Morven or Merryn?

[Scottishgirl85]

Having a little girl in 4 weeks. I'm Scottish (although we live in SE England) and would love to use a Scottish name - Morven is currently the favourite. Another on our list is Merryn, which is a Cornish name with a lovely meaning (joyful), but we really want a Scottish connection. What's your gut reaction please, Morven or Merryn? Thanks!

It would depend how you pronounce Morven for me. I love the Welsh name Seren, but it is often mispronounced by English people, the en at the end should be like the en at the start of envelope, but in England people will usually replace the second e with a schwa and say something that sounds like Ser'n. I'm guessing you could have a similar problem with Morven depending on how it's pronounced.

I only know a male Morgan! He's in his 40's. I know a few Merryn's all female.

My vote is for Merryn

Morven....not Morgan

I like Merran. The wife in braveheart is Murren but I'm not sure if it’s a crap pronunciation by Mel Gibson or an actual name...

Murron is an actual name but it wasn't Wallace's wife name. She was a Marion/Merran/Marren, all pronounced Mairrin back then. Murron isn't connected with it, it's of a differnt origin.

Mirren is a yet another name that's also unconnected with Marren, Merran and Murron. It's easy to confuse them all!

Morven. Hands down.

Morwen is nice. It's welsh and pronounced MORR-wen. (Morr as in morris and wen as in Wendy).
Morwenna is Cornish and nice too.
I like Morven and Merryn too.

I like Morven best

How about Mirren?

Morven
How about Mirren, it's lovely too

Crossposts Sophronia

Merryn, but then I'm biased as we have one. Have not had a single negative reaction to her name.
Morven is lovely too.

Merryn is lovely!

I love Merryn. Isn’t Mirren a Scottish name? What about that instead if you want to keep Scottish connections & I think it’s also lovely. Morven is quite nice too though.

Morven is lovely.

Thank you everyone! It's pretty much 50:50! A family friend has a Mirren and the football connection puts me off a bit, but it is a nice name. Interesting comment about potential for Merryn to become popular, that's quite a big factor as DD1 has a very unusual name therefore we're keen for DD2 to be equally unusual.

I love Morven! It’s on my list... Go for it!

Morven! I like Merryn but I love Morven. I would use it myself but it really doesn't work with our surname :(

Such a beautiful but underused name

Morven x 1000!!

If you want a Scottish name, then of course go for Morven. Merryn is nice as well, but it's Cornish, so I wouldn't consider it.

Merryn makes me think of merry. Morven makes me think of mourning and mournful. So Merryn.

Both nice. Merryn is sweeter whereas Morven has a bit more edge. I think I'd pick Morven.

I think you like Morven more OP so that’s what you should go for.

Morven!

Merryn. Morven is hideous sorry

Morven! It sounds strong and cool to me, whereas Merryn is a bit more insipid.