Kelley writes:<\/p>\n
\nWe have 2 children named Landon and Adaline.\u00a0 I had a long list of names for each, and arrived at their names with no hesitation.\u00a0 With our third, there is none that have that strong feeling of, \u201cThis is THE one and only name for her!\u201d\u00a0 My sweet grandma\u2019s name is Emily, and so I was going to do Emma Grace.\u00a0 I am sure you know the extreme popularity of that name!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n2 of the names I have gone through, and liked, are Makenna and Madaleise.\u00a0 I still don\u2019t have that 100 percent tug at my heart that either of those are the one!\u00a0 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<\/span> and my hubby\u2019s name is PhiLip.\u00a0 So, we all have an L in our names.\u00a0 Our last name is Hart<\/span>, so a lot of names go easily with it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like any common names, nor any top names.\u00a0 I like uniquely beautiful names. If he was a boy, his name was most likely going to be Jensen Nolan.\u00a0 I fear this baby will end up with a name that I just have to settle with, instead of love.\u00a0 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?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nand<\/div>\n\n\nAlso, forgot to mention, but Giada is a really cool name and she is so gorgeous.\u00a0 It just doesn\u2019t go with Hart<\/span>.\u00a0 Both sides of our family have strong Italian roots as both of our grandpas were 100 percent Italian.\u00a0 If you look at either one of us, you would think no way.\u00a0 Our children both have that nice olive complexion, while we are both fair-skinned.\u00a0 Sorry for the rambling. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nI wanted to let you know too that I have thrown around Emmaline as a name, but don\u2019t know if that would be a bit much to have Adaline and Emmaline?????????<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nand<\/div>\n\nWhat do you think about Isla Marie… too popular again?\u00a0 I just don\u2019t want a popular name or a current trendy name.\u00a0 I am telling you, this little girl is not going to have a name.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nand<\/div>\n\nWell, on this Christmas day, after spending hours a week trying to settle on a name, I believe we have decided on Makenna Emmalyn Hart<\/span>.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It puts me more at ease now!\u00a0 Thanks so much for your site.\u00a0 You sure do have a gift with words! <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nand<\/div>\n\nI am ultra indecisive still.\u00a0 I like Makenna, but the more I say it, the more it does not go with Adaline.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 They will be sharing a room all their life, at least that\u2019s what I am saying now.\u00a0 I just want their names to harmonize somehow.\u00a0 I like Emmalyn as a first name, but I think my husband\u2019s sister would go crazy since she is naming one of her twins Analyn next month.\u00a0 Do you have any suggestions of a name that sounds beautiful with Adaline?\u00a0 About 7 weeks left till c-section…. heeeeelp!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nI 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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> to find more options to consider:<\/p>\n
Cecily
Clara
Claudia
Eleanor
Eliza
Lydia
Molly
Phoebe
Sadie<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAdaline 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.<\/p>\n