · January 2015

If it's down to those two I'd pick Adalyn. I think Addison has been so overdone and Adalyn sounds much more feminine.

scubakate · January 2015

I considered Adalynn for a while, but most here seemed to side eye it because it is a made up spelling apparently. For us, we passed on it because of the NN Addie and our last name just sounded way to cutsie.

nurse714 · January 2015

emilyk527 said:

I appreciate the alternate suggestions but we are down to those two for sure

Well, no help can I give. They are both bad. Boy name for one and horrible spelling for the other.

Caroline for the first name is my suggestion.

Skrittens · January 2015

Both are NMS, but if I had to choose I would go with Adalynn a heartbeat. Addison is a boy name.

melco19 · January 2015

I like Adalyn

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4N6s · January 2015

I like Caroline as the first name.
Caroline Adeline.

egen78 · January 2015

I like Caroline for the first name. The other names you picked are nms

magsugar13 · January 2015

They are both bad for different reasons.

LNic5 · January 2015

Definitely not Addison, so Adalyn I guess but prefer Adeline.

I agree with pp that Adelaide would probably work better with Caroline

Dr.Loretta · January 2015

jazzra369 said:

ugotstarbucked said:

Addison is a boys name (any name with son in it means "son of") and Adaline doesn't work with Caroline. Adele or Adelaide would be better.

I don't think all -son names have to be boy names, regardless of the meaning of son. Look at Allison. It started as a boy name but I believe has firmly moved into girl territory after the 80s. Addison seems to have gone that way as well. However, I did meet a little girl named Mason and that kind of turned my stomach a little. Glad we didn't name our son Mason after all (it was a contender for a while there). But names do evolve. Who knows, perhaps Neveah will be like some awesome name our grandchildren want to use for it's 'history." (again, stomach churns).

OP, it's a difficult call but I think I'd go with Addison.

That's not how it works.

OP, I don't like either, and not sure why you're insistent on them being one or the other. Adeline is the only option IMO. Maybe Adeline Carolyn

capulet · January 2015

I have two kids, so believe me when I say that Addison/Madison/Madeline/etc. is so overdone right now that I roll my eyes every time I hear of another one. Like every other girl on the playground responds to Addie or Maddie, so why add another one? Not to mention, Addison is a masculine name and I actually know a teenage boy whose parents named him Addison, you know, right before everyone spontaneously decided it was a girl name somehow. So if I have to pick, Adalyn, but I don't like the spelling and I don't think either three-syllable name ending in N is really ideal with Caroline as MN. It sounds like the start of a limerick. I'd far rather have Caroline as the FN and something I'm not sick of hearing as the MN, or vice versa.

queenbone · January 2015

Definitley don't like Addison. Prefer Adeline to Adalyn, but not with MN Caroline.

Suggestion: Adelaide Caroline

jelina · January 2015

Ummm...no. Allison is a diminutive of Alice, which is all female. Addison means son of Adam. Very different. Adeline is a much better option but I might go cross-eyed if I see another random Y in a trendy name. Addies are everywhere too.