Margaux

[CedarTreeLeaf]

What are your thoughts on the name Margaux? I like the sound but don't like the look of Margot (I just see the word maggot).

I hate the name Margot and this just makes it worse. I know it's Margot and yet I read Margox.

Margaux is a type of wine

Margot is a French name, nickname for Marguerite

I love Margot, but not spelt the other way

Don't like it. Looks a bit try-hard, sorry. Nothing wrong with Margot.

I like it! Wouldn't have known it was a wine.

I also like Margot though, could you have Margo without the T?

It sounds just the same as Margo which is godawful, and is a name for a seventy year old.

It looks like the plural of Margot to me.

No, awful!

It's like a French equivalent of calling your child Jorja or Rylee.

Awful

The -aux suffix is used for plural masculine so looks like you have gone from having one girl to several boys. I don't mind the name Margot but don't like the spelling you suggest.

I don’t like it whatever way its spelt.

Margaux is a type of wine.

I know a French Margaux whilst at university. I always thought the name was so pretty, and she was a lovely girl. I really like it 😊

Margoh
Margawh
Mahrrgott
Maahrgow
Marego
Maregoh

Or just stick to Margot.

Oh, that’s absolutely dire. Like a sort of vegan margarine.

Margaux is the more popular spelling in France, used more often than Margot.

I don't like Margot as it is pronounced Mar-gott outside France

It's like a French equivalent of calling your child Jorja or Rylee.

I don't think any French person would use this -- it would code as wine. But in a Paris-set novel written by a Paris-dwelling American that I read recently, the hick American mother who arrived to embarrass her Francophile daughter was called Margaux.

It's currently #33 on the popularity chart in France. It is a more popular spelling there than Margot.

www.behindthename.com/name/margaux/top/france

Oh ffs, another one of these threads 🙄

No, it looks ridiculous. And as pointed out by a previous poster, masculine plural.

Oh ffs, another one of these threads

I had no idea that the name Margaux was a controversial topic lol. I just wanted to see how it is received but now I know it's not well.

Margot Hemingway changed the spelling of her name to Margaux, which has always mildly amused me... Reminds me of the girls at school who insisted on mis spelling their names to look 'quirky' ; always using a heart or star to dot the i.

Well it's not well-received on here, but in real life, people would just think "Oh, that's unusual/quirky/lovely/not my choice" and move on. No name in the world is going to be liked by everyone. If you like it, that's good enough!

Oh, just spell it properly, fgs.

All the French parents calling their daughters Margaux are wrong . It's actually more popular than the Margot spelling!

Sparklysunflower

Exactly, with some of the reactions here you would think I just made it up lol.

I like it! Makes me think of Margaux Hemingway (though originally she was Margot).
Not as contrived as alternate spellings of some names.