Adelaide

[peppapig3]

What do you think of this? I like it and like Addie for a nn.

i love it! never met an adelaide but think it sounds very pretty and not at all chav - and addy too.

A big no from me.

Don't like, sorry

If you like Addie just call her that. Adelaide is horrid.

I like it. I've never met one in real life so it's unusual without being stupid or kre8ive.

I'm never all that keen on names that are also place names.
But I quite like Adeleide anyway (although it makes me think of the character in Guys and Dolls)

Adelaide is awful, sorry!

It's not like Dakota or Indiana, though. The city was named after the queen, not the other way around. It's like Victoria.

Only if you call her siblings Perth and Sydney.

Brisbane (Brissy)
Darwin (Winnie)
Hobart (Bartie)
Canberra (Berry)

Must get off these threads I have an essay to write...

Melbourne (Mel or Melly)

I quite like it.

I met an Adelaide (age 12) recently- it's OK I think it's the original form of Alice or something.
I wouldn't use it myself, people will assume she was conceived there!

It's lovely, an old german name meaning "noble" (I think).

It's how I got my MN name, DP wouldn't have it for DC3 (who was a boy anyway).

I can see that it makes some of you think of the Aussie city but it's not the same as calling your child Darwin or Melbourne. Adelaide is a German name meaning noble. The city was named after a princess of that name rather than the other way around!

www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Adelaide

Oh, just overlapped with your post Cadelaide- great minds eh!!

adelaide-lovers unite

I rather like it I think.

Makes me think of Adelaide Adams in Calamity Jane.

I always imagined I might nn her "Lady".

Poncey or what?

Friends dd is called Adelaide and I think it is a lovely name. I also come accross it quite a lot at work (family history) it was quite popular in Victorian times, in families with nice names (not the boring Mary and William type families that send me to sleep!).

I went to school with one. Very unusual. I like it. Adel for short though, not Laide!!

that is friend's btw.

I think it is a bit poncey as I imagine it being used by v well to do Victorian ladies!! It's obviously a bit of a marmite name!

Maggie B, Adele is a pretty nn too