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ovulationleavesmetired · 2023-11-11T01:51:53+00:00

I love Moe for a girls name but would prefer a longer version too. I know 'Ramona' is one option...can anyone else make any other suggestions?

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theduchessofspork · 11/11/2023 12:16

SeethroughDress · 11/11/2023 11:39

Does your niece live in a Gaeltacht? Does she even live in Ireland?

I’m an Irish speaker. As I said in my post, if you’d read it, it is an (archaic) term of endearment, but its primary meanings are biological ones.

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/Cuisle

It’s the kind of nonsense Irish-Americans tended to come up with in times past.

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I’d assume she doesn’t live in a Gaeltacht or even Ireland, thus no one she knows would have a clue what the name meant and thus in turn she doesn’t give a shit.

Pippa has a dodgy meaning in some languages, that doesn’t stop it being popular in English speaking world and Northern Europe

Names travel, language changes etc etc

theduchessofspork · 11/11/2023 12:12

Christonskiis · 11/11/2023 11:48

Morven.

I only know one Mo and that's her name, I've never met another Morven but do quite like it.

Oh yes this is nice too

theduchessofspork · 11/11/2023 12:12

It’s very pretty

Any of the Mary names - because Mo makes me think Molly -

So Mary, Marianne, Molly, Polly, Maria, Marion, Maryam

Marsali is nice and unusual and has a similar vibe.

Otherwise Morwenna and Imogen are nice.

I don’t think she’d thank you for Maureen, Moana is moany, and Marlowe is one of those once trendy names that’s going rapidly south.

Agree it’s Mo rather than Moe for a girl

Cornishmumofone · 11/11/2023 12:08

Morgelyn
Morvoren
Monet
Morven
Morgan
Morwenna

greglet · 11/11/2023 12:04

I love Marlow(e).

SeamsLegit · 11/11/2023 11:54

No, and yes...
So?
Loads of names have primary meanings... Still used as names!
Ruby? Skye? River?
OP asked for suggestions, I gave her one. A real life one from my life.
Wow, you speak Irish, that's amazing!!! Well done you!! I am so impressed.
Archaic? And?? Do you make the rules on expiry dates for names?
Bore off, pedant. You're some craic

HangTheJib · 11/11/2023 11:52

Moe Tucker from the Velvet Underground is a Maureen.

Christonskiis · 11/11/2023 11:48

Morven.

I only know one Mo and that's her name, I've never met another Morven but do quite like it.

SeethroughDress · 11/11/2023 11:39

SeamsLegit · 11/11/2023 11:34

Plenty of things weren't originally used as a name, my grown up niece is called Mocuisle, my Irish speaking, retired teacher Granda (90) agreed it is indeed a term of endearment "my darling".
So it IS used as a name (legal, yes, on birth certificate!) so... Really, yeah though 😁

Does your niece live in a Gaeltacht? Does she even live in Ireland?

I’m an Irish speaker. As I said in my post, if you’d read it, it is an (archaic) term of endearment, but its primary meanings are biological ones.

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/Cuisle

It’s the kind of nonsense Irish-Americans tended to come up with in times past.

Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): Cuisle

Everything about 'Cuisle' in the Ó Dónaill Irish-English Dictionary

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/Cuisle

SeamsLegit · 11/11/2023 11:34

Plenty of things weren't originally used as a name, my grown up niece is called Mocuisle, my Irish speaking, retired teacher Granda (90) agreed it is indeed a term of endearment "my darling".
So it IS used as a name (legal, yes, on birth certificate!) so... Really, yeah though 😁

elliejjtiny · 11/11/2023 11:19

Morayo - pronounced Mor-ie-oh

OldTinHat · 11/11/2023 11:18

The Mo I know is called Maureen.

SeethroughDress · 11/11/2023 11:16

SeamsLegit · 11/11/2023 11:03

Mocuisle
Mo-cush-la (irish)
"my heartbeat"

Really not, though. The primary meaning is ‘vein’. ‘Cuisle mhór’ is artery, and it can mean pulse, or be used for heartbeat, but also wrist (presumably because of veins being close to the surface), or forearm. Yes, it does feature in the expression ‘a chuisle mo chroí’ (literally ‘o pulse of my heart’, meaning something like ‘my heart’s dearest’), but it isn’t used as a name, other than on those demented Baby Name sites which make frankly mad claims for ‘Irish names’.

Berlinlover · 11/11/2023 11:15

I immediately thought of Moe from the Three Stooges.

SeamsLegit · 11/11/2023 11:03

Mocuisle
Mo-cush-la (irish)
"my heartbeat"

Oldhag5 · 11/11/2023 10:56

Momoore

All2Well · 11/11/2023 09:32

I know a Moe in her 20s, she's called Moesha (Mo-ee-sha).

Moe can be short for Molly, Morag, Morwenna...

LoreleiG · 11/11/2023 08:58

Moët 😂

Aydel · 11/11/2023 08:52

I think Marjorie is overdue a revival.

SheilaFentiman · 11/11/2023 08:41

Molly.

Whatever you choose, your DD may end up using a different name (eg Imogen becomes Immy,

Eledamorena · 11/11/2023 08:41

Also, I know a Japanese girl named Moe, I can't figure out how to write it phonetically for you but she pronounces it like Moët, the champagne, but without the T. (Mo + letter 'a' sound). Not sure I'm making sense here!!

Eledamorena · 11/11/2023 08:38

I think it could be used for any name starting with M, but then two of my kids have nicknames that are not at all obvious from their full names. One evolved unplanned (I actually had a nickname in mind but this other one just happened!) and the other I planned and used from birth. Some people don't know her real name, I don't think, and wouldn't guess it from her nickname.

I like it, by the way!

LastNightIDreamtIWasAtManderleyAgain · 11/11/2023 08:35

Margo
Morella
Moriah
Morley
Anemone
Montgomery

aintnospringchicken · 11/11/2023 08:34

I know 3 women who are known as Mo.One is short for Maureen and the other two are Morag.

coliqua · 11/11/2023 08:33

Moireach, Mór, Molly