Thoughts on Madelyn or Carlotta for a sister to Camilla

[Francescarae]

We are trying to have baby number 2 so I’m thinking of names, we have decided on our boys name.

we have a daughter called Camilla Marie
we call her “Millie” for short or sometimes “Millie Marie”

I have always loved longer traditional full names with cute ie nicknames

we have two choices

Madelyn Mae-nickname Maddie /Maddie Mae
Carlotta Grace- nickname Lottie /Lottie Grace

boys name already decided:

Oliver James - Nickname Ollie

let me know your thoughts x

I like Madelyn Mae the best

There are some nice names tucked amongst this list op: I think Camilla Marie is sweet, with Marie being a classic but not currently popular middle name. Mille Marie is sweet.

I'm going to be very honest and say I just don't get the attraction of Grace. Greta, Gerda, Grace, Gretel - all those Gr sounding names I fail to see the appeal of as GR just isn't a pretty sound.

Madeline is nice and goes better with Camilla than Carlotta I think, but why the different spelling? if you liked something more unusual, how about Magdalen? Maddie Mae is giving me Rod Stewart "Maggie Mae" vibes, and I think Maddie Mae and Millie Marie together is just getting a bit too saccharine and dollsy.

Carlotta is an interesting one. I think Charlotte is quite nice. Not a favourite, but fine. However I really am getting tired of Lottie. It's everywhere and the more I hear it, the more I think Clotty Lotty. But using Carlotta without shortening to Lottie is an interesting choice, but I'd try to think of something a bit more elegant than Lottie Grace.

Madeleine spelt properly is lovely - Madeline will also do at a push but not your silly spelling

Mae as a middle name is shite
Carlotta is too similar to Camilla
Grace is also shite
Pick Madeleine and a better middle name...

I agree with you and admire you for not beating about the bush.

I agree with @RoseField1 — Madeleine is nicer than alternative spellings, which also run the risk of continual mispronunciation. Not Mae. I quite like Carlotta (the fiery bareback riding circus girl in Enid Blyton’s St Clare’s books, but Carlotta and Camilla are too samey together.

I don't think there is any point sugar coating on the name threads! Nothing worse than people being polite to someone's face and secretly thinking their child's name is shite. And that's what happens IRL so the beauty of mumsnet is you can say what people are really thinking!

I'm revising my view on madeleine anyway alongside Millie, Maddie is too similar. Pick a completely different name.

Madelyn Mae - spelt like this, is awful.

The girl names are both too close to your current daughter for me to be honest. Maddie and Millie are very similar, and Camilla and Carlotta. I would be tempted to go for Madeleine if it's only out of those 2 for a different official initial so it's less annoying for things like post (I have this problem with my dad).

Alternatives:
Josephine - Josie
Rosalind - Rosie
Harriet - Hattie
Georgina - Georgie

I don’t understand why you would deliberately spell a name wrong? Madeline is lovely. Mae is generic and a bit pointless.

As stated Carlotta is too similar to Camilla, I’d just go for Charlotte if you like Lottie.

Although I agree with the above Maddie and Millie do sound a bit daft together.

Like Madeleine or Madeline. Dislike your spelling variant.

Dislike Carlotta. Like Charlotte (which can ne shortened to Lottie).

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What's your point? OP didn't say she's pregnant in either thread. Bit pointless posting the same name again but hey. She's introduced a new bad name choice now 😆

@RoseField1 , many of the replies will apply and some of the details won't have been mentioned on this thread.

Carlotta is great

Not pregnant but just exploring ideas for when we do have a second, everyone’s name preferences are different, it’s not pointless looking at options

Why Carlotta, do you have Italian heritage?

No just think it’s not pretty, Camilla is an Italian name also

Can't hear Madaleine without hearing Mccann but perhaps I'm in the minority now.

Edit to say I don't know any Madaleine's personally so perhaps that soon fades when you do.

Her name was/is Madeleine.

I don’t understand why you pick a name and then call your child a shorter/different version of the name. Using a shorter/different version of a name isn’t a nickname. A nickname is a name that happens organically. Just choose the name you intend to use for your child.

I love Carlotta - like a PP it reminds me of the Enid Blyton character.
It’s such a fab name though I think shortening it to Lottie ruins it.

I don’t like Madelyn or Madeleine at all.

We like horses so Carlotta felt fitting due to Enid blyton

Sums up everything I was going to say.