Baby girl name help?

[Pinkfairy00]

Found out we’re having a baby girl but really struggling with names! I love Madeleine but we’ve decided against it as everyone we mention it to brings up the mcanns 🙃
we can’t agree on a single name! Husband likes Hailey. We both like maya but not enough for a first name, I want a name that’s not too popular, but also not made up? Not a fan of old names, any suggestions please ?

Madison/Maddison?

Madison
Kaia
Hallie
Emmeline
Annabelle
Clementine
Raya
Elise
Lorelei
Callie
Cleo
Meredith
Cecily
Genevieve
Estelle

Why are you telling people the name? Madeleine is lovely, and although it is linked with one person, there are others like Madeleine Albright and Madeleine Wickham, both inspirational, strong women.

Hailey's not my taste and Maya's been overused.

Madison's a bit too American for me. It's a surname.

Rhiannon
Eliza
Elise
Felicity
Ashlee
Tessa
Adelaide
Eve
Imogen
Sienna
Erin
Courtney
Asha
Rachel
Naomi
Tahlia
Nina
Lillian
Lucy
Amber
Karina
Julia
Tamsyn
Alana
Cara

I love the name Madeleine.

Melissa
Melody
Natalie
Marianne
Celine
Erica
Ria
Carla

Madeleine is lovely. Used by a lot of people. Madison is not the same vibe at all.

I'd say Genevieve, Adelaide, Marianne, Penelope are a similar vibe.

Madeline is lovely. Ignore those linking it to the McCann case - if we did that with every name that has been in the media/courts there would be a long list of names to avoid.

Anyway, don’t tell people your chosen names until after baby is here as all you’ll get is a monologue of negative connotations and opinions like you’ve already had. You’re excited and want to share your thoughts on names but you have to be prepared for people’s responses if you do this (although few will say anything once baby is born!).

What about Adeline- similar to Madeleine but without the connotation

Molly, Natasha, Erica

Similar in that it rhymes but not otherwise.

Maeve
Merryn
Mara
Maura
Away from the M’s
Felicity
Ramona
Esme
Fay
Lois

Madeleine is such a beautiful name. It's been several years since the Madeleine McCann tragedy, is nobody ever to use the name again?

That would be a pity.

Matilda, Mirella, Maeve?

I like Madeleine. You can’t avoid every name that’s been in the news. But if you really don’t want it, how about Miranda or Imogen?

Miranda and Melissa are both lovely.

I love Hailey but DH found it too old fashioned. Fenna?

To me Madeline and Hailey are not of the same genre. Hailey is very 90s. Madeline was not a popular name until Madeline McCann.

It's hard to suggest names when the two you like are so different.

@PenandPip , Madeline was not a popular name until Madeline McCann. She was Madeleine and it was popular before she was born (2003)
Baby name explorer
She disappeared in 2007.

Alexandra
Cleo
Emma
Francesca
Dora
Philippa
Rosamund

Maybe so but I never heard of anyone, let alone a 3 year old called Madeleine. Still haven't heard the name in my community or social circles. I personally wouldn't use the name.

You posted something that wasn't true. I could say Leo is really rare because I only know 3 and the youngest of them is 18.

Seren , means star in Welsh.

We know loads and it was on our list for ds who is 31 now. Our top girl names on the list were:

Madeleine
Imogen
Cordelia; and
Verity

There was usually a Madeleine in their classes.

I know a few Madeline's/Maddie's aged under 10. People say/think different things before the baby is here vs after they've arrived and own their name. Have never once looked at the Maddie's I know and thought Mcaan. Might do after this post.