Ne-Yo Welcomes Daughter Madilyn Grace

Same name as my daughter, just spelled differently! Needless to say, I love that name!!!

Love the name! Congrats to the couple. Hope Madilyn is doing okay despite her early arrival.

Pretty name, I wish all the best to Ne-Yo and his new family.

Maybe they are planning to use Madi for short. Can we say, thinking outside the box, being unique? Not everyone has to conform. As for her being born in November when due in January, she is exactly like me. I was due in January as well, but born on November 14th. And, I have been doing just fine for 37 years. I have a feeling Madi will be too.

Mira- I don’t know how you pronounce it, but where I’m from, Madilyn (Madelyn) and Madeline are too different names. Madelyn is pronounced Mad-Uh-Lynn and Madeline is pronounced Mad-Uh-Line. Different people might pronounce it different ways.

I personally like both names, and I think Madilyn is a pretty spelling. I wish them all the best with their new little girl and hopefully she is okay and not *too* early! There is nothing sweeter than a little girl, or a father daughter relationship.

@Mira, Grace hasn’t suddenly becoming popular or trendy. On the contrary, it is a classic middle name. Grace, Rose, Marie, Leigh and Anne are all commonly used middle names. Grace is a nice name, middle or first. Just because Madilyn is spelled differently doesn’t make it “Misspelled”. Growing up, having an H in my name was an anomaly. My parents felt it looked better with an H. Doesn’t mean they were incapable of spelling. And now both spellings are common (along with half a dozen variations. Doesn’t make them misspelled either.).

Congratulations to Ne-Yo and his sweetheart! Hope all is well with little Madilyn Grace!

KEM, no offense, but just because you were born this early and are fine doesn’t automatically mean Madilyn will be, too. Monyetta was somewhere between 29 and 33 weeks pregnant, and no matter who you are, being 7 to 11 weeks premature can have lots of complications. I’m not saying that that’s the case here, since obviously no one knows, but your generalized statement sounds really ignorant. Oh, but happy birthday! 🙂

I also think Madilyn looks like a typo. Madeline is a nice name but to misspell is on purpose takes the beauty out of it.

Congrats to the couple. Hope mommy and baby are doing well.

I like the name Madilyn, and I like the spelling. It’s cute.

I hope the baby and mom are doing okay!

I never thought of Madilyn as an unusual spelling. The only two girls I know personally with the name are spelled Madilyn (in my 4 year old daughter’s class) and Madelyn (a cousin’s daughter). And my daughter’s middle names are Marie and Grace, Marie because it’s a family name and Grace because I love the meaning and it’s a beautiful, classic name. I actually wanted it as a first name but since it was becoming more popular decided to use it for her middle name.

I LOVE that name, but then again we named our daughter Madeleine. I don’t care for the spelling but there’s SO many different ways to spell that name. And oddly enough they all sound the same 🙂 We batted around the name Grace for her middle name but settled on Rose. Either way it’s a gorgeous name!

Heather, I love the spelling of your daughters name! It’s gorgeous and I’ve always thought that spelling looked so beautiful and sophisticated. I have said since I was like 13 that if I ever have a daughter, I want to name her Madeleine and I still love it 🙂

@Mallorie I added my two cents because you can’t always assume the worst. And as for calling my statement ignorant, your statement calling my input ignorant is ignorant of itself. If you can’t be intelligent with your rebuttal just keep it to yourself. With the fact that there have been advances in medical technologies since I was born she has a much better chance of doing quite well. As for wishing me a happy birthday, I rather not accept that from you since it wasn’t sincere. Next time please think before you speak.

If a language does not have clear rules on spelling when it comes to names, which by the way English does not, you have general spelling rules when it comes to letters but nothing when it comes to names. So it is impossible to misspell a name. It becomes a simple choice on how you as a parent, or a person, choose to spell your/your child’s name. It is plain rude to sit there and say it’s wrong, it’s a mistake. So that would be like Meghan and I saying that Mira, Anna and what ever your really name is Anonymous that you are wrong that your names are misspelled and WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE YOU PARENTS THINKING NAMING YOU THAT THE SPELLING IS WRONG OR A TYPO, AND THERE SHOULDN’T BE ANY UNIQUENESS IN THE WORLD WE SHOULD ALL HAVE TRADITIONAL BIBLICAL NAME AND NEVER SPELL THEM DIFFERENTLY OR GOD FORBID HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME NOT IN THE BIBLE.

The three of you need to get off you high horse and have a really good look around you and at the world. It looks much differently without your blinders on.

Kaylee I hope you are right and she ends up being just like you and your little girl. Home, safe, doing well in her mommy’s and daddy’s arms with in a week.

Geez, simi, you may have a point, but calm down. It’s true that English doesn’t have a lot of spelling rules, but when you take a common name and spell it differently for no reason, just to be different and original, it does look like a typo and, IMHO, it’s a silly choice. Parents, of course, are entitled to make those silly choices.

Mira I am calm, but some times Caps Lock is the only way to get the point across. Also instead of commenting on her name which I think is beautiful and with a different spelling, it allows the child to choose as an adult if she wants it pronounced the traditional way or differently. Choice I wish my parents gave me, cause truly who in the world names their child Simi. We should be congratulating the family and sending thoughts of hope, for people of religion prayers, that this little girl is doing well, and will be just fine, cause with premature babies you never know. But that is just my take on this. I just hope that mama and baby are well and get to go home soon.

Gorgeous name. Congratulations.

I like the name and by the way the letters are pronounced, Madilyn isn’t too crazy. It’s not like they spelled it Madduhlin. It’s just a slight variation. I happen to love the name and have a cousin named Madelyn Rose. I do know people named Madeline who say it Mad-uh-line, but I know others who say it Mad-uh-lynn. It’s a choice. Anyway, it’s beautiful as I’m sure she is. Best of luck Ne-Yo and Monyetta.

Wow! A normal name!! I’m surprised! LOL! And I LOVE it!! Congrats!

Erika – Thanks! We were going to spell it Madeline, but thought the extra E made it look much more elegant. That, and it’s spelled the way the French do so it honours both our French heritage.

Sydney- Where did you hear that Madilyn and her mother are healthy and doing well? Not meaning to criticize at all, just curious if you did indeed see something about that on another site, since I’ve been a bit worried they may not be healthy and doing well! 🙂

simi – My point exactly. I just didn’t understand why Mallory chose to interpret KEM the way that she did. I too found the happy birthday-comment not very sincere after she’d just called her ignorant. Oh well, who cares really…

To me, sounding it out, Madilyn makes more sense than Madelyn and Madeline is a different name altogether in my experience. Difference being than one is more “Maddie-Lynn” and the other “Mad(e?)-a-Line”. Either is lovely and Madilyn Grace is so sweet. Also, I love seeing a daddy gush about his little girl.

Congratulations! I hope all is well with baby coming so early. I like the name but prefer it spelled Madelyn.

I saw on another baby site that they had the baby shower Sunday. NeYo attended but not the mother. Why not postpone the shower? Seems odd to me

Simi, all I can think to say right now is that you seem like someone I could be friends with in real life. 🙂 I agree with you, I’m totally over it. I might have been a little snappier than usual due to a migraine and stress, so I hope KEM will forget it and move on, and Hea, too. People misinterpret stuff all the time, which is even easier to do in text, and I’ll admit I very easily could’ve misinterpreted KEM’s point. Life is too precious to worry about an online argument with people you don’t know! Haha. 🙂

Like I said, the first reason I commented on this post is that I hope Ne-Yo, Monyetta, and especially little Madilyn are all doing well!

And I have yet to find a spelling of Madeline that I don’t like. And I think it just depends on where you live/your accent, etc. on whether you pronounce Madeline as Mad-a-lyn or Mad-a-line. Because I’ve always pronounced Madeline as Mad-a-lyn.

@mira & Anonymous – when it comes to names- there are no ‘mispellings.’ It’s totally up to the parents, and what they say goes. You both must think my parents are insane with the spelling of my name… Kacee – I guess they didnt want the everyday ‘Casey.’

I love people who choose to be unique and stand out from the ‘norm’… :o)

Mallory I agree you sound like a down to earth person I could have a lot of fun conversations with:) I hope you are feeling better. And don’t worry about what others think about it after all this is a site about our opinions 🙂 You were never rude, or called anyone a pathetic or other names, you have shown other more respect that they have shown you. So at the end that makes you the better person in the end. I hope the rest of your life works really well, and you find all the happiness and joy you always wanted and should get:) My surgery is tomorrow night, and I have such mixed feelings about it. On one side I get a new heart, in a few weeks go home and have a life I never thought possible with my family. But on the other hand there is a Mother, Father and a Brother that about to lose one of the great loves of their life. No parent should ever have to lose a child.

Madison and Jillian keep in mind you are also wasting your time since you did post your comments as well and are call the rest of us pathetic which s rude and pathetic in itself. Congratulations then and thank you both for joining the pathetic wasters of time on Peoples Baby Blog. Hope you enjoy your time here. See for some of us this is a great way to talk to new people, share thought feeling opinions and have some down time. For me since I am in a clean room (no one but one nurse a day comes it to change my meds) since at the moment I do not have a heart in my chest literally speaking, a computer is all I get. Glass surrounds me, I get to see people go about their lives, see my baby girl growing before my eyes, my husband looking more exhausted all the time and there is nothing I can do about. So you two may want to think before judge people on this site, since you know nothing about us, or what we are going through in our lives. Just a thought, stop being rude and learn some respect and show it to others you may get some in return.

soph uncalled for, could you have just said “i don’t like the name. it’s to commonly used regardless of the spelling just like the name grace is”

truly would it harm you in any shape or form to be nice when you express your opinion. people are more likely to listen to you and choose your side when you do, rather then when you are being so rude and disrespectful for no reason.

Now I have seen plenty of odd names and odd spelling to names no one can pronouce but that is being individuals. I am not the same as my neighbor and that is fine. My name is just about always spelt wrong..noami, naomie,niomie etc..

Also when I was pregnant I wanted my daughter to have a beautiful name that was not so common..(like having 5 mary’s in one class…no disrespect to anyone named mary) and in going through the baby name book I came across kylie but that was also a bit common in that day and then I saw the name kayleigh so I sat down and did some spellings for the name and found I loved how the spelling of kayli flowed and I have a beautiful 10 year old with a name that is becoming more frequently heard with a special spelling for my special girl.

I never read anywhere that people must spell names a certian way and that we must bestow or child with it in that spelling..really if it was like that then maybe we would all just have the same names..like eve for all women and adam for all men..just saying

@Simi Who are you, the comment police? I obviously like to come here to discuss the posts as well or I wouldn’t have commented…and I never called anyone rude OR pathetic, but thanks for chunking that at me. My point was that I didn’t think this was a productive discussion…there is LITERALLY no right or wrong, so why try to arrive at that conclusion?? You like talking in circles? I don’t.

I also find it hard to sympathize with you…Simply because 1. You have a holier than thou attitude that is REALLY hard to get past o_o Do you HAVE to write nasty comments to everyone that doesn’t agree with you?? 2. You seem kinda mean, which is kinda understandable for the situation but come onnn….not excusable.

All that aside: Hope you recovery/feel better.

Jillian thank you for your well wishes, regardless of what you may think of me I am not a rude person at truly do not think that much of myself. I am a woman, someones mother, wife, sister, and a friend. Nothing more nothing less. I was simple trying to make a point and I am sorry that it didn’t come across the way I wanted it to.I guess it’s really heard to interpret other peoples word when you are not hearing their tone of voice or seeing their face. Your point “I’m glad you guys have time/energy to argue about how someone else’s name is spelled. *eye roll*” make you sound like you are calling the rest who comment on this site a lower form of a human being from yourself, for taking some time out of our day to write a comment.

If you were to read my first post I said the same thing English as a language is one of the few in the world that doesn’t have spelling when it comes to names. So I fully agree with you, my thought was very simple. There are better ways to make your point, better words, that do not make you sound rude, clearly something I need to work on as well, and make the rest of feel pathetic. Madison’s comment “You’re all pathetic for arguing over a child’s name that probably isn’t going to care how her name is spelled”. Madison how ever did call me and others on this site, you included, pathetic, which does not sit well with me, I am many things but pathetic is not one of them. I just simple do not believe in disrespecting people regardless of who they are and if I have ever met them, and calling someone pathetic does just that. I guess it was the way you and Madison worded you comments that made me respond in the manner that I did. But please keep in mind that all I was trying to do is point out, that by you tell us that we are pathetic (Madison) and that being on this site is a waste of time, that you are actually not only putting us into those categories but yourself as well by simply being on this site and making those comment.

As for me being comment police, no I am not that, just a person with WAY too much free time on my hands, and no TV. Thank you for your sympathy but truly it is not needed, my life is what it is and I do not wish it upon anyone else. It is my struggle, my journey to make the best way I can, but I do thank you again for your kindness. I do believe in telling people the truth in the most respectful manner that I can, but at the end of the day I am just a human that sometimes fails just like everyone else. I wish you all the happiness in your future

Soph I am not your teacher, or anyone to you at all. Your comments are your own. All I did was try and point out that there is truly no reason in this world what so ever for you to be that rude to a baby no less.

Hea you have a very good point at the end of it all non of this matters. But who we are in our every day lives and how we treat people there does. I do have a question for you, is Hea your full name cause if it is, to me it’s one of the most unique and beautiful names I have see in a very long time.

Lilianne thank you for your wishes it means a lot to me. The surgery went well, the lovely young man is no longer with us, but I do believe that part of his spirit will always live with in me in his heart that is now my own. I finally got to talk to his parents and learn what an amazing young man he was, which meant a lot to me. What shocked me the most was my daughter who had gone out got a journal and wrote down all the stories that his family had told us about their son/brother, and made a copy for both of our families. I am happy that I have a new heart and cause he was so young I get to live longer with this heart cause of it, but part of me still wishes it had gone differently, a mother should never have to lose a child.

I am still in the clean room with nothing more then a computer for next three weeks to make sure everything went well. But I should home free for the holidays that will be one of the saddest and happiest days of our lives. Also thank you for sharing the story of your daughter’s name. See my babies name is A.J we actually put just two letters for her first name. Her middle names are Aki (means bright, sparkle in Japanese) and Jane. I wanted to give her a choice in life when it came to her name. God know I never lived down Simi in school, job applications, so this way she has more options that I ever did. I wish you and your family all the best in the future, may your journey through life be a happy, joyful one with out to many mountains to climb over.

really? we have kids out here named Apple, Bronx Mowgli, and Sparrow, but MADILYN and its spelling is what everyone is going off about?….wow

@Simi, congrats on the surgery hun! I’m truly sorry for the family that lost their son, but at least he did not die in vain. God sure does work in mysterious ways. Also, you seem to be a positive person with a good spirit; I wish you a propsperous and blessed life!

As for the spelling of Madilyn, I think it is adorable. One of the enjoyments of naming your child is choosing a name that YOU like. Others don’t have to agree with it, but I find it rather hilarious that individuals are saying the spelling is wrong. A name can be anything-within reason-a parent wants it to be. My name is a unique spelling of the common name “Tricia” and I love it. I can’t tell you how often people ask me to pronounce my name, then marvel at its’ spelling. It’s a pleasure to be unique and think outside the “norm” instead of feeling the need to be ordinary…..to please who? Anywho, I would tell you how my name is spelt, but the “correct name spelling police” might want to come after me and my mom for committing such a crime 😉

Thank you, Ris!!!!!
I am glad someone is on the same page as me
Have a great day everyone

That is my daughter’s name. Except it is spelled Madalyn. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!