Mab for a girl

[Jooni]

I know it probably won't go down well but I love short, sweet, strong names for girls and Mab is a recent discovery which is really growing on me. It's of Irish origin, pronounced just as it looks, apparently meaning "happiness". Thoughts please?

I also really love Meg but DH has vetoed because of Family Guy

Hmm sorry it's a no from me
It doesn't even sound like a name
It sounds like a electrical component or something

I'd wonder if it was a nickname for Mabel or a typo and you met Mads (nickname for Maddie or similar name?)

I'm Irish and it's a no from me too. It sounds & looks like an acronym.

What about Mabel? Maeve?

I'm not keen.
How about Tabitha - Tab
Or Maddie, Lucy, Rose, Penny, Polly, Nell (Penelope)

sorry I think it sounds like an acronym. Don't even like it for a nn.

Bea, Dot, Eve?

Mabli - Mab for short? I love it personally.

Sounds like a name for a cat, sorry.

I love it! Like in Romeo and Juliet -

MERCUTIO
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,

As in Queen Mab, mistress of mayhem (Midsummer Night's Dream, I think)?

Fine, but will be when they are a tearaway toddler!

R&J, bugger. Sorry. X-post with cox

Makes me think of Mercutio's speech in R&J... Queen Mab is a fairy I think.

It's a no from me. Is it pronounced to rhyme with 'jab' and 'lab'?

I'd assume it was short for Mabel, and I'd then wonder if it was "Mab" or "Mabe". No from me.

Ha! All us 15:44 Shakespearos cross-posting.

Its not of Irish origin, I think you're mixing it up with Medb?

Queen Mab is a Shakesperean character, the fairy midwife, which in turn was probably from the Chaucerian Mabily.
It's also a welsh mythical male figure.

It's not a very nice sounding name.

That isn't a nice name, no sorry, it sounds like it's short for something, i actually thought you'd misspelled it in your title.

Sounds like a technical computing word. "Download Mab 6 for faster processing"

My great aunt Mabel was known as Mabs. It sounds like a nickname - sweet but incomplete.

Thought so

Yes, like Queen Mab. I like the connection!

It is a weird one I suppose... I do really like Mabli, and Nell but know a couple of those unfortunately.

cox beat me to it!

First thought was Romeo and Juliet.

I like it. It's snappy and un-frilly.

As a big Jim Butcher fan (he writes The Dresden Files) - hmm. Mab is the Queen of the Winter Court, Queen of Air and Darkness, and she's pretty damned dark. As in totally ruthless. Not a nice person.

it sounds weird and made up to me. Sorry OP