Post by freewilly42 on Feb 3, 2015 15:40:01 GMT -5
I'd love to hear your thoughts on these two names. DH and I are pretty sure our baby girl will be named one of them, but we can't agree on which one! Pros/cons/thoughts? We're thinking probably:
I love Gwendolyn/en and and adelaide both so much, theyre both at the top of my list. So its tied for me. I know people hate "addy," but just correct people when they do it if you dont like it.
Eta ultimately I lean more on Gwendolyn/en because i cant picture an adult adelaide.
I love Gwendolyn/en and and adelaide both so much, theyre both at the top of my list. So its tied for me. I know people hate "addy," but just correct people when they do it if you dont like it.
Eta ultimately I lean more on Gwendolyn/en because i cant picture an adult adelaide.
Adelaide was one of my great-grandmothers' names, so, to me, it has always been an old lady name. Funny how our experiences shape how we view names. I like Adelaide, but would avoid the nn Addy like the plague. Luckily, the name lends itself to other nns if you absolutely had to have one. Ada, Adel, Del, Dela... I wouldn't use a nn at all, personally.
Gwendolen is fine, too... Not my favorite, but a perfectly acceptable choice.
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Post by clearlycrystal on Feb 3, 2015 23:35:51 GMT -5
I like Adelaide. I know a sweet 4th grader with that name and she never goes by Addy. Maybe it is just me but I never use a nickname unless the child asks me to.
Well if this LO is a girl her MN will be Adelaide but it's a family name. It's my grandma's MN and I really wanted to honor her but DH doesn't like her FN but we're using her first initial. That being said I wouldn't have used it as FN because I'm really over the Addy trend. There are a million of them. I'm not loving Gwendolen/Lyn either. Just NMS.
I'm biased (we're about 99% sure that Gwendolyn is going to be our LO's name), but definitely that. We had a brief love affair with Adelaide, too, but I didn't love Addy and really wanted to be able to give LO a cute nn (we're going with Wendy as my mom is Gwen).
Post by daystardreams on Feb 6, 2015 13:30:29 GMT -5
I am in the minority because I pretty much love all the Addie names, however I like Gwendolyn better. I also don't have a preference on -lyn vs-len. I have always seen it with a y though.
Same! Our girl name was Guinevere this time so I'm super partial to the Gwens! I actually don't like Adelaide at all and the Addy/Addie makes it worse for me
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