If you have a Mary, where are you from?

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I’m considering the name Mary for my next child, but have heard on MN that it's sometimes used as slang for vulvas/vaginas.

Which parts of the country use 'mary' as slang? And which don't? I didn't hear it growing up in Surrey...

Irish here and my friends from Dublin call their bits their Mary.

I'm in Dublin and I've NEVER hear Mary used for vagina, what the heck- .

Fionnuala is a vagina. Everybody knows that.

South Wales , Mary is also used here as well as Foof.

I’ve heard it used as a name and euphemism in Oxfordshire, generally among the over-seventies though.

I know a couple of primary-school-aged Marys in Wales. I’ve never heard it used as a slang name like that.

Belfast friend calls hers her Mary.

I've heard Mary for fanjo occasionally in Leics.

The only time I ever heard it was on 'One Born Every Minute', when they were filming in Liverpool.

I'm South Wales, never heard it called a Mary here. However foof, as per a pp, is very much in use.

I think Mary is a lovely name. If you're unsure, what about Mari or Mairi?

I’m in Somerset. Obviously I’ve heard it called “Fanny”. I’ve also heard “Minnie” and once, “Rosie”. But never Mary...

Irish and I have never heard anyone called their vagina a ‘Mary’.

Everyone my parents generation in Ireland is a Mary, first name or middle name. I know 2 men whose middle names are Mary. If I met a child called Mary, it wouldn’t occur to me to think of a vagina. I have heard it called a mini but I personally never use slang to describe it. Until I started using mumsnet I’d never heard it referred to as a fanjo either.

I’m Essex. Never heard of this; my youngest daughter and oldest aunt are Mary.

NE England here and have definitely heard Mary used as a name for bits.

I'm in Gloucestershire. I'm a teacher and taught a lovely girl called Mary last year (she's 19 now) Never heard of it as a euphemism. She certainly didn't get teased.

Liverpool here and contrary to a PP, never heard or used it as word for fanny.
Big catholic family and loads of Aunty Marys. If it's not a first name, it's their second name.
Know a young Mary, about 11 now, and always liked it for her. Seems quite cool somehow.

Yorkshire, never heard it used as slang for anything except perhaps Mary-Johanna for marijuana but that's pretty out-dated now.

I only know one young Mary, she will be about 10 now I think.

Heard is used as a euphemism for lady bits

I'm Irish and I know millions of Marys. It's quite an old fashioned name though. You never hear of a baby Mary these days.

I've never known anyone to use it as slang for anything - it would be pretty insulting to all the Marys. Not to mention confusing.

Fionnuala is a vagina. Everybody knows that.

Really?

Another Catholic here too, I know loads of Mary's but never heard anyone call their vagina one.

MIL, DM & SIL are all Mary, as are 4 of my mum's school friends. DM always thinks I know which one she's talking about 😂. It's a great name. We're home counties/east.

So in areas where it is used for vagina, is nobody actually called Mary then? Are there entire parts of the country with only vaginas called Mary and no actual people?

Never heard of the fanny thing in london.
My Granny is called Mary.
Makes me think of bloody marys.

And Jesus' mum of course.

My Nan was from Derbyshire and called it a Mary and as you got older a hairy Mary! So it’s a name I would avoid.