To name a sibling for Millie - Maggie?

[lill72]

Too similar or ok? Thoughts?

Why not go for Margaret? Then you have: Meg, Daisy, and Maggie as well.

It's so infantilising to adults to have only baby names. If you give your child the full name (Millicent, Margaret) then they have a choice for something a bit more dignified or serious if they wish.

I really like the name Maggie.

Margaret is a lovey name, and has a number of nicknames. Most of which are nicer than Maggie:
Meg/Meggie
Peg/Peggy
Margot
Rita
Daisy
Madge
Daisy
Pearl (Margaret means Pearl)
Mags

Millie and Maggie does have unfortunate connotations - Milly Molly Mandy. Also sounds more like two little dogs than two little girls. Sorry!

I think it's fine! And I like both names. But then I've gone for a know old fashioned name for ds (I'm in my 20s) so I'm probably your target audience tbh! If I have another ds the name I have planned starts with same initial. Not trying to be cute, just love the name and I think that's the most important thing

My dog's called Maggie.

Magpie is fine, if you like it.

Nice typo there

No I don't think Millie is good with Maggie.

I would put Millie with Florence, Alice, Charlotte, Harriet, Lucy, Beatrice, Annabel, Thea, Verity.

Maggie is awful. I know 3. All of them horrible, harsh women.

Think it's lovely but would also go for Margaret so you have more flexibility. Also I prefer to use proper names then shorten.

If you want a M name I think Margot or Madeleine are much more suited to Millie.

I don't have a problem with Maggie, I have a problem with people calling their dc's with the same initial.
It is just so bloody naff, twee, uninspiring and lazy.
Hate it.

Def would avoid Maggie....far too similar to Millie and too many Simpsons and Maggie Thatcher connotations!

We have a 4 yr old Margaret, always been Maggie but coulduse all the other nicknames if she wished. Named after hereto grandmothers, neither known as Margaret.
We love it, and have never ever had anyone mention the Simpson's or Thatcher, despite what those ahem..older posters above might say. Mind you, I'm 37 And I know the connections, to me its a cool, quirky, but also slightly trad name, and our gorgeous daughter suits it perfectly.
She does get called Maggie moo, mags, Magpie etc too though, I don't think I'd go for Millie for a sibling, mabye a longer name with possible shortening I'm pregnant with #2 at the moment, I like Katherine or Elizabeth for a sister.

Amelia and Margaret would be nice together I think. Is Millie the name on DD's birth certificate?

I'm 36 and would think of Mrs Thatcher the first time I heard the name Maggie but kids do grow into their own names quite quickly and you stop thinking of the associations.

I do have a v similar name to my DSis (both female versions of the same boy's name). It's a bit annoying with same first initial on post but you just grow used to it.

Name your children with names YOU like!

milly? molly, obviously. and the third? mandy. no other options are acceptable.

Maggie is a horrible name (sorry, poster above, who uses it for her child - I'm sure if I'd met your dd I'd like the name a whole lot more). Margaret is nice. but not with milly. is your milly 'milly', or an abbreviated 'mildred'? I knew a 'Mildred Winifred' (I always thought her parents must have hated her from birth). Could be Millicent, I suppose.

Naming your kids is very personal. I would keep it between you and your dp as there will always be someone who says 'oh really'

Am I alone in thinking that Millie and Maggie aren't all that similar? Yes they have similarities but they are also quite different when you say them.

(Millie is def more similar to Mollie / Molly which a few posters have suggested as an alternative to Maggie?)

Or am I missing something her?

Personally I wouldn't use both of those names as obviously they do have similarities and I think kids should have their own unique name

They will get post muddled when they're older and it will cause difficulties and resentments. Try for a different letter.

ditto the post thing

my dh and sons all have letter J. all children now grown up - and dh often opens DSs post by accident

millie and mollie sound like daytime kids tv puppets

i have a firm train of thought that pregnant women should not name their children, becuase they are largely insane in that department. wait until the child is born.

Posters who have mentioned Mollie and Mandy are being ironic, not suggesting them as alternatives.

Milly Molly Mandy was the heroine of a series of books en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milly-Molly-Mandy

and her full name was Millicent Margaret Amanada.

Oh right, I see!

Whoosh - went right over my head (the Milly / Molly connection!)

Maggie - no

Margaret - ok ish

Both put me in mind of Thatcher but Maggie has the added awfulness of making me hear Rod Stewart when I get the name.

Meg is lovely.

Sorry about the 'Magpie' typo. FWIW, I think Margaret is an awful name, old fashioned and stuffy, Molly sounds like a scullery maid, dog or a doll, and Maggie is great. But I am one of many random strangers, so pick what YOU like.

Can you imagine saying to a new friend "we really wanted to call her Maggie, but a woman I've never met on Mumsnet has a dog called Maggie, and a large number of other women I've never met on Mumsnet didn't like the name." The only possible response to this is SO?!

It's a normal, nice name, with no adverse connotations. It's not like you're calling her Bambi or Twinkle ... YOU like it, do it. You don't like it, don't do it.

DD1 is a Millie (Millicent).

Tbh I think all children make their name seem normal. Names I previously disliked have seemed fine once I meet a child with that name.