Looking for a twist on Darlene or Marie

Girl Names
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If I were to have another girl I would like to choose a middle name to honor my aunt [name]Darlene[/name]. To be honest, I am not crazy about using the actual name [name]Darlene[/name] and her middle name, [name]Marie[/name], is a bit predictable for my liking so I am wondering if anyone has any good alternatives to either [name]Darlene[/name] or [name]Marie[/name] so I could honor somehow, but in a more unique or modern way.

Thank you!

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You could choose [name]Darla[/name] instead of [name]Darlene[/name]. Or you could choose [name]Marlene[/name] which is kind of like smooshing [name]Darlene[/name] and [name]Marie[/name] together.

You could use variants of [name]Marie[/name] like [name]Mary[/name], [name]Maria[/name], [name]Moira[/name], [name]Molly[/name] etc.

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[name]Daria[/name] was my first thought, sort of like [name]Darlene[/name] and [name]Maria[/name] together.

[name]Marley[/name] perhaps? It puts the middle of [name]Darlene[/name] into [name]Marie[/name]. You could even spell it [name]Marlie[/name] if you want to mimic [name]Marie[/name].

4

[name]Darla[/name], [name]Marla[/name], and [name]Marlena[/name] are all nice.

5

Mareen
Darma ([name]Dharma[/name]?)
Darlena
Darling
[name]Arden[/name] (letters of [name]Darlene[/name] minus l and e)
[name]Arden[/name] [name]Mariel[/name] (or [name]Mariel[/name] [name]Arden[/name]) uses almost all of the letters of [name]Darlene[/name] [name]Marie[/name]. I suppose you could spell [name]Mariel[/name] as [name]Mariele[/name]

Mardelenie or Mardeleine or [name]Madeleine[/name] R (or R [name]Madeleine[/name]) would use all the letters of the two (with the A and R not repeated) - could also do [name]Madeline[/name] by not repeating one of the Es.

6

I like [name]Marlena[/name].

7

[name]Marlana[/name]
Maram
[name]Darla[/name]/[name]Daria[/name]
[name]Lena[/name]

8

[name]Darby[/name] is cute provided you don’t have any qualms over unisex names.

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[name]Marlene[/name] was my first thought. Other suggestions that I haven’t seen in the previous answers:

[name]Lene[/name]
Marienne/[name]Marianne[/name]
[name]Dara[/name]