Thoughts on Margot

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Is it too old fashioned?

Also avoids people mispronouncing it as Mar-gott

Surely these people do not exist?!

In Germany, Austria, Scandinavia etc Margot is always pronounced Mar-gott.

Apologies, I didn’t know that.

Love it- was on our list for DD and just missed out on the top spot. Would definitely use it if we had another.

"Well thank you vair much Jerry!"

Seriously though, it's a lovely name!

Lovely!

Thanks everyone xx I posted another thread asking between Adeline and Margot, still can't decide

It's quite nice but Maggot was my first thought.

It's much better than Adeline.

I love the name Adeline. Wish I'd used it for my DD.

Adeline is a million times nicer!

Yes, I’d go with Adeline any day.

I absolutely love it - top of the list for my girls names!
We have Edward and Albert already (Teddy and Bertie) already, so I always think Margot (maggie) would fit well with those names...

Now just to get a girl ha ha!

Love it!

I would go for Margo because my blood pressure would suffer from (English-speaking) people pronouncing the final t, and I bet that does happen.

As names go, it's OK. I have a name not dissimilar to Margot, and it's already been trashed on this thread.

Adeline is not nice....it is like Sandrine, a really pretty name for an industrial solvent. ;)

Adeline is like Sandrine

Outside of France I would also spell it Margo (assuming you want that pronunciation)

Are you a Margaret, Gasp? I think Margaret is a really nice name and suspect it is becoming very popular.

Adeline I don’t dislike but don’t love it like Margot! Margo looks so so wrong to me but then again I’m part French so I don’t think I get an opinion there. You could go like Margaux Hemingway and spell it like the wine

You're in a tiny minority, MUM! I'm not that keen on it myself, to be honest. The associations with our erstwhile PM did it no favours for a long, long time, but it was already going out of fashion even in the 60s when I was born, especially in England. I'm Scottish and most of the women in my family in the generations above mine were Margaret, Elizabeth or Anne/Annie, with the odd Euphemia thrown in for good measure.

I actually prefer Margaret to Margot. A very niche view, I know!

Margot - surprised to say I'm coming round to liking it.

Now long enough since "The Good Life", but you will get comments from over 50s commenting and maybe asking "where's Jerry"?

Margaret is much nicer than Margot, especially outside of France. Why choose a French name over an English one, do you love it so much more?

Or how about Margherita (Italian) or Margarete (German)?

Margarita is nice too. Margaret would have seemed a little old fashioned in the 60s but I know of a few born in around 1970.
Maggie is popular on MN.
Meg and Greta are nice too. Margot is probably way more popular than people realise. Something to do with a certain actress perhaps?