Girls' names which start with (the sound) Mari- or Meri-

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Just that really.

What do we think of:

Marion/an
Merryn
Merry
Marina
Marika
Mari

?

Not pregnant, just fantasising about a future child. Multicultural family so could pull off an 'unusual' spelling.

Meryl
Meredith
Maria
Marianne
Miriam

Marnie?

well my dd is Merryn so that gets my vote

Merryn is v nice

Merryn is lovely
Love Merry too as a nn for Meredith
Marianne is pretty if wanting a literary Austen name

Mariketa I saw on another thread.

Merryn is lovely

Do you need to be Cornish to use it, do you think?

Mariana
Marisa
Marietta
Marigold
Marika (love this name)

Mariella
Marina
Melania (meh LAH nee ah)

Oops, forget the last one!

Marilena (marry leh nah)

Meryl
Merel
Merryn

I like Maritsa

Bloody iPad I meant mariska

Marisol
Miriam

I know people by the following names:

Meriel
Marissa
Mercy
Mariella
Marianne
Marina
Maria

Mariella, Mariposa & Marin.

I know a marianne that gets called Mari most of the time

Maribel
Marinel
Marielena

and
Marketa
Marlies
Maris
Marit
Marlene (as in Dietrich)
-- which miss your specification but are nice imo.

I know a Marilu, half Italian shortened from Maria-Louise

Merixel (pn merichel, Catalan)

Mariamne

No No not Marisol. It sounds like a low-fat spread or a psoriasis unguent.

I have never heard Merryn before. I like it - I think.

No-one has actually said Mary yet!

WineOhWhy, where is the emphasis in Marina? MA- reen -a? We would pronounce it with equal emphasis on all syllables, to sound more like the old mariner. Would that be confusing?

I think that would be odd. and it would confuse people re: spelling.

It probably would, eh. Not being contrary btw, that's actually how it's pronounced in dh's mother tongue (Japanese). We'd be forever correcting the pronunciation.

Not Muriel.

Marisa - I know a Mari-SS-a and a Mar-EE-sa. Second is Spanish pronunciation.

I would say Marina like Marine-a.