Marlowe ?

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What do you think?

I don't love or hate it, it's somewhere inbetween. It doesn't sound like a cutesy baby name which is good as they don't stay babies for long, and to me it sounds and looks like a name that belongs in a Charles Dickens novel :-)

Love it. For a girl, presumably?

Place name not person name

My best friend has (almost) decided to call her baby boy this name. She's asked me and I have to say I'm really not fond. I was hoping I'd come on here and you'd all tell me it was lovely.

Marlow (without an e) is a very common surname around my area so I would say no I'm afraid, although it's not terrible!

It's horrid.

Sienna Miller has just called her daughter Marlowe, it will probably have a bit of a surge, much in the way that the name Sienna sky rocketed.

I like it. I know a 4-yo boy called Marlowe.

I'm with squoosh on this one. I'm a big Sienna Miller fan, but not so much of a fan that I'd name a baby after hers. If I hear of any babies I know named Marlow(e), then I would think it's a lame Miller rip-off. She didn't invent the name, but it's unusual enough to associate with Sienna (unlike Penelope Kardashian).

Sorry, but that's my honest opinion.

MammaT

I don't like it. To me, it's a surname with no associations, so a bit nothing. There are so many lovely names out there that mean something - why not choose one of those?

It's the name of the psychopathic drug-lord in The Wire.

Almost, badgerina - he's Marlo.

What about Omar?

Avon.

Friend is called it but spelt Marlo

I think it's awful. Sorry.

I rather like it, it reminds me of the poet. In fact, I shall add it my list of names for a future cat - and if you tell your friend some random stranger is planning to give it to a cat it might put her off

Actually, when I first read 'Marlowe' I thought of the Raymond Chandler character.

Have to say, I'm not convinced. It falls into the category of giving-surnames-as-first-names, which I'm not a fan of.

Badgerina - I knew i'd heard it before!

Until Sienna Miller named her daughter Marlowe recently, I would have assumed that if it was used as a first name it would be for a boy because of Christopher Marlowe the C16th playwright. I suppose the Sienna connection may mean it becomes considered more of a girls than boys name - your friend might want to think about that aspect.

I really like it.

Thinking of Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan writer and alleged blasphemer