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adelaide

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drth12 · 14/03/2018 20:20

Love the name adelaide but dh says it's too australia. can anyone suggest any similar names?! am feeling a bit stuck.

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SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 20/03/2018 15:05

Adeline reminds me of this song by Minnie Driver:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hoZUnTyBFcc
Smile

HuskyMcClusky · 17/03/2018 19:35

The others are nice, but Addison is awful.

AmysTiara · 17/03/2018 18:45

Adelaide is a lovely name.

Ada, Adele, Addison, Adeline are all nice but I much prefer Adelaide.

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drth12 · 17/03/2018 18:41

Thanks all, I will keep trying to talk oh round. But do love Adeline too so that's a possibility. Sibling name is Faye

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SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 16/03/2018 23:05

Love Adelaide

sexnotgender · 16/03/2018 22:59

I was more thinking Addison Montgomery from private practice.

TatianaLarina · 16/03/2018 22:55

Addison as in the illness...

sexnotgender · 16/03/2018 22:52

Addison

daisypond · 16/03/2018 15:47

You could use Adelheid, the original German spelling, from which Heidi comes.

TheChippendenSpook · 16/03/2018 14:28

I like it Smile

battenbergbutterfly · 16/03/2018 14:27

Ada and Heidi are beautiful names too

kinorsam · 16/03/2018 14:26

Queen Victoria's eldest daughter was Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise.

I like Adelaide, it was my grandma's name.

Frazzled2207 · 16/03/2018 14:23

I like it.
I know an Adeline which is nice. Pronounced adel-een though I guess some might say it Adel-ine (to rhyme with wine)

HeyMicky · 16/03/2018 14:22

I love Adelaide and DH vetoed it both times as being too Oz. I feel your pain. Other names on our lists:

Eliza
Clara
Elodie
Felicity
Cadence
Claudia
Sylvie
Josephine
Ava
Millicent
Constance
Juliette
Philippa

HuskyMcClusky · 16/03/2018 14:12

Adelaide is beautiful. My friend has one, and we live in Aus!

Anyway, it was a person’s name before it was the city in South Australia, so I wouldn’t let that put you off.

Lifeaback · 15/03/2018 23:07

I love Adelaide! Beautiful name, keep trying to talk your DP round in my opinion. Other suggestions:

Emmeline
Ada
Ida
Madeline
Heidi

pallisers · 15/03/2018 23:05

The German pronunciation (think it's German origin?) is adel-eye-eeda, which I think is much nicer than adel-aid (pronounced like the Australian place). Would that be an option to avoid the Australian connection?

She'd be correcting people for the rest of her life though (unless she lives in Germany). I think the name may be French in origin (although I agree it looks and sounds German)

harrietm87 · 15/03/2018 22:15

The German pronunciation (think it's German origin?) is adel-eye-eeda, which I think is much nicer than adel-aid (pronounced like the Australian place). Would that be an option to avoid the Australian connection?

LastNightsMakeUp · 15/03/2018 14:43

I love love love Adelaide. It’s in my list. I had the ‘Australian’ chat with my OH and after a brief history lesson he got it 😏
I actually first saw this name when I was pg with dd when walking home through a very beautiful and old graveyard..., on a grave. Maybe a little strange for name inspiration but the turn of the century names are by far my favourite.
Classic and beautiful.

MammieBear · 15/03/2018 13:48

Adeline
Adela
Adelicia

Kokeshi123 · 15/03/2018 12:29

It's a beautiful name. Adele is nice too.

Heatherbell1978 · 14/03/2018 21:36

My best friend passed away a few years ago and this was her baby name if she was to have a girl, which she didn't. I decided to call my daughter Heidi which is the shortened version of Adelaide.

IWouldLikeToKnow · 14/03/2018 21:30

I have a friend who has just named her baby this. My initial reaction was hmmm, not sure, but 20 mins later I loved it!

windchimesabotage · 14/03/2018 21:20

Adeline
Madeleine
Ottilie
Matilda
Magdalena
Ada
Adele
Leda
Ariadne (ah-rhi-ad-ney)
Aleila
Alexandra
Rosalind
Emmaline
Amelia
Lottie

pallisers · 14/03/2018 21:20

Wasn't Adelaide in Aus named after Queen Adelaide, wife of King William (IV? The one before Victoria).

I think it is nice. old fashioned without being trendy. I think it is from the same root as Alice - means nobel.

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