Which girls name do you prefer?

[sunshineday223]

Hallie
Isabel / Isabelle
Lottie (but not Charlotte)
Madeleine / Madeline

Thanks in advance!

@Heckythump1 Eloise!

Oh, Eloise is gorgeous! You have nice taste. Also I feel that Eloise would go better with Madeleine or Isabel than with Hallie, as they're all slightly more traditional names.

Actually another reason to go for Madeline, imo, both Isobel and Eloise have a 'z' sound, so Madeleine might be better as the sounds are more of a contrast? Yet the same naming style. If you know what I mean...

Eloise is a lovely name. One of my favourites

for me it’s:

Hallie
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Maddy
Lottie
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Isabelle

I definitely prefer the spelling Madeleine as I can’t help reading Madeline as made-line.

Madeline

Ah thank you for the nice comments re Eloise!
I also think I lean towards Madeleine vs Madeline, I imagine it's the kind of name that will get misspelled constantly whatever spelling you choose! But Isabel is probably the same!
I do also like the Isobel spelling but DH thinks it's like Isofix 😅

Madeline or Madelein ( pronounced Mad-uh-lin.)

@sunshineday223 , I see Isobar

Madeline

Ooh Eloise is pretty! I actually think Madeline goes best with that.

For the record... my eldest daughter wanted our Lottie to be called Knobby... we obviously didn't go with that suggestion! 🤣

Hahaha! I don't know.... knobby has a ring to it and you'd never have to worry about it being too common!

@DuchessOfSausage as do I now! 😂

Eloise is nice but it seems a bit of a mouthful and there's the dreadful Elouise misspelling, which I see as Louse.

How do you pronounce Hallie?

Hall ee? Like an entrance hall?

Hal ee? Rhymes with Pal ?

Hallie and Lottie all the way! You have great taste in names!

@DuchessOfSausage hee hee that's actually my 3 year olds name! Someone just asked so they knew what I was pairing my impending new DDs name with!

Luckily no one has misspelled it as Elouise yet but I do agree that's not good!

@RonButterfield the latter!

Isobel is the nicest. Not keen on Madeleine and Lottie is fine but not as a proper name on a birth certificate.

Love Madeleine. Hallie doesn't sound like a proper name, just a collection of sounds.

Isabel

I like Hallie, Lottie and Isabelle. Isabelle and Lottie are lovely, but very popular now, especially Isabelle and all the variations. Hallie is unique

Out of interest, why wouldn't you put Lottie as a proper name on a birth certificate?

I don't understand why some people would put Charlotte on the birth certificate but never actually use or intend to use that as the child's name! Surely, if you actually like the 'proper name', then any shortened versions wouldn't be used. Unless of course you dislike the 'proper name', in which case why chose it?

That's just how it works though. It has been traditional for hundreds of years that you give a child a name that has some cultural significance to you (maybe after a family member) and that you like. Could be a biblical name or a saint's name. Say for example Elizabeth and Thomas. Then your children have proper names they can use officially.

But within the family you may call them Tom and Bess, or Lizzy, just because these diminutive forms of their names are more affectionate and less formal. Everyone else understands this, it's a thing. And it also helps to differentiate between family members with the same name eg they might have had old Uncle William, brother Will and baby Billy.

This happens in other countries not just in Europe, eg India.

It also gives people options, eg a Catherine might be Kate to her friends, Cathy to her family, Catherine at work. It's all quite normal.

Madeleine

Isabelle is pretty.

Madeline is a nice name but I just associate it with Madeline McCann