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Comments for MADELEINE:
A famous bearer is the Swedish princess Madeleine.-- Anonymous User 5/19/2005
Also the amazing author Madeleine L'Engle. (She wrote a Wrinkle In Time, etc.)-- lena92 7/15/2005
Madde is a common nickname in Sweden.-- Anonymous User 12/20/2005
Madeleine Albright, first woman Secretary of State of the USA.-- Ylva 2/10/2006
Madeleine Allbright(ová) was born as Marie Korbelová.-- Maggie_Simpson 7/29/2006
The French say it Mad-LEHN. In America, however, we say Mad-a-LEIN.-- Anonymous User 4/3/2006
Ma-de-LEHN. Not MadeLYN. Not MadeLINE. Madeleine is the most beautiful and most classic form of this name.-- Fionafabulous 5/3/2006
This is such a beautiful name!-- Mab 7/17/2006
Madeline is a young French character from a book of the same name, which was made into a movie.-- Anonymous User 8/10/2006
I prefer the pronunciation Mad-e-LINE or Mad-e-LYN. However I think the abbreviation Maddy or Maddie is untasteful and nowhere near as nice as Madeleine.-- Anonymous User 8/10/2006
As the website says, I would pronounce it the French way ma-de-LEN.-- Anonymous User 10/9/2006
Madeleine is best just kept as Madeleine. Not Maddy, Maddie or Mads.-- nothingshortoftragic 12/12/2006
In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", Madeleine Usher is buried alive with her brother's knowledge but escapes the grave only to die in his arms.-- black_lace 1/12/2007
Madeleine is really really classy, unlike the ugly Madisons you get today. Madison is more of a boy's name.-- 7up 1/23/2007
Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is a famous bearer.-- Morninglory379 2/16/2007
A famous bearer is Madeleine Morrison - daughter of Keith Morrison, NBC newscaster and sister of Matthew Perry.-- Janika 7/19/2007
This is a nice name, but people probably don't use it at the moment for an obvious reason.-- Anonymous User 8/16/2007
Is it because of Madeleine McCann?-- Anonymous User 10/6/2007
Yes it is because of the missing girl, but everyone seems to have forgotten her anyway.-- Anonymous User 11/15/2008
Please don't say that you shouldn't shorten the name Madeleine to Maddie or whatever and it's not as nice because it is. Being called Madeleine all the time makes me feel weird and people can't be bothered to call you Madeleine and will call you Maddie anyway.-- Glamorous 8/21/2007
I think it looks much prettier without the second e, as in Madeline.-- Anonymous User 10/2/2007
Madeleine is a song by Jacques Brel. Madeleine is a lover who never shows up and is said to be too good for the protagonist but he still continues to wait for her every week.-- Izartrix 10/30/2007
Madeleine is a beautiful name. My daughter is named Madeleine Ruth (pronounced -line not -lyn) but we call her Minnie for short, I am not too keen on overused Maddie.-- Ebba 10/31/2007
I love this name, if I have a another daughter her name will be Madeleine, it is a pretty name and classy too.-- Anonymous User 11/27/2007
Madeleine was the name of a young woman that Claudia made Louis turn into a vampire in Anne Rice's "Interview With The Vampire".-- outsiders_fan 3/4/2008
Madeleine is a small plain sponge cake, sometimes coated with jam and rolled in coconut, topped with a glacé cherry. It was probably named for a 19th-century French pastry cook named Madeleine Paulmier. However, conflicting reports say that Madeleine Paulmier was an 18th-century cook for Stanisław Leszczyński, whose son-in-law, Louis XV of France, named them for her. The cakes are remembered for their association with the Marcel Proust novel 'À la recherche du temps perdu.'-- AndrewJKD 4/13/2008
To me, this name just sounds hopelessly elitist and stuck up, or just plain pretentious and somehow over-the-top. It's like the name of the parents' little princess.-- slight night shiver 4/28/2008
I love the French spelling. Our first daughter is Madeleine Grace. Heaven forbid, we do call her Maddie, much to the dismay of many on this board. But it's perfect for her. She may very well choose to be Madeleine as she grows up, but she loves her name.-- iocaine 5/28/2008
Generally pronounced mad-len in France, although older people may pronounce it mah-duh-len.-- Anonymous User 6/5/2008
I LOVE this name. Definitely on the top of my list of girl names. Lovely.-- jaclyn_francesca 7/1/2008
I love the name Madeleine! It strikes me as very elegant but not too powerful for a little girl. I think it's lovely paired with Elisabeth. I don't mind the nickname Maddie but I'd hate to have people assume that her name is Madison, which is not nearly as good a name as this!-- glassmidnight 8/2/2008
The name of my sister is Madeleine. In Dutch it is pronounced as mah-duh-lyn-uh. I usually call her Leintje (lyntjuh).-- Kaat5 8/20/2008
I really like this name, sounds very royal-like. An alternative spelling, which I like better than this one, is "Madelene" or simply how it's pronounced in Sweden "Madelen".-- Madvis 9/9/2008
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine; born 10 June 1982) is the youngest child and second daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden.-- Anonymous User 9/30/2008
I really like this name, I was in Paris this summer and there is a metro station called "Madeleine", my boyfriend and I agreed to call our first daughter this.-- Anonymous User 10/6/2008
My name is Madeleine. I love it. My friends call me Maddie, but my entire family calls me by my full name. I love being called this, I think it's really pretty! All my teachers end up calling me Maddie even if I don't ask them to, which is annoying, but they do it anyway. I pronounce it Mad-el-in with a short I. For the long I, you are talking about the name Madeline.-- lokie4811 2/11/2009
This is SUCH a pretty name! So classic and beautiful. I don't like the name Maddy at ALL! I don't like Maddy, if she needed a nickname I'd shorten it to ADDY. When I hear this name I think of an adorable little girl or a beautiful adult.-- becca_marciano 3/4/2009
It's so gorgeous, regal, and beautiful. I would venture to say this is the most beautiful girl's name ever.-- Anonymous User 3/9/2009
Madeleine McCann, that adorable little girl who went missing. It's unfortunate people are so evil.-- Anonymous User 3/16/2009
This name is just gorgeous, and if I ever have a daughter I will name her Madeleine. I'd rather use the full name, but I think Millie would be a better nickname than Maddie, it just sounds more classy in a way.-- Genevieve_M 4/2/2009
My daughter is Madeleine, pronounced ma-de-LEN. It annoys me when she gets the Madeline books for presents - Madeline is an English girl living in Paris who pronounces her name ma de LINE. As in rhymes with "12 little girls in a straight LINE, the youngest one was MadeLINE".
Equally annoying are the atrocious misspellings of the name - Madalyn, Madilin, Madelin, Madalinn, Madilynn, Madylynn. Learn to spell.-- Anonymous User 4/21/2009
Madeleine is such a lovely, sophisticated name. Spellings like Maddilynn are not. Why do such a thing when you can have a beautiful, respectable name with the same pronunciation?-- Anonymous User 6/14/2009
My name is Madeleine, and heaven forbid, many of my friends call me Maddie. My mother doesn't like it, but they do it because they know I like it. I'm not a huge fan of this name, purely because it's just not very me, if you know what I mean. But it is a very pretty name.-- madeleine09 10/7/2009
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