Mary-Jane

[Belugagrad]

Do you like it? Only problem I see is explainIng it's got a gap in it or not. Want to know if others like it. Thanks.

It is pretty. My first thought is Lovely rice pudding for dinner again.

Are you a Rastafarian?

Oh what's the matter with Mary Jane?
It's lovely rice pudding for dinner again
She hasn't an ache and she hasn't a pain
Oh what's the matter with Mary Jane?

This verse is the reason why my mum uses "Mary Jane" to mean "grumpy little madam". Also shoes, drugs, dank is as has been pointed out.

Mary on its own is lovely

I like it. Agree that Mary alone is lovely too as is Mary-Kate, though that might make you seen like a full on Olsen twins fan.

DD2 is Mary, although we do sometimes call her Mary Claude, with Claude being her first middle name. (Claude is actually a gender neutral name over in France, and was after my French-born grandfather, so we haven't gone crazy). However, her first name is "just" Mary, which I think is beautiful as a standalone name.

You could always use a middle name that works with Mary, and use is a pet form, like we do with our daughter.

My first association was MJ from Spider-Man, so quite cool. Then the shoes, in a 1940s, Enid Blyton kind of way. No weed or vaginas here!

Fwiw, Mary Claude is awesome, Tess.

Druggy connotations, and the shoes

I do like both names separately

How about Jane Mary?

I think both names are lovely and either as stand alone names as a first name are fab.

Sarah-Jane or Mary-Ann are similar, if you want to avoid comments about shoes or drugs.

I dislike Mary-Kate - it would traditionally have been 'Mary Katherine/Catherine', shortened to Mary-Kate.