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My favorite names are bolded. If you have any combinations from these, or middle name suggestions, that would be great! Oh, and I also included their popularity ranking in 2005 (there are multiple numbers for different spellings).

Girls:

Adah
Alana #169
Alice #414
Amelia #84
Carys (pronounced car-iss)
Charity #654
Delilah "Lily" #583
Elisabeth (middle name only) #449, #12
Grace (middle name only) #14
Jocelyn "Joss" #87
Katrien "Katie/Kate"
Keely #809
Kyla #194
Laurel (middle name only) #787
Lilian "Lily" #471, #49
Liliana "Lily" #993, #576
Madeline (ending pronounced "lin" and not "line") #69, #106, #334, #546
Noa
Rei (middle name only)
Shoshannah

Boys:

Andrew (middle name only) #6
Bennett "Ben" #395
Bryant #365
Caedmon
Dei (middle name only)
Elliot #386, #416
Emmett #589
Ethan #5
Gideon #690
Graham #409
Grant #154
Harper #743
Ian #68
Jameson #483
Jonah #184
Josiah #126
Keaton #362
Kendrick #553
Laurence "Laurie" #396
Michael (middle name only) #2
Merritt
Paul (middle name only)
Spencer #178

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Gideon is my favourite boys name :]

No offense, but it bugs when people spell Madeline like that and pronounce it Madelyn. Why not just cut to the chase and spell it Madelyn/Madalyn/Madilyn? It's not making it any more unique spelling it Madeline. She'd just have it misspronounced her whole life.

But I do love the name, and it saddens me to think it's getting so popular. =/

I'm not opposed to spelling it Madelyn, but I kind of like how Madeline looks... I don't know, I'm open to both. :)

My cousin's name is Madeleine, but pronounced Madelyn, and it bugs me to the point that I spell it "Madelyn" in birthday cards and such. I'm so nice :]

Haha I bet she doesn't appreciate that. ;)

Madeleine and Madeline aren't about being creative -- they actually happen to be the original spellings of the name (by original, i mean they preceed spellings like Madelyn/Madlyn/etc).

http://behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=madeline

That being said, Madeline is the original spelling. True. But Madeline is pronounce "line" and therefor it's not the same as Madelyn.

i've always known it to be pronounced interchangeably between the two, like the name caroline. *shrug*

Yay! This is the first time I've seen my own name on someone's list! That made me smile. =D

Haha, I'm glad I made you smile. :) I really like Hebrew names!

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Awesome! :)

I never get this because I've always understood Madeline to be "line" at the end, and Madelyn being "lin" at the end. Hence why it's "MadeLINE". Hmmm. Same with Caroline/Carolyn. It bugs me.

I like Madeleine, too, but to me I hear that pronounced as Mada-lane.

Maybe it's location? I don't know, Madeline and Caroline are interchangeably pronounced "line" and "lin" here. *shrug* Actually, the first time I heard of the name Madeline, it was pronounced "lin" so that way just seems natural to me! :)

I have a friend named Madeline and it's pronounced 'lin' at the end. I think it's fair to say you can pick which ending you want to use.

True, but at the same time you can avoid confusion by spelling it "line" for the pronunciation "line" and "lyn" for the pronunciation "lyn"...

But it is not a big deal, especially compared to some other names and their spellings.

-Girls-
I like Carys pronounced like ca-REESE. Katrien is very interesting, I haven't heard of it before but am coming to a new appreciation of Katherine-related names, so I think I quite like it. I like all your middle names.
I don't like Keely - it reminds me of someone keeling over with a stomach ache. I've met two dear little girls with this name, and even their cuteness didn't make me warm to the name.

-Boys-
Love Andrew... I really like Bennett too even though I wouldn't use it for personal reasons... Graham is very traditional but not so common, quite a strong name. No particular thoughts on the others

I'm not in love with Keely, although I'm drawn to it for some reason. It's not a name I'd likely use, but it's hard for me to find girl names I like... so when I stumble on one I even remotely like, I tend to automatically add it to my list! :)

Why can't you use the name Bennett? I think Graham is really strong too!

Oh... and thanks! :)

I can't use Bennett partially because I knew someone with that name, and partially because I think it would seem weird in my family to be giving someone a name that was a lastname unless it was a family name...if that makes sense. Otherwise, I like it on other people. It's probably not one of my absolute favourites anyway, so I guess I also wouldn't use it simply because I had preferred other names first. I just think it sounds nice, is a strong and masculine sort of name, has good associations, and isn't too common.

Bennett is my maiden name...I wish I LIKED it, because then I could use it. LOL.

Carys is such a lovely name:
Carys Amelia*
Carys Elizabeth
Carys Grace
Carys Shoshana
Carys Lily
Carys Liliana

Jocelyn Alana*
Jocelyn Amelia
Jocelyn Katrien
Jocelyn Rei*

Delilah Alice
Delilah Carys
Delilah Elisabeth
Delilah Grace*
Delilah Katrien
Delilah Keely*
Delilah Madeline
Delilah Rei
Delilah Shoshana

Bennett Josiah*
Bennett Keaton
Bennett Kendrick
Bennett Michael

(I'm bored now!)

Thanks so much for the ideas! I have Jocelyn Alana paired up in my mind, so it's great you made that pairing too! And I really like Bennett Josiah and Delilah Rei. Thanks again! :)

Oh man I have liked Keely for a looong time, and I've never come across anyone else who liked it :) I doubt I'd ever use it, it sounds pretty trendy and like it could spike in popularity at any given moment, but it's def one of my guilty pleasure names.

Same here! I have not met many people who like it. I'm not sure if I would use it or not, but I do really like it!

Is Rei pronounced like Ray?

Yes! It's Hebrew. :)

I like that.