Need a longer name to be shortened to Mollie.

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35/40 Bump is called Mollie which we like but I want her to have a name that we can shorten so her nickname is Mollie. I'm not sure Mollie is very professional for when older.
I can only think of Margaret which I'm sure about.
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I know an Amalia "Molly".

Camilla?

Camilla?

Another vote for Rosemary - beautiful name and very underused.

Molly with a Y is more "proper' I think. Mollie looks more like a nickname or for a sheepdog.

I knew an Amelie who was known as Molly.

Call me old-fashioned but I prefer when someone goes by what is commonly known as a nickname they have a "proper" name from which it is derived, iyswim. I don't like the fashion for Jack and Alfie and Millie and Ellie etc as the "standalone" names, though as nicknames they are fine.

Mollie/Molly to me is one of those names - I think a throwback to the former popularity/ubiquity of Mary would be lovely.

And fwiw I used the old "spring the name on DH immediately after delivery when he doesn't dare argue with me" trick when I named DD. I gave him a choice of Cecilia or Rosalind and he picked Cecilia. He had named our DS two years prior so this was my turn. It wasn't his first choice but he is far from resenting it.

Molly seems much less juvenile and twee than a Mollie - so if you'd like to use Molly on the birth certificate I would use the more grown up spelling.

Seems silly to create a longer name when you don't have one in mind but I think Mary is the obvious choice. Rosemary could work but it's a bit of a stretch.

Xanthe is a great name.

Mallory is a great idea!

Another person that thinks Mollie/Molly is fine as it is, maybe go for a traditional middle name which she can use if she wants to sound more "grown up" in later life?

Mollie Elizabeth
Mollie Francesca
Mollie Dorothea

That sort of thing??

Everyone will spell it Molly rather than Mollie. Do you want to spend the next fifteen years, and her the rest of her life telling people how to spell it? Gets annoying very quickly.

I definitely prefer the -y ending of Molly compared to Mollie which to me if more of a dog name. Don't think it needs to be short for anything though.

Do you like Lottie (Charlotte) as a similar alternative?

I really don't understand this 'professional' thing. If she wanted to be an Orthopaedic surgeon she will!!! Her application wouldn't be turned down because of her name and she wouldn't say 'oh no I can't have the career I want because of my name!'

We have a Mollie in our extended family. She's a lovely, young, professional woman and her name has definitely not held her back!

If it helps at all I know a surgeon called Molly and it doesn't seem to have held her back

I know several Molly's in different adult age brackets and they all seem perfectly professional to me!

One of them is Amanda, the others are standalone Molly. I think the spelling Mollie is absolutely fine.

Molluscum?

❤️ Xanthe, but Mollie is lovely too.

Well, if there are going to be High Court judges called Tinkerbelle I think an surgeon called Molly will be just fine. I recall the senior partner of the first law firm I worked for commenting on a barrister I had instructed in a family case "Do they really allow people called Tracey to the bar these days?"

What about Emily and Millie instead?

My grandma was Mary, known as Molly.

Maryann is a fab name.

My doctors name is Molly.

Millicent Olivia!

I was taught that 'Molly' was the familiar form for Margaret and that 'Polly' was the familiar form for Mary. This was information from a family of ancient Marys and Margarets. The Polly one seemed most odd - but I accepted it.

(Milly Molly Mandy stories confirmed half of this for me!)

I personally think your fine to use Molly as a name however here are some other suggestions to help you:

Amalia
Margot / Margaux / Margo