adelaide

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

Sydney?

Adeline

I know an English aristo called Adelaide nn Addy so I don’t think it’s too Aus. Plus it makes me think of Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.

I’d suggest Adele if she wasn’t a lik rly famous popstar.

Aleida
Alina
Ada
Adeline
Adelina
Alida
Alice
Alix
Adela

I like Adelaide! The city was named after a person, so it wasn't originally Australian.

I love it! It was top of my list but DP said no haha!

Ada
Ida
Ava
Adeline

Abigail?

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Adeline
Adela
Adelicia

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.

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?

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)

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

Emmeline
Ada
Ida
Madeline
Heidi

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.

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

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)

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

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

Ada and Heidi are beautiful names too

I like it

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

Addison