Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge’s decision to name their newborn daughter Maddie Briann is “a surprising choice,” baby name expert Pam Satran, coauthor of baby-naming guides Cool Names and The Baby Name Bible, tells Joynews.“[Maddie is] cute but nearly old-fashioned at this point,” Satran says. “The nickname Maddie has been popular in its own right since the 1980s, when it was the name used by the character played by Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting.”
The name is short for Madeline (the French variation of Magdalen, which is Greek for “high tower) or Madison (of English origin, meaning “son of the mighty warrior”), which was a top name several years ago, Satran explains.
“Both Jamie and Maddie are ’80s-style nickname names,” Satran adds. “Rather than mother and daughter, they sound like classmates – co-captains of the cheerleading squad!”
As for Maddie’s middle name, Briann, Satran reveals its “a modern feminization of Brian, Irish for ’strong.’
Briann, Brian, Brianne and Brianna have been trending downward over the past several years, Satran points out.
Jamie Lynn gave birth to Maddie Thursday at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi. Maddie – Jamie Lynn and Aldridge’s first child – weighed 7 lbs., 11 ounces.
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June 20th, 2008 at 11:26 am
thanks for the post
June 20th, 2008 at 11:27 am
i can not believe this could happen:) she is only 17
June 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am
maddie >>—> mighty warrior
thats sound nice
June 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I think the name is okay. I don’t like too popular names. But she should have named her Madeline so Maddie would be the nickname, just in case she doesn’t want to go by Maddie when she’s older.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
well like i said before…that name is effin ugly
June 20th, 2008 at 11:41 am
i think its a cute name!!!
June 20th, 2008 at 11:42 am
shes to young. 17 and already has a baby. im not one to judge but i think before she was pregnat she wante to be a good role model for younger girls and look what happens. she probably thinks that she will be a great mother and is still a role model but she needs to face reality that shes becoming like her sister
June 20th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Great - another unwed teen mother.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
chill they arnt out yet and they will when she does the interview with OK idk when its gonna come out though
June 21st, 2008 at 3:13 am
that s right victor:)
June 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
OMG WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you go crazy over the other millions of babies born every day and especially those that won’t live the spoilt over indulgent life that this baby will live and whose parents will struggle to feed it and cloth it but those babies aren’t as impotant as a Spears baby are they??????
June 26th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
y this is so important 4 us? fck her
June 26th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
that s right
July 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
nice site thx
July 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
fck her