Marianne?

[Lyrebird]

We are considering this for DD2 - we are looking for a 3 syllable name that is "old-style" feminine without being frilly.

What are your thoughts?

yes, you have it, val.

Although my favourite would be Julia

I have never heard of a JOOLyet - do they really exist?

Mariana is getting really fussy.

Well if I were called Juliet I wouldn't like it if people called me Julie ETTTTT

Also, I was finding a teeny allotment of common taste with Pointy. But then as it turns out, we agree that Mariana is way over board.

Yes, you can get JULiet.

Same with Vivien. Very nice. Vivienne kills it.

I like Vivienne! I am obviously frillier than you two.

Don't think my dds are especially over-frilly though...hopes....

I like Marianne - pretty name and quite unusual. I think I've only ever met one (a good friend when I was at primary school)

I quite like OTT and frilly. Heard of a baby Juliana the other day which even to my frilly tastes is a bit over blown. Tennyson obviously didn't agree re: Mariana, Valium. Like Juliet & Vivien (but hate Viv).

Love it. Also love Miriam.

Love it - I have a 30 yo friend called that and she's LOVELY!

I think Marianne is neither fish nor fowl, can't make up its mind between Marie and Anne; sounds like something a committee came up with because they wanted to go to lunch.

How about
Josephine
Leonore
Margeurite
Sylvia

"Marian has a very large, matronly chest and fat ankles.

Marianne is delicate and porcelain skinned."

I hate to disagree as I am a Marianne and would love to be delicate and porcelain skinned but, sadly the first description is scarily accurate!

To the poster who worried that Marianne will spend her life correcting people who call her Marion; I can confirm that this is true. I have been called Marion, Marian, Maureen, Mary Anne and even Marion-Anne (this by one very confused neighbour who lived 'till I was in my 30s and could never get a handle on Marianne.)

Having said all that, I love my name.

Lovely :)

Any name name-checked by Mr L Cohen = deeply cool name

Although it is slightly irritating when someone hears your name and starts to warble "So long, Marianne...." and thinks he is soooooo original!

Yes, that would be.

Lovley name.

Great name.

Beautiful name

Yes, very lovely.

Christabel is another favourite of mine.

I am reminded of porcelain skin too, combined with long dark brown/auburn hair.
I always see a Waterhouse painting im my mind when I hear the name.
Feminine without having bimbo qualities.

DD1 is Marianne Catherine Isabella :)

Marianne = Leonard Cohen song, also the embodiment of the French Revolution. Quite popular with catholics (although we aren't catholics) due to it being a combination of both Mary and Anne (St Anne was Mary's mother)

She constantly gets other names, but not as much as me (Alicia) or DD2 (Emmeline) so, you know, we're all in it together.

Sometimes we do regret giving our children such revolutionary names when they are banding together against the oppressor (ie refusing to go to bed)

Marianne (as in the French symbol) may have first been pictured nursing Romulus and Remus, which is pretty cool. She often is pictured with one tit out at the front of battle.

Ha!
Nothing wrong with tit in art just not arse in the air, spray tanned 'tittie' internet names which Marianne does not, thankfully, convey.