Madeline or Madelyn?

Madeline and Madelyn are pronounced differently, IMO.

Madeline is Mad-eh-line rhyming with vine at the end. As in, the little red-headed French girl from the books.

Madelyn is a trendy spelling of Madeleine, pronounced Mad-eh-lyn or Mad-eh-len.

Adeline, as far as I'm aware (and I've known three) is pronounced Ad-eh-line too, not to rhyme with Madelyn.

My Adeline is pronounced Add - eh - lynn; nobody has spelled it incorrectly yet but occasionally do assume it's "Add-eh-line", which we expected and aren't bothered about. Think I would pronounce "Madeline" with a "line" bc I grew up on the children's cartoons!

These threads are brilliant.

OP: I want to give my DC-2-b an offbeat name - what do you think? And by the way, when you all come back with the exact* comments the DC will contend with for the rest of its life, I'll refute them to the bitter end. Thereby wasting everyone's time, and saddling my baby DC with a PITA name that everyone warned me about, into the bargain. 👍🏼

*See Noah for a girl.

You can see the English spelling here in this poem by Keats
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44470

Written in 1819, so not exactly 'new fangled!'

Note that he has rhymed it with 'divine' and 'mine', though.

LESS traditional.

Ahem .... Madeline is indeed the traditional English spelling, according to my name dictionary. [gavel] At the moment Madeleine, the French spelling, is far more popular though. Sort of like how the French spelling Claire became much more popular than the English spelling of Clare, and so became the default.

Trouble is if you spell it 'Madeline' you will get people saying Made-line to rhyme with wine. Just correct them though, if you really don't want to spell it Madeleine.

Madelyn or similar just looks like traditional, and therefore less classy, unfortunately.

Oh, I've never seen or heard to Adelyn. That sounds made up to me, which is fine, though it looks like it should be pronounced aid-lyn, don't know why.

It can really only be Madeleine.

Never heard the name Adelyn in my life.

I can't help but read Madeline as 'made-line', but I know I'm probably in the minority! I like Madelyn too but again I'm in the minority as that's the 'American' way which is always a very poor choice according to MN

I would pronounce both Madeleine and Madeline as Mad-eh-line (as obviously it would never actually be 'made-line').

The thing is OP, however you spell it, people will pronounce it however you want it pronounced, you should only have to tell them once if they don't get it first time. It's really not hard to remember how a certain person's name is pronounced and people who continue to get it wrong MUST be doing it on purpose, I literally don't understand how it can be hard

Medeleine is just the right spelling, whether you're French or English. Adeline is pronounced add-eh-line so not the same anyway.

But if you want to do an alternate spelling I'd go for Madelyn, it looks quite nice and you'll get it pronounced how you want it to be.

Oh, and NNs are not inevitable.

If you have to use one of your versions I prefer Madeline, but as far as I'm concerned the correct spelling is Madeleine. I'm not a fan of new fangled spellings for lovely, traditional names.

If you were to ask 100 people "how do you pronounce "Madeleine" as in Madeleine McCann, I am pretty sure that at least 75 of them would say "Mad eh lyn", including her own parents.

No, because you pronounce adeline add-a-line, not add-a-lyn.

I'd pronounce Adeline "A de line" though, not "a de lyn"? Like in Bread and Guys and Dolls.

You spell it Madeleine in English and French though. To me, it's like saying you don't want to call your son Paris, as that's the French spelling - you want to call hime Parriss.

(I have a Madeleine, can you tell? )

The children's character is pronounced mad eh line I believe, think there was a film made of it?

Madeleine is the most used spelling, I think on hearing of a child called mad eh lyn, most people would automatically spell it madeleine, so you might find yourself correcting people a lot if you choose an alternative spelling.
I associate the madeline spelling with the book character and I think that is pronounced mad eh line.

just because the name is sometimes spelled with that alternative doesn't make it the "the English spelling". It's just a spelling. My point is that many many English people who pronounce it madelyn will spell it Madeleine and will not be telling everyone that they deliberately chose "the French spelling".

Madeline would be the way I'd have it spelt & sounds like how you wished it pronounced.
If stear well clear of Madelyn, it's a bit like people called Nicola who call themselves Nikki, to sound exotic and yoonique like Jessie said