Mary/Names like Mary

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Both DH and mine nans where/are Marys, we want somehow to include it in DC name (if girl obviously)

But as a first name it's just to - bluh.
We could use it as a middle name just as Mary

But have MN got any other names that are like/related to/variations of Mary to use as a first name.

Oh and not Marie (a hideous aunt - shudders at thought)

Maire (my-reh)

Meredith (I know one who calls herself Merry)

Moya

I love Marianne, Maribel and Mariella

Mary just Mary has a certain impact though. It's so simple and unpretentious that it does stand out amongst a sea of Julias and Amelias and Isabellas and so on.

I like Mairead but that is Margaret not Mary.

I love Mary too, something refreshingly unusual but unpretentious about it, and because you can't really shorten it. Dd1's middle name is Mary re her great-grandma.

Mariah?

FWIW I like Mary on its own.

May
My gran was Mary, but always known as May

Mhairi (varee) is gealic for Mary :-)