Are they too similar?

[ellesgirl]

I'm having a girl!

I want to called her Elsie Mae, I love Elsie as it's an oldish name but suits a little one and Mae is my sisters and my boyfriends grandmothers name.

However my boyfriends niece is called Kelsey - Mae, I feel like they are too similar especially as K-M is currently the youngest.

Any help? Are they too similar?

Nothing wrong with Elsie on its own but if you like ‘older names’ - Kitty, Lucy, Lilly, Freya or Esme?

Ruby Mae, but just keep the Mae (was it not May?) because it has a family connection. Don't use as a double barrelled name, Mae has been done to death.

Elise
Eloise
Eliza, as a pp suggested
Elodie

Ada
Iris
Ivy
Vera
Matilda
Etta
Maisie
Cora
Hazel
Edie
Daisy

I really wouldn't personally add Mae to a name. There are loads of them. Perhaps you could choose May as the first name?

They're too similar.

Elizabeth nn Betty
Frances/Francesca nn Frankie
Constance nn Connie

My DD and DH niece sound the same like Stacey and Lacey but that's not their actual names

How about Elise rather than Elsie. I think it's much more elegant and less childish and cutesy.
Definitely not Mae. It's so popular as a middle nowadays, it's today's Louise. How about Faye?

Is anybody else familiar with the White Heater Club - particularly the annoyingly catchy song about Andy MacKay and Sandy MacKay?!

Any time I heard even one of them mentioned in a family context, I'd be internally singing "I'm Elsie-Mae, I'm Kelsey-Mae, twa Heiland lasses are we!"

Here's a representative (if much less raucous) version of it. You'll be humming it for days and hating me every single time!