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Mary-Jane

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Belugagrad · 05/04/2014 07:01

Do you like it? Only problem I see is explainIng it's got a gap in it or not. Want to know if others like it. Thanks.

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badtime · 06/04/2014 17:47

Sarah-Jane or Mary-Ann are similar, if you want to avoid comments about shoes or drugs.

I dislike Mary-Kate - it would traditionally have been 'Mary Katherine/Catherine', shortened to Mary-Kate.

cece · 06/04/2014 16:53

How about Jane Mary?

I think both names are lovely and either as stand alone names as a first name are fab.

Chloerose75 · 06/04/2014 16:47

Druggy connotations, and the shoes

I do like both names separately

LePetitPont · 06/04/2014 16:42

My first association was MJ from Spider-Man, so quite cool. Then the shoes, in a 1940s, Enid Blyton kind of way. No weed or vaginas here!

Fwiw, Mary Claude is awesome, Tess.

TessOfTheBaublevilles · 05/04/2014 15:37

DD2 is Mary, although we do sometimes call her Mary Claude, with Claude being her first middle name. (Claude is actually a gender neutral name over in France, and was after my French-born grandfather, so we haven't gone crazy). However, her first name is "just" Mary, which I think is beautiful as a standalone name.

You could always use a middle name that works with Mary, and use is a pet form, like we do with our daughter.

EverythingCounts · 05/04/2014 14:05

I like it. Agree that Mary alone is lovely too as is Mary-Kate, though that might make you seen like a full on Olsen twins fan.

Theonlyoneiknow · 05/04/2014 13:59

Mary on its own is lovely

BikeRunSki · 05/04/2014 12:32

Oh what's the matter with Mary Jane?
It's lovely rice pudding for dinner again
She hasn't an ache and she hasn't a pain
Oh what's the matter with Mary Jane?

This verse is the reason why my mum uses "Mary Jane" to mean "grumpy little madam". Also shoes, drugs, dank is as has been pointed out.

MichaelFinnigan · 05/04/2014 12:30

Are you a Rastafarian?

EmpressOfJurisfiction · 05/04/2014 12:30

It is pretty. My first thought is Lovely rice pudding for dinner again.

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 05/04/2014 12:27

I think it's nice, although it does have a connection to weed, and is a type of shoe, so I think that would put me off. It's a very pretty name though.

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BNmum · 05/04/2014 11:40

Mary is lovely. I'm with lechers, Mary-Jane is what we called our vaginas and for that reason I wouldn't use both names together.

Meglet · 05/04/2014 11:38

You can't call a child after a drug.

Mrswellyboot · 05/04/2014 11:32

Why not just Mary

Then as a middle name I would go for Claire

Floggingmolly · 05/04/2014 11:31

circa 1940.

Floggingmolly · 05/04/2014 11:31

The heroine in a Ladybird book.

everlong · 05/04/2014 11:27

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Ludways · 05/04/2014 11:24

Ganj

Anjou · 05/04/2014 11:24

^ smiley face fail.

Grin

That's better.

Anjou · 05/04/2014 11:23

I too think of marihuana and then shoes but also of Mary-Jane (MJ) from Spider-Man. If you really love it, focus on the Spider-man connection. ??

elliebe13 · 05/04/2014 11:20

No, it means weed.

LumpySpacePrincessOhMyGlob · 05/04/2014 11:18

I wouldn't, It's slang for Marajuana or a shoe.

indiana7 · 05/04/2014 11:11

Mary-Kate is gorgeous, timeless & elegant would prefer to Mary-Jane. Love Mary on it's own too, definitly overdue a comeback!

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