We have 2 children named Landon and Adaline. I had a long list of names for each, and arrived at their names with no hesitation. With our third, there is none that have that strong feeling of, “This is THE one and only name for her!” My sweet grandma’s name is Emily, and so I was going to do Emma Grace. I am sure you know the extreme popularity of that name! I have seen 2 recent postings on facebook of people who just named their baby Emma Grace or are going to name her that with their baby due in March.
2 of the names I have gone through, and liked, are Makenna and Madaleise. I still don’t have that 100 percent tug at my heart that either of those are the one! I am wondering if a name with a letter L in it would go well, since we have Landon and AdaLine. Also, my name is KeLLey and my hubby’s name is PhiLip. So, we all have an L in our names. Our last name is Hart, so a lot of names go easily with it. I don’t like any common names, nor any top names. I like uniquely beautiful names. If he was a boy, his name was most likely going to be Jensen Nolan. I fear this baby will end up with a name that I just have to settle with, instead of love. We would like to have one more child in the way future. Can you help us name our little girl, about to arrive in March, which is also the same birth month as mine? Please?and
Also, forgot to mention, but Giada is a really cool name and she is so gorgeous. It just doesn’t go with Hart. Both sides of our family have strong Italian roots as both of our grandpas were 100 percent Italian. If you look at either one of us, you would think no way. Our children both have that nice olive complexion, while we are both fair-skinned. Sorry for the rambling.
I wanted to let you know too that I have thrown around Emmaline as a name, but don’t know if that would be a bit much to have Adaline and Emmaline?????????and
What do you think about Isla Marie... too popular again? I just don’t want a popular name or a current trendy name. I am telling you, this little girl is not going to have a name.and
Well, on this Christmas day, after spending hours a week trying to settle on a name, I believe we have decided on Makenna Emmalyn Hart. I was looking back on your posts from 2009 and noticed someone who named their daughter Mckenna Emmaline... and so I decided to go with something similar. It puts me more at ease now! Thanks so much for your site. You sure do have a gift with words!and
I am ultra indecisive still. I like Makenna, but the more I say it, the more it does not go with Adaline. See, they will only be 20 months apart, and I just have this stubborn thing going through my mind that I want their names to go well together. They will be sharing a room all their life, at least that’s what I am saying now. I just want their names to harmonize somehow. I like Emmalyn as a first name, but I think my husband’s sister would go crazy since she is naming one of her twins Analyn next month. Do you have any suggestions of a name that sounds beautiful with Adaline? About 7 weeks left till c-section.... heeeeelp!
I think of Adaline as a sweet pioneer girl name, and Makenna as a modern surname name. This does not mean, however, that they don't work as sister names: as a pair they fall into a category that is neither super-coordinated nor clashy, but more in between. And Makenna fits perfectly with Landon, and with Jensen if you want to use it later, so Makenna seems like a good choice for this sibling group.
If it doesn't quite sit right, however, it could be that your taste in boy names is more modern/surname, and your taste in girl names is more pioneer/vintage. Your attraction to the name Emma Grace supports this theory. In that case, I might look in the Antique Charm section of The Baby Name Wizard to find more options to consider:
Cecily
Clara
Claudia
Eleanor
Eliza
Lydia
Molly
Phoebe
Sadie
Adaline and Emmaline do seem too similar to me, with their matched endings and rhythms---but if you were in love with the name, I wouldn't think it was wrong to use it. I'd caution that it might make you feel obligated to choose another -line name if you were to have another daughter later. Madaleise, too, seems very similar, with the repeating -adal- in the two sister names.
Isla is a very pretty name, and I like it with Adaline: they're different, but not at all clashy. The spelling Adeline was the #288th most popular girl name in the United States in 2011 (source); Isla at #268 is a nice fit, popularity-wise. (Landon is #34, but I think it works fine to have different styles/popularities for the girl/boy names in a family.)
Emilia might be a good way to honor your Grandma Emily without using Emma. Emilia Hart; Adaline and Emilia. And I worry less about name popularity when the pay-off is getting to use a family name.
Giada and Madaliese make me think of Nadia. So pretty and underused! Nadia Hart; Adaline and Nadia.
If you would enjoy finding a name with an L in it, I think that would be fun; but I definitely don't think you need to do that if it adds to your stress. Also, if you do use a name with an L in it now, will you be able to use Jensen later on, or will you feel like you have to keep going with L-containing names?
I think I would notice that both children had a D sound in their names before I noticed the L sound. A few more D names to consider (though again, this could make you feel uneasy using the name Jensen later):
Audrey
Bridget
DanicaDelaney
Delia
Emerald
Hadley
Lydia
Matilda
Melody
Meredith
Miranda
Nadia
Sadie
I started that list on a whim, but a lot of them seem like they'd work really well.
(Your sister-in-law didn't ask for my advice, and so it would be inappropriate for me to give it. But for anyone who has come upon this post while researching the name Analyn, I would strongly suggest adding a second N to avoid the series of those first four letters.)
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