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Down to top 5, got to make a decision!

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 06/04/2016 17:58

Stuck between Beatrix, Dorothy, Harriet, Marianne and Matilda for baby due very soon! Surname is double barrelled with lots of T's in it, so I think that Matilda probably doesn't work with it but not sure.

Would like to know if you hate/love any of these names, and if so, why. Also would be interested in nicknames used for Marianne (so far thought of Mari, Maz, and Annie but the others have much more nickname potential).

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pilates · 08/04/2016 10:20

Beatrix

Dorothy and Susan are just awful.

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Voteforpedr0 · 08/04/2016 10:45

Matilda is ok, Tilly or Tilda for short ? The others are terrible

sonlypuppyfat · 08/04/2016 10:48

My grandma was a Dorothy she ended up being called Doll

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 08/04/2016 11:11

Totally take the point about Susan! I think it will come back eventually though :) Looks like most people like Marianne best - that will please DH as that's his favourite!

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squoosh · 08/04/2016 11:22

Susan will be 2026's Isabelle.

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 08/04/2016 11:34

I think so! I guess there are lots of Susans that are young grannies now.

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SugarDiabetes · 08/04/2016 11:44

Love Marianne and Susanna/h

*Disclaimer - I have a Susannah of my own, known as Susie, Susie-Anna, Zan and Zanna!

Narp · 08/04/2016 12:38

Marianne

I much prefer Susannah to Susan

Don't like the others, sorry

Indecisiveness · 08/04/2016 14:57

Marianne or Harriet.

Don't like the others, sorry, especially Susan.

Prefer Beatrice to Beatrix and Susannah to Susan.

Cerseirys · 08/04/2016 15:17

Beatrix, Harriet and Dorothy sound like a trio of batty maiden aunts from Edwardian times, sorry OP, but Marianne is pretty.

Flowerrr · 08/04/2016 16:24
  1. Matilda
  2. Dorothy
  3. Harriet
  4. Marianne
  5. Beatrix
oleoleoleole · 08/04/2016 16:36

Beatrix will spend her life having her name mis spelled. I know a marianne whose nn is ski as they put the ski on the end of the name!!!

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BobbingUpAndDownLikeThis · 08/04/2016 19:05

Sounds like Marianne is the clear winner! Thanks everyone :D

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ems942 · 08/04/2016 22:07

Ari would be a great nickname for Marianne

peachypips · 08/04/2016 22:23

Love Marianne! Makes me think of Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility. Very very romantic heroine.

BertrandRussell · 08/04/2016 22:25

Oh no-Marianne Dashwood is who puts me off the name. Such a wet fool!

peachypips · 08/04/2016 22:26

Ha ha! Hilarious! I love Marianne Dashwood! Oh Willoughby!!

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 08/04/2016 22:27

Isn't everybody a bit of a prat at 17 though?

peachypips · 08/04/2016 22:27

She was indeed a wet fool when she stayed out in the rain.

peachypips · 08/04/2016 22:28

Yy Remus. And she gets her shit together and marries Brandon in the end.

BertrandRussell · 08/04/2016 22:28

Not that much of a prat. And not that insensitive, rude and unkind.

peachypips · 08/04/2016 22:29

Hmmm never looked at it like that before. She's a typical younger sister.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 08/04/2016 22:30

I don't think she's unkind. Silly and a bit selfish and misguided, sure.