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Down to top 5, got to make a decision!

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 06/04/2016 17:58

Stuck between Beatrix, Dorothy, Harriet, Marianne and Matilda for baby due very soon! Surname is double barrelled with lots of T's in it, so I think that Matilda probably doesn't work with it but not sure.

Would like to know if you hate/love any of these names, and if so, why. Also would be interested in nicknames used for Marianne (so far thought of Mari, Maz, and Annie but the others have much more nickname potential).

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peachypips · 08/04/2016 22:23

Love Marianne! Makes me think of Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility. Very very romantic heroine.

ems942 · 08/04/2016 22:07

Ari would be a great nickname for Marianne

Olbersparadox · 08/04/2016 21:19

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 08/04/2016 19:05

Sounds like Marianne is the clear winner! Thanks everyone :D

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oleoleoleole · 08/04/2016 16:36

Beatrix will spend her life having her name mis spelled. I know a marianne whose nn is ski as they put the ski on the end of the name!!!

Flowerrr · 08/04/2016 16:24

Matilda
Dorothy
Harriet
Marianne
Beatrix

Cerseirys · 08/04/2016 15:17

Beatrix, Harriet and Dorothy sound like a trio of batty maiden aunts from Edwardian times, sorry OP, but Marianne is pretty.

Indecisiveness · 08/04/2016 14:57

Marianne or Harriet.

Don't like the others, sorry, especially Susan.

Prefer Beatrice to Beatrix and Susannah to Susan.

Narp · 08/04/2016 12:38

Marianne

I much prefer Susannah to Susan

Don't like the others, sorry

SugarDiabetes · 08/04/2016 11:44

Love Marianne and Susanna/h

*Disclaimer - I have a Susannah of my own, known as Susie, Susie-Anna, Zan and Zanna!

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 08/04/2016 11:34

I think so! I guess there are lots of Susans that are young grannies now.

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squoosh · 08/04/2016 11:22

Susan will be 2026's Isabelle.

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 08/04/2016 11:11

Totally take the point about Susan! I think it will come back eventually though :) Looks like most people like Marianne best - that will please DH as that's his favourite!

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sonlypuppyfat · 08/04/2016 10:48

My grandma was a Dorothy she ended up being called Doll

Voteforpedr0 · 08/04/2016 10:45

Matilda is ok, Tilly or Tilda for short ? The others are terrible

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pilates · 08/04/2016 10:20

Beatrix

Dorothy and Susan are just awful.

joyfulworld · 08/04/2016 08:36

I love Marianne.

cheapredwine · 08/04/2016 07:07

Sorry OP, that ^ was before reading whole thread, see it's already been suggested! I knew a Marianne who went by Marnie, really lovely IMO.

cheapredwine · 08/04/2016 07:05

Marnie as a nn for Marianne?

minipie · 07/04/2016 23:13

Marianne! Lovely name, sadly my DH vetoed it for our girls

You could call her Mari ("marry") for short which would be sweet. Or Mimi, Min, Mina...

NadiaWadia · 07/04/2016 22:54

I don't think Susan is awful at all. I quite like it, more than Beatrix actually. The trouble is that it was massively overused in the 60s (I went to school with loads of them!) and so now is obviously associated in some people's heads with women of around my age (50). But in the future it will no doubt be regarded again as the classic English name that it is. It's just that at the moment a lot of people are not quite ready for it to come around again. I'm not particularly fond of Sue as a nickname, though. I agree that Susanna/h is gorgeous and could be a compromise?

But if not I would still go for the brilliant Marianne.

KaraokeQueenOfTheNorth · 07/04/2016 22:16

I like Marianne or Dorothy

mydogeatsnutstoo · 07/04/2016 22:09

Didn't see Susan - awful, sorry but like Susannah!

Agree the Leonard Cohen song Marianne a great reason to go for that!

Chookford · 07/04/2016 18:16

Dorothy or Beatrix are lovely! I love old fashioned names though! ( my girls are Nellie and Mabel)

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