{"id":12596,"date":"2017-03-08T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2017-03-08T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:42:16","slug":"baby-naming-issue-are-madilyn-and-madisyn-too-similar-to-use-as-sister-names-for-madalee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2017\/03\/08\/baby-naming-issue-are-madilyn-and-madisyn-too-similar-to-use-as-sister-names-for-madalee\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Are Madilyn and Madisyn Too Similar to Use as Sister Names for Madalee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,
\nWe just found out a few months ago that we are expecting another baby. We already have a boy name picked out from the first pregnancy that we decided to use in the instance that baby number 2 is a boy. We named our first born “Madalee” but are now having trouble picking another girl name for our possible future daughter. We LOVE the names “Madilyn” and “Madisyn” but I fear that it may be too close “Madalee”.<\/p>\n

We call our first born “Maddie” so I figured if we call baby number 2 by their whole name it wouldn’t be too big of a mix up. I’ve searched for other names but I can’t bring myself to commit to another name because I love Madilyn and Madisyn so much. What is your opinion?<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nAshley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My opinion is that yes, Madilyn and Madisyn are too close to Madalee. I also think there could be disputes over the nickname Maddie, even if you decide to assign the nickname to only one of them.<\/p>\n

This would still be too similar for me, but one option is to use Adelyn or Addisyn: even dropping the M helps, and then they’d both have the option of using their nicknames. The nicknames would rhyme, but they wouldn’t be the same. But again: still too similar for me, and I think I’d get mixed up and say Madisyn and Adalee by mistake.<\/p>\n

If I were you I would look further afield. It’s common for parents to love groups of very similar names: it makes sense that if parents love the name Ellery they might also love Ellison and Ella and Everly. But I think in general that using one name from a group of very similar names rules out the others in that group: parents who use the name Evan have probably ruled out the names Ivan, Evanie, and Devan from future consideration.<\/p>\n

Here are some names that strike me as similar to Madalee\/Madilyn\/Madisyn while allowing for more distinctive sounds:<\/p>\n

Avelyn; Madalee and Avelyn
\nAverie; Madalee and Averie
\nBraelyn; Madalee and Braelyn
\nBriella; Madalee and Briella
\nBrinley; Madalee and Brinley (not sure about the repeated endings)
\nEllery; Madalee and Ellery (tongue gets a little tangled)
\nEllisyn; Madalee and Ellisyn
\nEmelyn; Madalee and Emelyn
\nEmersyn; Madalee and Emersyn
\nGracyn; Madalee and Gracyn
\nHarlowe; Madalee and Harlowe
\nKeelyn; Madalee and Keelyn
\nKinsley; Madalee and Kinsley (not sure about the repeated endings)
\nShelby; Madalee and Shelby<\/p>\n

I went back and forth on rhyming and semi-rhyming endings. Some seemed to work, especially if the names had a different number of syllables and if the rhyming included only the -ie\/-ee\/-y sound and not the full -ley\/-lee sound. Others seemed too sing-song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, We just found out a few months ago that we are expecting another baby. We already have a boy name picked out from the first pregnancy that we decided to use in the instance that baby number 2 is a boy. We named our first born “Madalee” but are now having trouble picking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12602,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}