Alice or Maggie

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Our baby is due in two weeks and my husband and I like the names Maggie Rose or Alice Rose. Which do you prefer?

Apologies for describing Alice as a drippy name. I'm sure your respective Alices are warrior girls/women. It's just the only Alices I've ever know have definitely veered towards being a bit, well, drippy.

Alice. Personally I can't stand Maggie. Meg is better, and so is Beth.

I don't see the name for a child to have an official short version of his/her name. I'm not that keen on my name (the full length version of Maggie, sigh) but I prefer it to all the possible shortenings, so I've always been known by the name on my birth certificate, and it's never been an issue once people grasp that I won't answer to the short versions. My daughter is the same. My husband's name is so short anyway that there are no short versions. My son decided for himself when he was very young that he wanted to be known by a short version of his name, and so he is. His name, his choice.

i love both.