Molly, or Mollie?

[TheDetective]

As above! Which spelling?

Molly

My little dd2 (dc5) is Molly

Mollie

I have a maisy and a milly

No one ever gets their names right and I still think milly should be spelt millie (but she started off as emily and seemed easier to be milly)

I do agree with the curly y at the end, a flourish to end.

Weird would never have pollie though?

oldpolicehouse - my neices are maizie and millie

i actually prefer your spellings to sil's though ......

My mum is in her fifties and is Molly. Think ie is a bit try hard!!

Well my niece is molly but my dad always spells it mollie, so I think it might be a age thing, like someone said. I like both.

Just think 30 years ago this conversation would have been about

Claire or Clare

Vikki or Vicky

My DN is Mollie.

My sister blows a gasket every time someone puts the Y spelling.

Just call her Molly and save your nerves.

Jayne or Jane.

Mollie

If you go with Mollie, you will have to forever say "it's Mollie with an ie". My DN is Clare and my SIL used to get annoyed when people spelled it with an i.

Whichever way you spell it, it's a great name.

But Mollie/Molly is a nn for Mary , as is Polly,so go with MARY and choose a spelling you like

Oh, and Molly would be cheaper, when you are buying those letters to stick on her bedroom door

I have a Millie, and she often gets cards etc to 'Milly'. It doesn't bother me in the slightest ...and more importantly, it doesn't bother Millie.

The only exception to this, IMO, is when the person knows how the name is spelt (ie my mum!!!) and yet they still spell it wrongly. But that's a whole different thread

If you're going to get raised blood pressure over people spelling your dc's names incorrectly, you need to call them all Bob.

Mollie/Molly was once a pet form of Mary - true. Also for Margaret.
However it has also been a name in its own right for well over 100 years, so think it is fine as it is too.

Mollie!

Molly is a lot more common, but a little bit wrong; a bit like Robby as opposed to Robbie

I did know about the Mary link, but didn't know about Margaret. I once new a very sweet old lady - Mollie - who was born in the early 1900's and she once told me she had been christened Mary. She also told me the correct spelling for Mollie/Molly is with an i and e. I'll go with Mollie's opinion.

Mollie. It looks nicer.

Molly definitely

Mollie is the Gaelic version, and Molly is the Irish / English version deriving from Hebrew origins. Molly is the original and Mollie is a variant, as is Mali, Molie, Moll, Molle, Mollea, Molley, Molli and Mollisa. Mali is the a welsh version.

Mollie gets my vote