ok - who likes Madelaine Rose for a girl?

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Lovely name but she'd never learn how to spell it !

I like Rose

Oooops - i think i spelt it wrong!!

love it

Lovely, but agree, spell it Madeleine.

Don't like 'Maddie'. Too popular.

I have a Madeleine. She's 5 and a half and can spell it! Needless to say, I think it's a lovely name (and I love the name Rose too - unfortunately for me it has connotations of a past relationship that went seriously pear-shaped, but otherwise I think it's lovely!).

Easy to teach her to spell it... You teach it rhythmically...

em ay DEE
ee ELL
ee AYE
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(iyswim)

Worked for me, anyway. Just working on the surname now, which has 11 letters and is not at all phonetic!

My Madeleine does get it shortened to Maddie, but I also call her Madge! It's not that popular (I only know of one other Maddie in her school).

Lovely name now but will it suit a stroppy punky teenager? Of course by then she will have decided on the abreviation (or not) that she likes and will suit it to her personality. I like it!

It is very very pretty -- just hope you don't get a tom boy!!

I like it and I also like Maddy. I only know of one Maddy (DD's nursery) too, although no idea what her full name is.

Regards popularity, from the Top 100 names for baby girls in England and Wales 2005:

MADELEINE is number 68

And other names shortened to maddy maybe:
MADISON is number 43
MADDISON is number 75

Speaking from personal experience, Maddy suited me as a tomboy and a goth teenager, and seems to work fine now too! I think kids grow into their names and Madelaine Rose is a lovely one.

I like it, but it brings back memories of a Madelaine (she spelled it that way) I went to school with who was regularly called Mad Elaine (and other variations on a mad theme) for as long as I knew her.

Rose is beautiful ... although I'm biased, it's dd's middle name.

lovely names
I would have liked them both but dh vetoed

Both names are lovely seperately but together sounds a bit like a scary film

It's pretty, but there are lots of Maddie's in my hometown.

My Mum is called Rose, we considered it as a middle name for DD but went with DH's Mum's name instead