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Thoughts on Marnie please?!

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Dollydaydream99 · 18/10/2013 10:24

Title says it all!!!

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JuliaScurr · 18/10/2013 10:32

www.imdb.com/title/tt0058329/

MrsCinnamon · 18/10/2013 10:33

Alfred Hitchcock comes to mind.
love the film, would never use the name, sorry.

JuliaScurr · 18/10/2013 10:33

not a great role model
but a nice name

BurberryQ · 18/10/2013 10:34

good name....like it a lot....

ThursdayLast · 18/10/2013 10:35

Love the name and to me it has no connotations at all Smile

nosleeptillbedtime · 18/10/2013 10:35

I really like it!
Don't know the film/ role model references.

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Dollydaydream99 · 18/10/2013 10:37

No I didn't know the film until just seen the above link.... Do you think everyone over a certain age would refer to this when name announced?!?!

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MyNameIsWinkly · 18/10/2013 10:37

I've never known one in real life. Marnie, for me, is the alcoholic sister in This Charming Man by Marian Keyes.

Bowlersarm · 18/10/2013 10:38

I absolutely love it.

To me it is simple but unusual, and elegant.

Love love love it.

(Didn't have a dd to use it unfortunately!)

BunnyLebowski · 18/10/2013 10:39

Everyone has different connections to names. It would be completely daft to let other peoples associations put you off a name you love.

Fwiw I think it's a gorgeous name. Very very pretty.

BurberryQ · 18/10/2013 10:39

i read the above as a child and loved it....
never heard of the Hitchcock movie and am no spring chicken.

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Dollydaydream99 · 18/10/2013 10:42

Hmm I'm really gutted now, thought id found a name I loved!!! Would hate my child to go through life with people thinking "why would you name your child after such a dreadful character"?! Am I being over dramatic?!

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Bowlersarm · 18/10/2013 10:45

it's minor negativity really. it woukdn't have put me off for ds3!

HollyBen · 18/10/2013 10:45

I knew a Marnie at uni who was named after a Russian sailor her mum met when she was pg (they were from Shetland). Never come across another since. Lovely name imo

BurberryQ · 18/10/2013 10:46

yes you are - that movie came out nearly 50 years ago!! and I suspect the majority of people have not heard of it.
It is a lovely name, wish I had chosen it for DD infact!
If you like it, choose it.

Bowlersarm · 18/10/2013 10:47

Incidentally, we were going to a have it short for Marina to give her a birth certificate/pass the MN criteria of a high court judge name. But the intention was to use Marnje all the time.

PeterParkerSays · 18/10/2013 10:51

For me it sounds very American. Not necessarily a bad thing.

Viviennemary · 18/10/2013 10:52

I don't like it at all. It immediately made me think of that awful Hitchcock film with the girl. Even if it wasn't for the film I just don't think it's a very attractive sounding name.

Vatta · 18/10/2013 10:55

I read the book, but haven't heard of the film (I'm 36), I would worry about that association?

I like it - if you want a longer "formal" name, it can be short for Marianne.

Pinupgirl · 18/10/2013 10:55

I love the film-watched it the other night in fact-but I don't like the name as I knew a marnie and didn't like her.

Also lily allen and tamzin outhwaite both have dd's called marnie so it may become more popular.

I love the name Marina!

Vatta · 18/10/2013 10:56

I meant i WOULDN'T worry about that association!

TheEponymousGrub · 18/10/2013 11:05

Love the name! It's got everything: unusual but still indisputably a "real" name; simple clear sound; straightforward spelling. I have heard of the Hitchcock movie, of course, but never seen it: wasn't it Grace Kelly playing a glamorous criminal? Oh... I've just checked IMDB and I see it's darker than that...

But still: I think most people would agree the name is a great one, and would think that's why you'd used it!

stinkingbishop · 18/10/2013 11:07

Marina's beautiful. Was on my list. DP vetoed because we have a boat in one and he thought it might be a bit odd. So she can have both names and then if too many people are making the Hitchcock connection she can revert.

ElizabethBathory · 18/10/2013 11:07

It's lovely, and I have no negative associations with it at all :)