Mercedes

[1morewonthurt]

Victoria is being put on back burner for now (thank you by the way)

But my litto (grandmother) has just died (funeral was on the weekend) and that has thrown our names in the air. Now I would like to use her name in some way for DC.

Except she was spanish and her name : Mercedes.

And I think it may have been corrupted

Help ????

[MmeLindor.]

My condolences on the passing of your grandmother.

I am afraid that the name is always going to be connected to the car and seen as "chav" in UK.

Could you use it as a middle name? Or did your grandmother have a middle name?

[1morewonthurt]

Litto middle name was Dolores. but don't really thinks that helps

[Fixture]

It's a car.

How about Mersera, which comes from the names Mercedes and Sara? Or Marisa, which is a variant of Maria (the nam Mercedes is related to Mary/Maria).

[EdithWeston]

I think Mercedes is a great name, but would only work if you have a Soansh surname.

Lola is short for Loloita, which is short for Dolores. Any good?

Both Dolores and Mercedes are appellations of The Virgin. Perhaps Mary or Maria?

Or one of the other appellations - I'll have a look.

[mycatsaysach]

why not dolly as a middle name?

or mercy?

the only mercedes i know of was always called sadie

[SquishyCinnamonSwirls]

I love the name Dolores! I'd go with that as a middle name.

[SandStorm]

I know a couple of Mercedes and they are, without fail, shortened to Sadie. I love both the full name and the short name and don't think it's chavvy.

[SandStorm]

(and the car was named after the child)

[Rydwinhofficoffi]

Well Mercedes comes from our lady of mercy. So you could use Mercy. Or anything Mary like so Maria (María if you want true spanishy) if you want to keep the spanish thing.
Dolores apparantly comes rom Virgin Mary of Sorrows and short versions cold be Lola, Loli or Lolita.

[bruffin]

"It's a car."

But it was named after the daughter of Emil Jellinek who was on the board of the company that eventually became Mercedes Benz. It was a girls name before it was a car.

[Fixture]

Sure, but does the OP want to be having to explain this every time someone says "oh, that's a car isn't it?"

"It was a girls name before it was a car."

[catsrus]

my dd has a friend called Mercedes - and yes - it does get shortened to "Merc" but no-one really cares, i think it's a lovely name. (I like Victoria a lot too!)

I've got a short boring name - all I wanted when growing up was a LONG name so i could use different nicknames eg. if I'd been Katherine I could be Kathy, Kate, Kat, Katy..... depending on my mood :)

[MmeLindor.]

Of course it was a girl's name before it was a car, but the car is so well known that it would be the first thing people would say.

Would Johanna (God is merciful) be too much of a stretch.

[EdithWeston]

Here are some 'Marian' names:

Addolorata, Amparo, Angeles, Anunciacion, Annunziata, Angustias, Assunta, Asuncion, Azucena, Begona, Belen, Candelaria, Carmel, Concepcion, Concetta, Conchita, Conseja, Consuelo, Dolores, Encarnacion, Fatima, Immacolata, Immaculada, Lourdes, Luz, Milagros, Montserrat, Natividad, Nieves, Nunzia, Paz, Pilar, Presentacion, Remedios, Rosario, Socorro, Soledad, Stella

And some 'Mary' variants:
Marilyn, Marina, Maura, Moira, Marian, Manon, Mariette Miriam, Maris, Marissa, Marisol, Rosemary, Mariam

[Rydwinhofficoffi]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(given_name)
As both her names where Mary related you could pick another spanish mary related name eg Suela, Pura, Piluca. There are loads

[ThoseClementineShoes]

I think Mimi means grandmother, is there anything there?

I like Dolores as a middle name. Or Mercy.

[ShroudOfHamsters]

I would use either Dolores or Mercy as a middle name. Both lovely. I certainly think you could also get away with Mercy as a first name if you wanted to. Sorry to hear about your grandmother.

[mumofbumblebea]

am i the only person who immediately thought hollyoaks (i need to get a life!). sorry for the loss of your grandmother OP but i think it is a hard name to pull off here without been seen as chavvy. i quite like Dolores or Lola though, i knew a Dolores who went by Dolly, so cute! i think you need to consider as well what your grandmother thought about her name, if she wasn't keen herself i'm not sure she would want it used for her great-granddaughter. are there any names that you knew she loved that you would consider using?

[mumofbumblebea]

following from previous post, don't mean to sound like i'm downing the idea of naming your child after a relative, i think it is a lovely gesture

[1morewonthurt]

mum she loved her name - she was named after her grandmother.

Thats my thing it's either very very spanishy - I have a spanish fn and it has always cused people to do double takes as I don't look spanish. Or it is seemed as Chavvy even if I do like it.

Dolores just reminds me of old ladies. Lola I like but is it very popular? Lolita reminds me of well Lolita not so good. But I do like Loli.

I quiet like Mercy - Thats nice.

Also like the idea of going with the same ilk - eg after Our lady.

Really like Carmen and Pilar and Nieves and Nunzia.

Humm - this was far easy when it was just María as a mn. Because that is what you do - nothing to do with litto and I want something very her like/connected to her not just a Mary version. Though a name connected to our lady would be good and echo both her names.

[tiptoptally]

I love the name Mercedes, and the nn Sadie. It's just a shame about the car connection - but hey, at least it's a nice car! It's not Skoda...

Absolutely ADORE Mersera - just heard of it for the first time on this thread and it's jumped right to the top of my favourite name list! (for today).

If you went for the 'Mary' name link and your dd asked why you chose her name, it would be a lovely way to tell her about your grandmother, whilst still giving your daughter a name of her own. :)

[QueenVictoria42]

I think Mercedes is very nice, strong name. I quite like it. However I do know that people's first reaction is usually 'oh my god, what like the car?', to which I normally say no, it's Spanish (insert Spanish pronunciation) and they are usually placated but not always. I have a friend who's daughter is Mercedes and she is Mercy for short. I do like it, but I don't know if I would have the confidence to use it as a first name, especially without a Spanish surname or obvious Spanish background. I would not hesitate to use it as a middle name, with the explanation that she is named after her grandmother. Sure you might have to have the 'no she's not named after a car' conversation, but not nearly as much with a mn as you would with a fn. I wouldn't bother shortening it for a mn, just go ahead and use Mercedes in full. I think it is fun and interesting to have a different middle name with such meaning.

[sallysparrow157]

I worked with a lovely girl called Mercedes several years ago. However, she could be rather slow at her job and as such was known as Skoda... (I still like the name though!)

[DejaWho]

First thing that came to my mind was... Glee. Now, if you're a gleek you might not mind people hearing the name and thinking you are - or if you're my husband - you might be horrified people thought you watched it!

Taught a class with a Mercedes and a Porsche in once.

[rachel1970]

I know a lovely (Spanish) Mercedes and her name sounds beautiful and strong, just like her. It has been a name for much longer than Daimler Benz named a car after it.

If you name your dd Mercedes people will soon associate the name with her, not the car. Cute nicknames include Mercy, Sadie for example.

And, having just read the '4 in a class' thread with horror, I think we should all be more encouraging of different names. I also like your reason for choosing it.

(Porsche has never been a name, it has always been a car brand)