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Maisie?

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JuniorMint · 30/11/2013 10:20

Hi,

Just wondering what people think of Maisie, but also- my cat's name is Millie... would Maisie be too similar?! (We tend to call the cat Mills...)

Thanks

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HavantGuard · 01/12/2013 22:26

Cloying? Saccharine?

toobreathless · 01/12/2013 22:22

& absolutely fine with the cat name! I wouldn't even think to connect the two.

toobreathless · 01/12/2013 22:21

I really don't like it sorry, nothing in particular and I think it's sweet on a toddler I just can't see it as a grown up name. It's too sickly sweet for me.

GideonKipper · 01/12/2013 17:38

CarryOnDancing · 01/12/2013 17:06

I'm not sure how well I'd imagine it working on an adult but that's possibly because I don't know any adult ones. I don't think it's overly popular but I would group it together with the Molly, Millie trend, which makes it's feel like it's popular. That would put me off but it's perfectly useable alongside your cat!

It works for little people but then I'm not sure, you could even say it's too cutesy?

I love irrational board rage!

GideonKipper · 01/12/2013 16:46

No.

Buttercup4 · 01/12/2013 16:40

Apologies Gideon please provide us all with a list of words you find acceptable

Mehrida · 01/12/2013 15:10

DS was going to be a Maisie. I love love love it.

Since having him I have learned about Maisy Mouse however Maisie will always be a cat from Morningside to me!

GideonKipper · 01/12/2013 13:34

Christ.

Cutesy must be the most overused word on this board.

Tedious.

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Buttercup4 · 01/12/2013 09:00

I haven't got a clue who 'Maisy Mouse' is.

It is a bit cutesy for my liking, but it's a nice name.

mydaftlass · 01/12/2013 08:55

There is a Maisie and a Macy in DDs class and they get mixed up. It used to make me think "mouse" but not so much now.

Fairylea · 01/12/2013 08:49

I like it.... I also know a Maisyne which I think is quite different.

MrsSippie · 01/12/2013 08:45

TessTackle · 30/11/2013 21:38

Yy Mattissy I'm called Maisie after my great aunt Margeret

TessTackle · 30/11/2013 21:37

MrsSippie Muv, is that you??

Mattissy · 30/11/2013 18:30

It's actually a nn for Margaret, so if you want a Sunday name too.

I preferred Maisy, which had been used for centuries too so not wrong or new fangled, as I knew someone with the surname Maisie and I just wanted slightly different.

MrsSippie · 30/11/2013 18:06

My Maisie is in her twenties now and it was never heard when she was little - getting popular now though, after years of her hating it, I think she's ok with it!

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JuniorMint · 30/11/2013 17:58

I wonder how long it'll be before someone names their baby Peppa... Just imagine it- Peppa Smith. I do know of baby/toddler Miley and Renesmee...

Maisy may be the mouse's name but at least it was a name before the mouse existed. Although having said that, I heard Wendy was invented by JM Barrie for his character in Peter Pan.

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TessTackle · 30/11/2013 17:43

Fwiw Maisy mouse used to give me the rage because her name is spelt wrong. Though there's a lovely dr Seuss book called daisy head Maisy

Bowlersarm · 30/11/2013 17:42

I agree with GideonKipper, I doubt there are any names that don't have a TV/book double so a character mouse called Maisie=no problem.

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JuniorMint · 30/11/2013 17:39

I'm not hugely familiar with Maisy Mouse, but I do like Maisie Comes To Morningside

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TessTackle · 30/11/2013 17:35

I'm a Maisie, I used to hate it; thinking it was cutesie as a pp said. But I get so many compliments on it now, and it's becoming more popular. I've grown to love it

Bowlersarm · 30/11/2013 17:32

I have never heard of Maisie mouse, whoever that may be.

I like it. Fine with Millie.

SouthBySouthWest · 30/11/2013 17:20

My best friend named their first born Maisie, and at first I thought it was way too cutsie. It has grown on her, but I would still worry that it's a bit of a cutsie name once she's grown up, given that she has nothing more formal to fall back on.

Plus, it seems to be getting quite popular here (Scotland), in case that's a factor.

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