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AllthingsRosy · 2024-12-27T17:13:33+00:00

Help us decide on the spelling! It took long enough to choose her name but we now have options on the spelling 😫 - I didn’t expect this bit to be so hard😅 Please help 😂

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Emanwenym · 27/12/2024 23:42

That's a good one.
Someone wanting a Welsh name for their small house could call it Tŷ Bach.

FiloPasty · 27/12/2024 23:37

VegTrug · 27/12/2024 20:47

I would seriously rethink this. Mirin is a Japanese rice wine! Everyone will think you’ve named her after that. It is pretty sounding but so is mayonnaise…..

This has properly made me chuckle, mayonnaise is a lovely sounding name.
My old French teacher always talked about the house called Poubelle!

Harkinonnowhear · 27/12/2024 23:37

Your personal experience was not to call a child a name you didn’t know because she’d spend her life spelling it and then you suggested the same name again weird post in my opinion. Which is allowed you know. 🙄

ODFOx · 27/12/2024 23:33

Mirryn
Pretty!

TartanCulshie · 27/12/2024 23:26

I know a Mirin and she's awesome. And folk seem to realise she is an adult woman and not a rice wine.

Emanwenym · 27/12/2024 23:23

Mirryn is awful

blueshoes · 27/12/2024 23:22

Not Mirin. It is a Japanese sweet rice wine.

Warmmincepie · 27/12/2024 23:21

Harkinonnowhear · 27/12/2024 23:15

*I like Mirren but this will be a life time of spelling out her name for people.

I'd go for something more "traditional" like Miriam, Marion, Marianne. I also love Mairead and Muirann. I didn’t have a DD but if I did I would have chosen one of these names.*

This is a very strange thing to post.

Muirann (not spelt that way, because the ending rule as gaeilge is caol le caol, leathan le leathan) is actually the Irish spelling of the same name you are suggesting people couldn’t spell in the first line.

Sorry I misspelt Muireann. I know a couple of people named Muireann, never known a Mirren so excuse my ignorance. Not sure why it's such a "strange thing to post" when I was just offering my personal opinion. Which is allowed you know.🙄

mathanxiety · 27/12/2024 23:19

AllthingsRosy · 27/12/2024 20:43

Thanks everyone, much appreciated !

I should probably have said that we’re Scottish and from Glasgow so most folk around us know the name from the football team, the cathedral or Braveheart (although I think that’s Murrin) 😄

Also aware of the rice wine, I don’t think that puts me off that spelling though 🤔

I like it pronounced with an “in” and not an “en” at the end - so I guess that should rule out Mirren but that is the most popular way everywhere I’ve asked

Decisio decisions 😄

If you like the I sound, you could spell it Mirryn.

Though the I and E endings don't sound too different imo.

doodleschnoodle · 27/12/2024 23:19

Mirren is a pretty standard name here. No need to spend her life spelling it out, it's entirely normal here (n-east Scotland). DD1 has a Mirren in her class and I have a Mirren in my Brownies unit. Maybe if she moves to another country, but then that's the same with loads of names.

DaringRubyTraybake · 27/12/2024 23:18

GetyourheadoutoftheovenIris · 27/12/2024 23:15

Congratulations! You could go for Merryn, meaning joyful in Cornish.

Why would someone in Scotland choose a Cornish name over a Scottish name though?

TooManyBloodyMarys · 27/12/2024 23:17

Definitely Mirren. If you go with Mirrin she'll spend the whole time correcting everyone.

Harkinonnowhear · 27/12/2024 23:15

*I like Mirren but this will be a life time of spelling out her name for people.

I'd go for something more "traditional" like Miriam, Marion, Marianne. I also love Mairead and Muirann. I didn’t have a DD but if I did I would have chosen one of these names.*

This is a very strange thing to post.

Muirann (not spelt that way, because the ending rule as gaeilge is caol le caol, leathan le leathan) is actually the Irish spelling of the same name you are suggesting people couldn’t spell in the first line.

GetyourheadoutoftheovenIris · 27/12/2024 23:15

Congratulations! You could go for Merryn, meaning joyful in Cornish.

WithASpider · 27/12/2024 23:15

Our dd1 is Merren! In my defence I'd heard the name in Scotland but never seen it written.

I think I'd go for Mirren if it's the more common spelling where you are.

Warmmincepie · 27/12/2024 23:10

Mirin is a Japanese rice wine for cooking. So not even equivalent to Chardonnay but more like Red Wine Vinegar.

I like Mirren but this will be a life time of spelling out her name for people.

I'd go for something more "traditional" like Miriam, Marion, Marianne. I also love Mairead and Muirann. I didn’t have a DD but if I did I would have chosen one of these names.

DaringRubyTraybake · 27/12/2024 23:08

VegTrug · 27/12/2024 20:51

Everybody who sees her name written down will assume she’s Japanese or half Japanese. Also if you don’t spell it Mirin then they will also assume her parents just got the spelling of the rice wine incorrect 🍶 I don’t mean that to sound mean, I’m just giving my perspective. Merryn however is beautiful

This is nonsense 😂

Mirren is a lovely Scottish name OP, congrats!

Ikeameatballs · 27/12/2024 23:03

Mirren

Harkinonnowhear · 27/12/2024 23:02

Bloody love it. In Irish it is Muireann it is absolutely lovely. No help on a Scottish spelling. It has got me wanting to watch braveheart for the zillionith time.

doodleschnoodle · 27/12/2024 22:59

Mirren. We know a couple (Scotland) and they're both spelled that way. It's a lovely name and if you're in Scotland, will be totally understood.

Emanwenym · 27/12/2024 22:54

Highly unlikely that a male Scottish saint has a version of a Persian name for a woman.

oobedobe · 27/12/2024 21:45

our friends have a daughter called Mahrin I think it is a persian version, I've always like the sound of it.