Grace or Madeleine?

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Thanks!

I like both. Love ‘maddy’ as nickname or ‘mads’ both of which friends of mine are known by.
Grace is very beautiful - I know it is hugely used as a middle name - is it ‘overused’ (as if there were a limit!) as a first name?

I love both names and DD was almost a grace. But maybe reconsider Madeline depending on when you're due as Netflix are launching a Madeline McCann document which could be an uncomfortable link. We discounted Madeline for this reason

I vote for Grace

I love Madeleine. It's a beautiful name.

Both! Madeleine Grace sounds beautiful!

I don't ever associate the name Madeleine with Madaleien McCann. It's just a name. It's stupid to link names with a missing person! Does it suggest that everyone with the same name who has ever gone missing or done a horrendous crime will have the same fate? Madeleine is a beautiful name and it's hardly notorious.

I didn’t for a second think of Madeleine McCann and I just read a news story about her earlier this morning !

She’s a missing child not a mass murderer, even if you do think of her it’s not a terrible thing.

Madeleine Grace for me

She’s a missing child not a mass murderer, even if you do think of her it’s not a terrible thing

Well said, I’m sick of seeing posters saying that they’d never choose Madeleine because of Madeleine McCann. It baffles me how on earth they connect a small child going missing to something distasteful or negative.

Now if it was Myra then I would understand but not Madeleine, fwiw I think it’s beautiful and a million times nicer than Grace which imo is ok for a middle name.

Dd2 Is 21 and is a Madeleine. It's a name that has served her well!

I have a Madeleine and I highly recommend it!

Madeleine

Grace Madeline

Grace is far too popular for me. I love Madeline though.

I love both.

Grace for me

Madeliene Grace

Much prefer Madeleine.

Grace

I love both but possibly Grace and Gracie have been over used atm. Madeleine is lovely.

Madeleine.

Grace.

Madeleine is beautiful!
No link for me at all to Madeleine McCann. I think it’s a common enough name that it wouldn’t draw links for most people.
Oh I also hate Maddie as a nickname but that’s personal preference of course!

Sorry, I just think McCann.

Grace is lovely.

Madeleine. I think it's a very beautiful name. It's in such regular usage that I doubt anyone will think of the mccanns! I know two Maddies my own age and a toddler Maddie.... it's far from unusual so I dont think it just links to the Mccanns at all!!

Grace is pretty but it's really popular at the moment so that would put me off.

Madeleine is a lovely name, just sounds nice. Grace would make a good middle name, as pps said. The thing with Grace, although I quite like it now, is that I think people only like it because of the lovely meaning. And it's short and makes a good middle name, like Rose does. But the actual sound of the word 'grr-ayss' isn't particularly attractive.