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I say Madeleine, you think...

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sunnyawry · 23/03/2015 22:50

Honest opinions needed.

She has a brother zach and a 3 syllable surname.

I don't know the sex but we seem to have a good few boys names we can agree on.

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Tomodachi · 02/04/2015 14:53

small sponge cake.

Guadalupe · 02/04/2015 14:50

Book and cake and several people I know called Madeleine including a baby.

HazleNutt · 02/04/2015 14:46

Princess of Sweden

InterOuta · 02/04/2015 14:39

McCann

BaronessBomburst · 02/04/2015 14:23

I thought of cake.

squatcher · 02/04/2015 14:13

Beautiful name. I think of Proust, cakes, and Madeleine Stowe.

BitOutOfPractice · 02/04/2015 14:09

Sorry that should've said

Allbright

BitOutOfPractice · 02/04/2015 14:09

All right

theendoftheendoftheend · 02/04/2015 14:06

Lovely name, it's on my list!

Acer77 · 02/04/2015 13:59

Classy. I think it is a lovely name. Sounds grown up and sophisticated yet is lovely when shortened to Maddy. I didn't think of the McCann association personally. I imagine a pretty french girl :)

Providore · 02/04/2015 06:24

My newborn niece :-)

WizardOfToss · 02/04/2015 05:32

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BifsWif · 31/03/2015 18:15

McCann here too im afraid.

StainlessSteelBegonia · 30/03/2015 21:11

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NormHonal · 30/03/2015 21:08

A beautiful girl in DC1's class at school.

And Bagpuss.

Purplehonesty · 30/03/2015 21:05

McCann and cake
But the first one popped right into my head first

ThereisnoFinWay · 30/03/2015 21:02

When you just say the name I do think McCann, but when I meet a child called it I never think that.

Elmersnewfriend · 30/03/2015 20:58

A lovely little girl in my son's yr1 class. It's a really nice name.

Blahia · 30/03/2015 20:52

And after that I think of the French cartoon -love that!

Blahia · 30/03/2015 20:51

McCanns.

But that doesn't matter! It's a beautiful name, I love it :)

LokiPokey · 30/03/2015 16:21

McCann and not because of MN. I always think of that poor girl when I hear that name.

MonstrousRatbag · 30/03/2015 16:01

I think immediately of 12 little girls in two straight lines. And cuddling in a chair watching the film version endlessly with my then 5 year old niece, to the utter despair of her brothers.

MarieJeanne · 30/03/2015 15:58

My Madeleine was born pre-McCann. I Was inspired by a character in North and South played by Lesley Anne Down.

mathanxiety · 30/03/2015 15:47

A lot of Irish Madeleines I know pronounce the -leine as -leen.

That is amazing, Deste.

NormaSwilley · 30/03/2015 01:30

There's an alternative.

Madeline, where the -line rhymes with mine (as in Caroline).

Like the girl in the poem "The Eve Of St Agnes".