Heidi or Molly

[Atlasta]

Asking for friend who loves Heidi but worried everyone automatically thinks of the book and series?
Her DP loves Molly but my dfriend associates Molly with a cat?
What does everyone think?

Molly by a million miles.

I simply can't stand Heidi, it's so twee & cutesy. Molly is a bit cutesy too, but it's much nicer.

What could be more cutesy than Molly. Gah.

Don’t particularly like either but marginally prefer Heidi. Molly sounds too much like Mop.

Like Heidi more but for my own dd I'd chose molly

Our family is full of Mollys of all ages from 5 to 87! Suits all of them.

There are hundreds of Molly’s, but I really dislike the name Heidi.

I much prefer Molly.

It would look well weird to call a baby Adelheid unless you were German, in which case it would be quite nice. Does your friend have German heritage OP?

Not really keen on Heidi, although i can see it's quite pretty. Molly is lovely though! My nephew's teacher is called Molly (in her twenties) and she's just lovely!

Not sure which one is nicer, like both, sorry

Love Heidi. Molly sounds like she'd be a quiet humble soul, not sure why 😂. Heidi sounds more feisty (yes I loved the books).

My friends have no German heritage at all.
We've had the Adelheid discussion when she was researching Heidi and she's not a fan

Neither

Also molly is slang for MDMA. I don’t do drugs and barely drink and the first thing I think of what I hear Molly is drugs lol.

Heidi, much nicer than Molly.

In my area Molly means old fashioned and frumpy. "That skirt is molly"

Adelheid isn't a nice name and prob very dated in Germany. Heidi and Molly are both lovely, think I prefer Heidi as there are already lots of Mollys.

I have a Heidi. We've had very few comments about goats and none from her friends.

herefortheduration I say molly all the time and no one else ever knows what it means! I say you know, she dresses ‘molly’. And they’re still like

That aside though, I like Heidi as it’s less popular.

Molly makes me think of drugs (but perhaps that's just my misspent youth?!)

I think Heidi is OK,.

I always love it when MN teaches me new things. Who knew Molly was slang for Es!

Heidi sounds German, and Molly sounds like a waif or stray in Victorian England.

Is Sadie kind of in-between. Sorry I know you didnt ask for suggestions but sounds like she won't be able to compromise.

I love Heidi & would have it as our girl name if we didn’t already have a Clara - it feels just a tad much

I did know Molly was slang for drugs but I don’t think it’s a major problem

Heidi is nice and more of a proper name imo. Molly is a nn and a bit juvenile for a woman.