[name]Mary[/name]: A timeless classic for sure but what do you think about [name]Mary[/name] in this day and age?
A Family name for me…I struck me that I’ve never met a little baby called [name]Mary[/name]! and inspite of the fact that it is supposedly plain… the more I pondered mary the more magical it began to feel!
So berries a few questions…Firstly, [name]Mary[/name]: dull and boring or refreshing and potentially spunky?!
Second, what middles would you pair with [name]Mary[/name] to make it feel modern and give it a bit of attitude or a playful twist?
Also any thoughts on [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name]? (My Sisters middle and Mums middle combined) [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] feels kind of spunky to me!
[name]Mary[/name] is deffinetly spunk to me! I have yet to meet a [name]Mary[/name] under 60, but I think that if I did I would ove it.
I would pair [name]Mary[/name] with something vintage as well, but eccentric. A few ideas: [name]Mary[/name] [name]Cecilia[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Helena[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jessamine[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Louisa[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Lavinia[/name], and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Annabel[/name]
[name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] is sweet, but very 60’s to me. It’s nice that you want to combine your mom and sisters name, but [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] just has that older, going down to the sock hop to grab a malt, vibe. I think if it has meaning it works.
I think that its cool, just a little old ladyish since it was number 1 for a long time. I would like it if I didn’t think of that. Theres a girl at my school named [name]Mary[/name] [name]Claire[/name]. I think [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jade[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Grace[/name], and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Claire[/name] are nice.
I love [name]Mary[/name] & I love [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name] or [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jean[/name].
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Beatrice[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Bernadette[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Catherine[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Delta[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Frances[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Cecilia[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Lee[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Louise[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Anne[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Sue[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Vivian[/name]
I like it paired in a classic combo, with a surname, or something really naturey in a southern kind of way ([name]Delta[/name], [name]Gardenia[/name])
I dislike it paired with virtue names…total nun vibe like [name]Mary[/name] [name]Grace[/name].
>So berries a few questions…Firstly, [name]Mary[/name]: dull and boring or refreshing and potentially spunky?!
Potentially spunky! I know a [name]Mary[/name] in her late 20s, it’s a nice break.
Second, what middles would you pair with [name]Mary[/name] to make it feel modern and give it a bit of attitude or a playful twist?
> [name]Mary[/name] [name]Josephine[/name] (religious but cool), [name]Mary[/name] [name]Clementine[/name] ([name]Clementine[/name] being a virtue name of sorts because of its meaning), [name]Mary[/name] [name]Elena[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Iris[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Camille[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Olivia[/name], there are a lot of directions you could take it!
Also any thoughts on [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name]? (My Sisters middle and Mums middle combined) [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] feels kind of spunky to me!
>Sorry, this just makes me think of the shoes and the slang term for marijuana :…it has a nice ring, but I would recommend just considering [name]Jane[/name] as an additional middle perhaps ([name]Mary[/name] [name]Olivia[/name] [name]Jane[/name], etc).
[name]Mary[/name] sounds dull and boring. It’s dated imo. All the [name]Mary[/name]'s I know are in their 20/30’s now.
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name] only makes the name sound even more dated/plain/dull. I grew up in the country so [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name]'s and [name]Sammy[/name]/[name]Sami[/name]/Samme [name]Joe[/name]'s were quite the popular thing to do back then.
If you go with [name]Mary[/name], I would pair it with a more “modern” name, something like [name]Mary[/name] [name]Emmeline[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Wren[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Lucia[/name]
Potentially spunky for sure. I think it’s refreshing to hear [name]Mary[/name] today and it is [name]LOVELY[/name] name with so much weight behind it.
I know a [name]Mary[/name] [name]Elise[/name] which I think is very pretty. I’d pair it with something a little fresher, modern, maybe a little quirky if youre going for playful
[name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name]…I’m torn. The sound is really nice, both names are such classics, but I really would only think of 1. shoes and 2. marijuana. (Sorry!! Many people won’t, but some will…)
I think [name]Mary[/name] is refreshing and potentially spunky. [name]Mary[/name] is a classic, it can never be dated [name]IMO[/name]. I go to school with a [name]Mary[/name] and she is so pretty and talented!
For middle names I like:
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Harper[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Sage[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Eloise[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Matilda[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Coraline[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Valentine[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Romilly[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Emmeline[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Wren[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Lark[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Scarlett[/name]
[name]Mary[/name] [name]Quinn[/name]
I adore [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name]. It makes me think of the girl from Spider [name]Man[/name]. I love the nn MJ “Emjay” too
I love [name]Mary[/name]! I would use it if it worked with my last name. I think it’s spunky and classic enough to wear well when she’s a grown-up.
I think it would be gorgeous paired with a longer or more distinctive middle name.
I think [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] has too much of an “image” in it’s connotation- whether that connotation is the teenager in the sixties sharing a soda and listening to the juke box or marijuana (it sprang to my mind too, lineska!) I think a lot of the charm of just [name]Mary[/name] is that it doesn’t have much of an image associated with it- it’s a simple, pretty, classic name that everyone knows but not many people have. [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] has more of an associate image to it.
I love [name]Mary[/name] on a little girl! I think the trick is to pair it with something super fresh. It’s like [name]Emily[/name], in a way. Everyone has heard it so many times, that it doesn’t even really register as a name, just a word. Pairing it with a lovely middle or double name makes people really hear [name]Mary[/name] as a name, beautiful in its own right.
I love [name]Mary[/name] as a double name, when it’s not used with standards like [name]Beth[/name], [name]Kate[/name] and (sorry) [name]Jane[/name]. I know a women named [name]Mary[/name] [name]Martha[/name] who named her daughter [name]Mary[/name] [name]Martha[/name] and I think it’s adorable! I like previous poster’s suggestion of [name]Mary[/name] [name]Delta[/name]. [name]Mary[/name] [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Mary[/name] Thisle are on my personal list.
My friend is named [name]Mary[/name] [name]Kathleen[/name] and she goes by [name]Mary[/name] [name]Kate[/name] or MK. Kind of like [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Kate[/name] [name]Olsen[/name] but without the dash.
I love [name]Mary[/name], and I’m always excited on the rare occasions when I meet a little one. These days, for me, it’s much more of a standout name than more current choices like [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Eleanor[/name], or [name]Charlotte[/name].
Within the past decade, I’ve met a little [name]Mary[/name] [name]Paige[/name] and a [name]Mary[/name] [name]Kate[/name] (double name). My favorite [name]Mary[/name] combos are [name]Mary[/name] [name]Autumn[/name], [name]Mary[/name] [name]Zinnia[/name], and [name]Mary[/name] [name]Laurel[/name]. I think I must love [name]Mary[/name] paired with some sort of nature name.
Unfortunately, I don’t care for [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] because it makes me think of marijuana.
[name]Mary[/name] is a great name plus there are so many nn’s to choose from. In my extended family there are lots of [name]Mary[/name]'s that don’t go by [name]Mary[/name]: [name]Polly[/name], [name]Molly[/name], [name]May[/name], [name]Maisie[/name], [name]Maime[/name]…
I don’t like hyphen names, I prefer double names. The hyphen makes it into one name, so Maryhelen instead of [name]Mary[/name] [name]Helen[/name]
Oh, and I started humming [name]Rick[/name] [name]James[/name]’ song “[name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name]” as soon as I read the first post (in case you didn’t know, it’s about marijuana)
I too think that [name]Mary[/name] is really spunky as I know a very spunky, loud, seventeen-year-old [name]Mary[/name]. Her first name is [name]Mary[/name] and her middle name is [name]Margarete[/name] (said just like [name]Margaret[/name]) and she sometimes goes by [name]Mary[/name] [name]Margaret[/name]. I don’t really like [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name], even though both are cute names alone, it only conjures up images of the shoes for me.
Honestly, I’ve never cared for the name enough to use it, but one of my best friends is [name]Mary[/name] [name]Hannah[/name](first and middle) She has always told me she doesn’t like her name very much. She is such a great friend and sweet person though, it makes my kind of like the name. I know one other [name]Mary[/name] who is in her teens. My cousin is [name]MaryBeth[/name] [name]Kathleen[/name] and I also know of a [name]Mary[/name] [name]Kate[/name]. I’ve always kind of liked the name [name]Mary[/name] [name]Kate[/name]. I think of the shoes when I hear [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name], but I do think it is cute! I like the suggestion of [name]Mary[/name] and [name]Jane[/name] with another middle in between!
I like [name]Mary[/name], and I like [name]Jane[/name], but I dislike [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name] very much.
I wouldn’t use [name]Mary[/name] myself but its a classic and not overused on little children. I only know one [name]Mary[/name] under 30.
I would use [name]Jane[/name] myself, but it tends to be drab and disappear as a middle.
The connotations of [name]Mary[/name] [name]Jane[/name] are not good and I would avoid that. If you must put [name]Jane[/name] in the middle I would use a variation on [name]Mary[/name], like [name]Rosemary[/name] or [name]Marigold[/name] or [name]Miriam[/name] or something to avoid references to marijuana, shoes, unpleasant penny candies, and Spider-[name]Man[/name].
I admittedly am very fond of [name]Rosemary[/name] and [name]Marigold[/name] in any case.
[name]Mary[/name] is fine but I wouldn’t use [name]Mary[/name]-[name]Jane[/name] (A-I don’t like compound names; B-I think of a drug:/) Though I like [name]Mara[/name] better and it is a form of [name]Mary[/name]; in the bible and same “bitter” meaning :).
