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.
TIA

Whatever you do, go with the name you like, not one that you happen to think, from a 2017 perspective, will be more fitting for a surgeon/equivalent "high-ranking" profession in another 30-plus years!

My name (which is not Jane) is, on the face of it, not one you would immediately associate with high attainment in life :). However, honestly, it has never, ever held me back.

I'd stick with Mollie if you both like it. My sons friends little sister is called that and I think it's really sweet.

Molly Weasley in Harry Potter too ;)

I know children with very strange names/ strange spellings. I've seen is "Hux" and "Jay-Jai".

I love Xanthe too!

I think Molly is a perfectly fine name on it's own and don't see why it wouldn't be considered a professional name when she's older. As an aside though, I had a great, great aunt Dorothy and she'd always been known as Molly. Apparently her hard of hearing grandad misheard when her parents referred to her as Dolly and she was Molly ever after.

Mary-Olivia?

Sounds like a buxom wench from days of yore. Sorry.

Moll had other meanings in the past but they aren't used now so I think you are ok.

We called our son the long version of his name to give him a choice - e.g. think Theodore, but we always called him Theo.

He strongly feels we should have named him the short version as he dislikes having an official name which he cannot relate to.

MALI: Welsh form of Molly,

try here
www.the-red-thread.net/genealogy/ancient-names.html

2 aunts one molly (84) /one mali(52)
wouldn't know what else to call them
except one is big molly the other is little mali(age not size)

Just to set your fears at ease, my 37 year old sister is called Mollie. She is a paediatric consultant and her name is often commented on as to how beautiful and elegant it is. I think the name ages well :)

Sounds like a buxom wench from days of yore. Sorry.

No thats why I like it!!!

Maybe she won't want to have a "professional" job. She might want to be a rock star.

I love Mollie/Molly and both are perfectly acceptable as given names.

Mollie is a great name, either spelling works but I prefer your suggested.

I think it is totally fine; I don't think too many folks will judge professionalism based on name. If she chooses, she can be M. Lastname. That is not uncommon in my world.

Congratulations and enjoy little Mollie.

Molly is an effeminate man/male prostitute, to me - as in the molly-houses of the 19th century. That's the first thing I think of when I hear molly.

I have a 15y Mollie

We choose that spelling as the couple of older people we knew of with the name had that spelling, dating back many years. I also just liked the way 'it looked' over Molly. One was pretty high up in her work, so didn't hold her back.

Our Mollie is a name in its own right, rather than being a pet form of any other name.

It can be a pet for for Mary and Margaret.

Mollie has been used as a name (as an alternative to Molly) for well over a century. Ive come across many with that spelling over the years of using Ancestry, etc. I'd say that makes it fairly traditional enough.

DS1's girlfried is Molly. He calls her Moldred for long

She works in a well-respected profession.

Do you want to spend the next fifteen years, and her the rest of her life telling people how to spell it?

Not really. If asked for her name for the first time when someone is writing, she just says Mollie, with an ie.

No different to me being called Claire, and first time needing to spell it.

My DD is Mollie Olivia, if considering middle names as a pp mentioned above.

Oh I have to say, I never heard of Xante and I have to say it's lovely even the way it's spelt is so elegant. Mollie is pretty too but speaking as someone who was named one name and called another, don't do it. It causes confusion when filling out forms, school and the likes.

He calls her Moldred for long

Oh, I like Moldred too!

My great grandmother, born 1899, was Molly. On her birth certificate and everything. I'd just go for it if you both like it! And congratulations!!

The most famous Molly that I can think of is Molly Ringwald. It sounds like a solid name and could belong to a head teacher, surgeon or judge.

The trouble with Mollie rather than Molly is she will spend her whole life having it mispelled , even having said 'It's Mollie with an ie' (my shortened name is commonly an ie but I spell it with a y, people get it wrong all the time)

Otherwise though I think it's a great name. I like Xanthe too, but not Maryann

Molly is better than Mollie, too cutesy. It's a perfectly good name in all instances.

I do however find picking a name based on a hypothetical career choice for a child who hasn't even been born yet weird. Would you ever not employ someone based on their name??! That's utterly ridiculous! I'm sure there are lots of people in very intellectual, successful careers with stupid names, doesn't make them any less qualified.

To me it's short for Maureen, but I'd probably go for Marina instead