Molly or Mollie?

[yelyahyoung]

Our baby girl is due next Tuesday. I can’t believe it, woohoo!
Sooo my partner has been favouring Molly, where I quite like Mollie. But now I don’t know lol! What does everyone think? Or do we have to flip a coin?

Definitely Molly

Molly. Mollie is the down-market spelling.

I prefer just Molly, strange because I prefer Maisie to Maisy and they are very similar, but no I definitely prefer Molly

I prefer Molly.

Molly.

Spell names properly or they're in for a lifetime of spelling it out.

Molly

Molly

Imo if you don’t like the original spelling, you don’t like the name enough to use it.

Molly.

For some reason I always read lie as the word lie not a lee sound.
A friend announced her new DD as Poppie and I read she was called Popeye!

Definitely Molly

Definitely Molly

(Says mum of a Molly)

I have a Molly. However I wish I'd have been more adventurous and braver now and gone with something like Molleigh, Molli, so I'd say Mollie.

I like Mollie. Finding it a little strange that PP think it's a "new" spelling when it's the name a relative of mine has used for 98 years

Molly. Molly is elegant.

Mollie is a bit common imo, trying too hard to be different, or parents can't spell.

My DH and I were like this with our 2nd - Johnathan or Jonathan.
We went with Joshua.

Another vote for "Molly." "Mollie" made me think of something with a sticky/gooey texture and I couldn't think why---then I realized that the spelling was reminding me of the word "emollient."

By the way, re PP, Jonathan has only one possible spelling that is correct. "John" is a different name and has nothing to do with Jonathan.

As a nn for what?

Molly. Otherwise it's a lifetime of "with an ie"

Molly

Molly

By the way, re PP, Jonathan has only one possible spelling that is correct. "John" is a different name and has nothing to do with Jonathan

Well there’s also Jonathon I guess. Or Johnathon

I am with you though people don’t know that John and Jonathan are completely unrelated names.

Molly

DD's is with an ie.

The older people we'd known if called it had ie as their spelling, dating back over a 100 years. We also preferred the way it looked too.

Dd likes her name and in 17 years she has encountered no issues with that spelling. Well, no more than I have had with a name that has legitimate alternative spellings anyway. She accepts some people might spell it wrong and isn't upset or offended if they do, just like I'm not.

She's only ever been in class with one other girl with the same spelling, and only one other with the same name - so although popular in the name charts, in real life we haven't discovered it to be so round here.

Definitely choose a correctly spelled name.

Oh dear.
It's been spelt with an ie for over a hundred years. How long does a name need to exist before you class it as a correct version!?!

er I wish I'd have been more adventurous and braver now and gone with something like Molleigh, Molli,

I really don't like those versions. They definitely look made up spellings. Certainly I've never come across those versions when looking at historical documents, etc.

As for the name spelling correcting / it's really not that hard, turkey. My name is Claire. It can be spelled Clare or Clair too, and has been for years. It's really no hassle at all to tell people how to spell it on the odd occasion I need to.. I have different friends with the names Catherine, Katharine, and Kathryn - all valid spellings of the same name. They've all made it to adulthood without too many issues!

Our daughter is Molly. I think Mollie looks a bit silly. Also she'd have to always say "it's with an ie!"