Madrigal

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

Do you like this as a girls' name, or is it to out there?

I quite like Madeleine but I don't like Madison.

[Vixxfacee]

Mad gal

[WhiskyTangoFoxtrot]

It's a random noun, not a name.

Perhaps Aria or Calypso, which are established names and also types of music, instead.

[StrawberryTeaLeaf]

There's an MNer by that name

I quite like it. It's better than Maypole etc. Better associations. Awkward if she grows up to be of the 'tuneless dirge' school of thought about them, though

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

Calypso is a lolly :)

Aria is pretty but doesn't go with my second name.

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

I like the sound as a name. It's not so much linked to music as just thinking it sounds pretty. It's also unusual but Maddie is far more common.

[fearsomepixie]

Makes me think of Blackadder. "Hot sex madrigal in the middle of my tights".

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

Never seen it.

[Boredofthinkingofnewnames]

It sounds like a prescription drug.

[Only1scoop]

Think it's daft

And tuneless

[PolyesterBride]

Makes me think of Tales of the City - Mrs Madrigal

[StrawberryTeaLeaf]

So you're not a fan of madrigals then?

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

Not heard of that either.

[PeopleLieActionsDont]

Isn't Madrigal a character from a book? I think it sounds made up. I like madeleine but I think it is too associated with the missing little girl, so I wouldn't choose it.

[badg3r]

Have you ever heard a madrigal? I would be really embarrassed if that was my name, and hope everyone thought Maddie was an abbreviation of Madeleine...

[RJnomaaaaaargh]

Lovely. There's a series of books with a madrigal. I'll try to find them.

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

That's partly what puts me off Madeleine.

Madrigal is Renaissance song. It has a pretty sound, I think, and I do like the nickname Maddie.

[RJnomaaaaaargh]

Daughter of smoke and bone by liana Taylor.

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

Will have to read - hadn't heard of it :)

[Cerseirys]

Isn't a madrigal a musical instrument?

[Yarboosucks]

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six.

Or of course there is Mrs Madrigal, the transgender landlady in Tales Of The City

[reuset]

Ooh we've had some corkers posted this week! This one doesn't win though.



Not good. And it sounds more like a name for boys or wizards But it's not really a proper name is my main gripe.

[reuset]

Yep, strong musical association, obviously, and I am most familiar with it as a surname.

[Darkbehindthecurtain]

To ME, calypso is a lolly :)

My name isn't a 'proper' name.

I still think madrigal is pretty ... I like the fact it's unusual but has a more common abbreviated form.

I also like Callia, Astrid is a possibility but not really in love with it - think I like the meaning more than the name itself - and Mariana.

[Gobbolinothewitchscat]

What do you mean it has a common abbreviated form?

madrigal is a noun. Madrigal singers don't go round saying they've just sung a "maddie".

It's like me calling DC3 Chair but then saying the common abbreviated form of that is Charlie. No it isn't. No one calls a chair a Charlie.

[Only1scoop]

A 'Madrigal' doesn't have a common abbreviated form as far as I know?