Madeline and
Jacob are pretty mediocre. Especially compared with other names I've seen you consider in the past these two fall very flat. I'm not a fan of
Jacob at all; I think it's all-around unattractive. I don't like the -ob ending or the tendency for people's pronunciation to sound more to me like a P than a B.
Jacob is really dragging down both of the middle names. In a pinch I would vote
Jacob Cosmas, but I think everything is more or less ruined by its close proximity to a name I dislike so much. :-/ Ideally I would ditch
Jacob entirely and just put
Leonard and
Cosmas together. Have you thought about
Leonard nicknamed
Lev? If not
Len or
Leo that's the next place I'd go, I think.
Peter has been growing on me lately to the point where it is
almost a favorite. Like
Stephen and
Vincent I can think of a hundred good things to say about it, but only once in a blue moon does it make my top five. Where it really wins for me is in the combo; if it has a middle name that hits the spot I'll love it.
I would also take
Margaret or
Magdalene over
Madeline. Or Madelieve, another neat one that is similar.
ETA: Just as a little interesting thing someone might appreciate--I subbed at a local high school and had a kid in class named
Titus. It was more awesome than you'd think it would've been.
This message was edited 10/25/2009, 3:13 PM