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I prefer Adelaide.

I love it. A beautiful classic. I saw a ba for an Adelyn the other day, its cute and sort of trendy to fit in with todays crowd, but i much prefer Adeline Add-ell-ine or even Adaline -Ay-da-line.

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It doesn't work with Ellie as a nn in my opinion. I would go with Addie, Addy, Adele or Della.

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Another similarly nice name is Emmeline. or Emmaline.

Its not common where I come from-in fact, I don't think I've ever met an Adeline in my life. Its an all right name, a little nerdy, but cute. I don't think its a full name for Ellie, and I think a better nn would be Addie.

No one I know is named this, but it's Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong's clothing label and record label's name. Green Day is my favorite band, (I've seen them live twice) so I like the name enough (but just as a middle name).

No, it is not common at all where I am but Madeline is. Where I am Ellie is a very popular first name or short for an El- name. If I met an Adeline "Ellie" I'd think it to be very contrived.

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Adeline is very sweet, but the name nerd inside of me think it's a bit nicknamey, like you know when you make someone's name longer to be cute? Well that's what Adeline is: a pet form of Adele. But most people wouldn't know that.

Sweet Adeline

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"Sweet Adeline" always comes to mind, and that's a plus.

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Adeline is seeing a resurrence in popularity. I've seen it on boards a lot, although I don't know of any little Adelines personally. My guess is that the huge popularity of Madeline is helping it along.

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My favorite nn for it is Addie, but Ellie works just fine too. I would think that Adele is a more natural origin to the nn Ellie, but there's no reason why Adeline couldn't work also.

This message was edited 6/26/2008, 12:59 PM