Delainey

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Thinking of various names and like Delainey. What do you guys reckon? Any other names that are similar welcome please.

It's a Surname .... Only one I know with Christian name is a horse.

In French, 'laine' = wool and 'de' = of

So De laine = 'of wool'. I don't want to be impolite but am afraid that's what I saw when I first read 'Delainey'.

As others have said, Delaney is a surname of Irish origin. I am not particularly keen on surnames as first names, but it's your choice. If you like it, then use it!

I really like it! Not seen your spelling but Delaney for a girl I think is nice. Have also met one boy with Delaney as a first name and my reaction was "oh, like the song?". I think that would be a fairly niche response, though (and anyway it's a good song).

I like Delaney as a first name.
Don't like the i in it.

I have a real hankering to watch Four Weddings and a Funeral now!

I like it

But not with the "i"

Pretty awful

Don't like it sorry - especially with the unnecessary "i"

Laney on its own is nice.

Madison
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Megan
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Jessica
Kaley (?sp)
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Taylor

It's a surname, and not a particularly attractive one at that.

Huh

Why is it not 'attractive' MyNameis...

I just thought of 4 Weddings straight away.

I know a Delaney who goes by Laney. It's an Irish surname (spelled Delaney with no I) co-opted into use as a first name, like Flynn and Donovan and others..

As surnamey names go, I like it. But I would spell it 'Delaney' because the extraneous I would put it in Youneek territory.

To be honest didn't give much thought about the I! It doesn't have to be there that was what I automatically typed.

However what is wrong with creative names? Agree some look awful like l-a LAdasha but some are pretty like Mollie rather than Molly.

Is Mollie for instance tooth itchy?

I just think why saddle a child with an unusual spelling/pronunciation so they will spend their life correcting people who get it wrong. I know an 'Aime' why not just Amy a why make life more difficult than it needs to be?

Mollie is not 'creative' in the same way as L-a because, in regular English spelling 'ie' and iy' at the end of a word signify the same sound. They are genuine alternatives.

Spelling has evolved over centuries and keeps on changing, but it does follow certain patterns or rules. It can't be entirely random, otherwise written communications would be extremely difficult - and word-based computer programs would be impossible to use.
In different languages, each letter has it's own sound. Which is why 'Aime' as a spelling for 'Amy' in English (or French) does not really work. Normally, in English, a final 'e' is silent or is a 'uh' sound or softens the consonant before it. So following normal English spelling, we read 'Aime' as 'Aim' or Aim-uh, not as Amy. That does make me tooth-itchy, I'm afraid.

The - (dash symbol) in L-a is a punctuation mark, not a letter. It has meanings (either to mark the sudden end of a phrase or to indicate a space between words) but it does not in normal spelling signal a sound. We don't write, for example, 'I -ed to the shop to buy some more bread....'

If people like the name Ladasha, then why not spell it Ladasha or even Ladacia...

sorry - in first line of above iy' should of course be 'y'

And of course there should be no apostrophe in 'its'. More haste, less speed...

Mollie is a perfectly acceptable, normal variant. Delainey is a misspelled surname. Totally different.

Flora, am impressed! Genuinely!

I have yet to actually meet someone with a creative name that is laughable. I wonder if most are urban myths.

I have a friend called 'Delaina', which I think is a much nicer given name than 'Delaney', however you want to spell it.

Mollie isn't creative -- Molly and Mollie are equally acceptable versions of the name imo. But when a name is already a fairly common surname with a standard spelling, any change looks like someone trying to stand out.

When did ie endings become acceptable? Are you certain our foremothers would have put ie at the Molly?

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2012/08/top-200-most-popular-names-in-england-and-wales-1900.html

I don't think Molly or Mollie are on that list, but it has Jenny and Jennie, Nelly and Nellie, Lily and Lillie, so yes, I think 'our foremothers' would at least have considered it.

Ie endings became acceptable sometime around the 15th century. Perfectly normal. Delainey, not so much.

Gosh, atypical thank you very much indeed. We all use language. It's the MOST democratic art form. (Names are part of it.) We all take part in it /create it. Computers/texts etc mean that language is changing all the time. Yet it is not much considered, when compared with visual art/music etc (both of which are great). But language is also SO important. I wish that schools looked at the wider aspects of it, and explained why grammar, spelling etc are not just reactionary and boring and restrictive but are tools that actually help us all to understand and shape the worlds we live in.
Sorry to go on so ...