Opinions on Marnie

[Catherinebee85]

DP loves Marnie

I'm not 100% sold on it but I do think it's pretty. I just worry that it's chavvy.

What do we think?

[piefacedClique]

It's pretty but first thing that comes to mind is geordie shore! Sorry x

[GinSwigmore]

I like it very much (film does not bother me).

[GinSwigmore]

^Hitchcock sprang to mind not GS (heathens!) <

[IllMetByMoonlight]

Hm. Feels like I ought to 'get it', but I don't. Rhymes with sarnie. Sounds like mardy , as in moody or temperamental. I'm usually super positive about baby names... What's got into me?

[SuperBeagle]

Sounds very bland to me. Like the person named Marnie would be a bland person. Not sure why this is my association with it (I don't know anyone named Marnie).

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

I love it, would have been ds3's name.

[TurboTheChicken]

I like it, When Marnie Was There was a favourite book when I was a child. Marnie

[Haudyerwheesht]

Love it

[LouisvilleLlama]

I do think it's chavvy but the only Marnie I know is the one from Geordie Shore who I saw on big brother

[ScarlettFreestone]

Beagle I know three people called Marnie (a child and a two adults) and none of them are in any way "bland".

In fact quite the opposite.

I think it's a lovely name OP, probably because I know three interesting, creative and vivacious Marnies!

[HerRoyalNotness]

I only know one, my cousin. She is a happy, outgoing, social woman that is a pleasure to be around.

But it seems like a nickname to me, even though it isn't.

[OutComeTheWolves]

I love it.

The only way I wouldn't use it is if you live in an area that uses 'our' when talking about people i.e. I'm going to see our sue tomorrow/tell our David I said hello etc etc. That's only because 'Our Marnie' sounds like 'Armani' which I do think is a chavvy name.

[mathanxiety]

IllMetByMoonlight Fri 21-Apr-17 00:58:40
Hm. Feels like I ought to 'get it', but I don't. Rhymes with sarnie. Sounds like mardy.

Makes me think 'smarmy' too.

I don't get this name either. It's like a sarnie that will bite you back.

[Jooni]

I quite like it. It's in the same camp as Edie, Sadie, Connie, Elsie, etc. to me - vintage revival nicknames, very on-trend but not actually popular individually as there are so many different ones out there. Not "chavvy" (MN won't like that you used this word!) to me at all.

Lily Allen has a Marnie Rose (and an Ethel). Personally, I prefer Mamie - Meryl Streep has one of those.

[Orangebird69]

Awful. All I can picture is a woman in a cheap velour tracksuit, Croydon face lift type pony tail (with greasy hair) and Elizabeth Duke creole earrings.

[2014newme]

I used to love the marnie books when I was a child

[Silverdream]

Marnie - geordie shaw

[KoalaDownUnder]

I don't 'get it' either.

It doesn't have the vintage vibe of Sadie etc, for me, at all. I went to school with several Marnies in the 70s and 80s.

Reminds me more of Melanie.

[RedStripeIassie]

I think it's nice. Marnie would be a sweet tomboy who grows up to be a fun but sophisticated women who wears her hair in a short choppy bob. (Never even met a Marnie so no idea where I'm getting this image from ).

[WildCherryBlossom]

The only one I've ever known was a nickname - short for Marianne. She was very beautiful.

[Montsti]

Not a fan as it seems like a nickname but with no option of a full name..although I don't think it's chavvy but I've never watched Geordie Shore...

[user1492757084]

Marnie is the name of my niece.
She often has to spell out her name. It's cute but is it too much like a nick name?

Other ideas - Marcelle, Miranda, Mietta, Meghan or Margot.

[namechange20050]

I think it's lovely. I only know it from the Hitchcock film though. I've never watched geordie shore though. Not chavvy at all imo.

[Ohyesiam]

Sounds very American . which may not be a problem ( or may be an asset) for you.

[MrsMeeseeks]

I love it ! It's kind of film-star glamorous without being too showy.