Margot

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Is it reasonable to assume that 'Margot' is the latest MN fad?

Personally I can't stand the name, it reminds me of maggot...but that's not the point!

Anyone else recall any prior MN fads? I'm sure Violet was one recently as well.

I agree. It's not a nice name, it's really harsh.

A while back everyone loved Noah, a very whiny name in my opinion.

Clara seems to be another favourite. I also often see Beatrice, Sylvie, Matilda, Cecily, Vivienne, Edith, Theodore, Edward, Arthur, Albert...

Yeah I dont like Margot either! I've actually been really surprised so nice joining MN, how many old lady names I've seen 😂 some of them are lovely but some of them I'm like, really?!

I like all of those names soph .

Margot is great. Reminds me of the film Margot At The Wedding.

Margot is really harsh sounding, not nice at all.

I love Margot and Clara

DB would've been called Margot if he'd been a girl, back in the 70s.

We found this beyond hysterical, tainted as it was back then by one Mrs Leadbetter.

Personally I can't stand the name, it reminds me of maggot...but that's not the point? What exactly is your point then?

My daughter is called Margot. Named before I'd even heard of Mumsnet and two years down the line has had no maggot references and only overwhelmingly positive responses to her name.

I don't understand the 'harshness' comments. You understand the T is silent?!?

I must be a mumsnet stereotype as love almost all of the names mentioned including Margot. It's definitely becoming popular in 'real life' as well. I know of two new babies called this in the last few months.

It might have been best to comment on the thread that another poster started yesterday about the name Margot rather than starting another separate thread just to bitch about the name.

There was a time every one was raving about

Genevieve
Ottilie

Which are both awful IMO. I’ve never come across either in real life. There’s such a ridiculous obsession on here with ‘uncommon’ names that people lose all sense, and start saying that Peregrine is much nicer than Thomas as it’s ‘underused’

Saying that, I quite like Margot

Re: pronouncing the 't' in Margot.
A possibly/probably apocryphal tale, but an amusing one none the less...
Jean Harlow (the American actress) was introduced to Margot Asquith (the British Countess, and wife of the then PM).

JH: 'So pleased to meet you, Mar-gott'
MA: 'The 't' is silent, as in Harlow'.

@OneOfEach2 sorry I didn't mean to insult anyone personally, I just don't like the name. It might be because I knew an awful Margot at school. Anyway...my point was that MN seem to have phases with certain names being frequently mentioned, and it's not necessarily reflected in real life!

@SuperstarDJ maybe I will comment on that thread. However, my point wasn't to 'bitch' about the name, I just think it's funny it seems to be the latest MN fad when I am yet to meet one under the age of 30 in real life!

@CorneliusCrackers yes I remember Ottilie, and Elodie when expecting DD2!

I think it's a beautiful name, there's nothing harsh about its pronunciation and I think the maggot reference is ridiculous. They don't sound even vaguely similar.

And I guess one of the reasons it's popular here is precisely because it's still a pretty uncommon name.

Also, although I do remember with great fondness Margot Leadbetter, the first association for me is always Margot Fonteyn. Beautiful.

Margot is indeed pronounced Mar-got in many languages including German, Dutch, Scandinavian etc.

I don't find it very feminine. I much prefer Margherita or Margaret.

Margot is indeed pronounced Mar-got in many languages including German, Dutch, Scandinavian etc.

But not in English.

Maggie sounds much more like Maggot than Margot does, imp.

Actually, not in French. Many English people just prefer the French pronunciation! But if you pronounced it phonetically in English, you'd pronounce the t.

But if you pronounced it phonetically in English, you'd pronounce the t.

This makes no sense - English is not a particularly phonetic language.

English doesn't have silent 't's.

Yes it does.

Castle, listen, rapport, ballet off the top of my head.

And in the normal English pronunciation of Margot.