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Help baby name dilema

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Robyn789 · 24/12/2021 02:06

What’s everyone thoughts on Marlow or Monty for our boy born 4 days ago? We’ve had awful trouble deciding on a name and it’s taken us this long to find a common ground on two.
His older sister is called mabelle. It wasn’t intentional to have them both with an M name it seems M names are what we like 🙈

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SummerLew · 24/12/2021 19:50

Marlowe seems very celeb-y to me. Much prefer Monty - Montgomery/Montague or just Monty (although I do think uncle!).

Juanbablo · 24/12/2021 19:46

I love Marlow. Monty says "dog's name" to me.

Rrrob · 24/12/2021 19:46

I think of Marlowe as a girl name, so Monty.

PizzasPlease · 24/12/2021 19:41

Marlow sounds like a girl's name.
Monty makes me think of a mole.

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 24/12/2021 19:40

Of the 2, I'd pick Monty - I might assume it was short for Montague or Montgomery but it's fine alone too imo. I see it as a perhaps slightly upper class sounding men's name (Monty Don etc) rather than a dogs name?

Marlow is the opposite in that it sounds a bit trendy/downmarket to me and also very unisex if that matters as well (it may get frequently misspelt as the "girls" Marlowe).

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Robyn789 · 24/12/2021 19:23

Thank you all for your comments! Still undecided 🙈

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frogswimming · 24/12/2021 17:25

I think Marlow sounds like a girls name (even though maybe it isn't without the e at the end).

I like Montgomery with Monty as a nickname but not Monty on its own.

itssquidstella · 24/12/2021 17:00

I’ve taught a lovely male Marlow and a lovely Monty (short for Montagu, which is better). I think both are nice!

BiscuitLover3678 · 24/12/2021 16:54

Marlow

WhoppingBigBackside · 24/12/2021 16:48

Did I go wrong naming my DC Fido, Samuel Whiskers and Flopsy???

Scirocco · 24/12/2021 16:35

Montgomery with Monty for short would be lovely.

SummaLuvin · 24/12/2021 16:17

@Hello606

I like Marlow, but Monty is a dogs name
Dog comments show up on this forum quite often and I find them quite bemusing. I know dogs called Robert, Miriam, Ruby, Millie, and Digby. Unless someone is thinking of calling their child Spot or Bones then your personal associations with canines are irrelevant to the OP.
Luredbyapomegranate · 24/12/2021 16:05

Could you do Montgomery nn Monty? That's rather lovely.

Not so keen on Marlow, and I think it's often a girls name??

Hello606 · 24/12/2021 12:56

I like Marlow, but Monty is a dogs name

Luckingfovely · 24/12/2021 11:44

Monty is brilliant!

Marlow-on-Thames?

KirstenBlest · 24/12/2021 09:26

There was a Monty in the Births announcements in Saturday's Daily Telegraph. Not short for anything

GAW19 · 24/12/2021 09:23

My dog is called Monty Grin

1940s · 24/12/2021 09:19

@Double3xposure

Monty is good if you are posh and it’s short for a Montague.

Otherwise Milo

Posh? Cringe.
SummaLuvin · 24/12/2021 09:18

Montgomery, Monty for short. Very distinguished.

Double3xposure · 24/12/2021 09:03

Monty is good if you are posh and it’s short for a Montague.

Otherwise Milo

AuntieStella · 24/12/2021 08:51

Marlowe is the playwright/poet and I've only ever known it on a boy (and I really don't take to surname names in girls)

Monty seems a bit too much of a nickname to stand alone, but I like the long forms

PearlHart · 24/12/2021 08:49

Monty is the best name for a boy/man. Marlow is a town.

Ikeameatballs · 24/12/2021 08:47

Monty

Freddie456 · 24/12/2021 08:44

Monty. I know a little boy called Monty and he’s lovely and his name suits him really well.

ofwarren · 24/12/2021 08:30

Monty is the best of the 2.
I would have Montgomery or Montague on the birth certificate though.