Maria

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Thoughts on this name?
Gross? Old fashioned? Definite no-no? Or due a comeback?
Thanks!

I like it a lot!

I don't really like it, nor do I like Marie. It's just my personal taste and to do with the sound rather than it being 'old fashioned' (I love old fashioned names).

Not keen. Never have been.

Reminds me of the Sound of Music and a middle-aged, tatooed and pierced women who works in a craft shop near me (It doesn't really suit her)

Thank you for range of opinions. :)

It's fine but a bit boring IMO. I knew loads of Marie's and Maria's at school and uni. Admittedly Maria is a lot better than Marie. I'm sure a load of my friends' mums are also called Marie/Maria...

I've always disliked the name but if I have a girl it will be her name. (DH's mum's name, cultural reasons)
I've been trying to get used to it... And actually I heard a mum calling a little girl at an airport recently, and it started to warm to me a little. Probably because this little kid was so cute and playing around and made me feel broody. Admittedly it's still very very far down on my dream list.

I like it a lot. Works well in most languages too.

It's my name. I am in my mid thirties.

I now love my name.
I hated it as a teenager, due to everybody singing some sort of song at me, or quoting the Sound of Music at me. My history teacher especially used to sing "How do you solve a problem like Maria" at me if I was late handing in homework, which actually put me off doing it completely because by my rationale, the teachers already considered me to be a problem because of my name. All bullshit of course, but I had no one to work this through with and I bitterly regret it 20+ years later.
However it has a long and distinguished history- not all good, but certainly distinguished.
It is recognised pretty much the world over, and most people pronounce it the same way. Ma-ree-a.
It is a classic- I don't think you can actually "date" a person called Maria- I know them aged between 8 and 65.
WARNING. People are lazy when it comes to pronouncing it sometimes and I often get Marie, which drives me nuts but it says more about them than it does about me.

It is a pretty name, and my parents chose this variant as a less common variant than Marie (at the time). I was named for my grandmother who was Mary, and they wanted to distinguish between us.

I say go for it.

Love it, only know one under 18 named it.

I don't like it

I like there is so much positivity I expected mostly negativity for the name.
Also thank you Nutella for your insight :)

Beautiful, classy, elegant.

My middle name, grandmothers name & cousins name.
It is spelt weirdly though. Mariae. Still pronounced the same.

It's my name too - I was named after my Grandfather (but that's another story). I had a very similar experience to Nutella - lots of similar stories in fact . And I'm in my late 30s.

I'm totally biased of course but I love my name. It's always felt very grown up and beautiful.

At the risk of outing myself this is my name but pronounced the old fashioned English way - as in Twelth Night, sister of the Brontes, Jane Austen etc. I like it and like having the unusual pronunciation but generally get called by the more normal pronunciation. Doesn't bother me too much but don't really understand when I get Marie, Moira, Myra, and other weird interpretations.

I must be uneducated as I don't know what the old English pronunciation is!!

It's Mar-eye-a rather than Mar-ee-a.

I love mah-rye-a but you'd have to spell it Mariah to be sure of the correct pronunciation.