Juno or Marianne

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We're expecting our second girl in November and these two names are my current favourites - just wanted to know what people thought.

If you absolutely hate either of them, can you say why?

Love Juno and I am considering it for a girl myself!! Marianne is a little boring in comparison IMO. What is your other dd called.....don't have to say I just very nosy!

Love Juno, like Marianne, it's a good grown up name - also like the nickname Marnie.

She's called Tessa.

I worry Juno is a bit trendy. I absolutely want to avoid anything which will date - so basically anything which has got popular quite quickly. I don't have a problem with popular classic names - I like Elizabeth and Charlotte for instance.

Ooh, Marnie, that's nice. I couldn't think of any decent nn for Marianne, was toying with Molly, but it's a stretch. And of course she WOULD get called Maz or similar in her teens.

I don't thnk Juno would be considered trendy at all, even after the film it didn't catch onto the mainstream baby naming which I was terrified that it would cos it would have ruined it for me. If you look at the baby name stats over the last few years on dark greener.com that may help you! Tessa is also lovely!

I would be singing both of these everyday :o

I like Marnie though

I just looked it up only 30 baby girls named Juno in great Britain in 2010!! Defo to faddy or trendy!!

love the name juno :) marianne i don't like so much, sounds a little prissy to me.. but that is just me.

That should be defo NOT faddy or trendy!

I love Marianne. Juno is quite nice.

I remembered Marnie from this book When Marnie Was There , brilliant children's book.

Sorry OP, but I'm not too fond of Juno or Marianne.

Juno because I just don't like the sound: a bit too hard to my ears. I prefer Juliette, Julianne, Julianna.

Marianne is a bit too 'old' sounding (a friend's MIL in her seventies is Marianne. A colleage of mine in her 60s is Marie - pronounced 'Mah-ree') though I know so-called 'old lady' names are becoming fashionable again. I much prefer Marnie as the given name. It feels younger and fresher. Lovely meaning, too.

It's probably that our tastes are quite different which is the bottom line on why I dont really like the names (wouldn't say I 'hate' them) but I thought I'd give my input as you asked.

Juno - it's not a trendy name, Cornish, it's the name of a Roman Goddess.

Marianne on the other hand is just a silly version of Miriam. Miriam is a perfectly respectable Hebrew name, of course. But Marianne is just bleargh

I like both but prefer Juno I think.

Marianne is quite elegant though and reminds of the great Leonard Cohen song and of Sense and Sensibility.

Hmm, lots to think about there. Thanks very much for the responses.

Think I am veering towards Juno. Maybe with something conservative as a middle name in case she wants something less unusual. Elizabeth perhaps.

How about Mamie as an alternative to Marianne, though I still prefer Juno 100%!!

Marianne.Juno has a horrid sound.

HopefullyRecovering - I didn't say it was a trendy name but thanks for trying to educate me

Anyway, even if it has a classical origin a name can still be trendy.

Love Marianne, classy because of Sense and Sensibility. How about Maggie for short?

Also Marianne Faithfull is still rocking in her 70s - she led Mick Jagger astray don't you know?
Marion would be bleurgh, Marianne is like a pretty French combo of Marie and Anne.

Sorry Cornish, I was confusing you with Fruit :)

I love Marianne. Miriam is lovely too and Miri for a nickname.

Juno is a bit try hard imo.

Juno, of course!

Marianne is my MIL ...

Oh, oh , oh

Cornish -I read 'When Marnie Was There' at primary school and never forgot it. I've never met anyone else who remembers it

I rather like Marianne.

Oh my God you can buy it