Marlowe (for a girl)... thoughts?

[Tucancrossing]

And would love suggestions of Welsh middle names to go with it!

I like that. How about Bethan, Angharad, Alys, Mai, Fflur, Cari, Elen, Erin, Lili.

I also think of the town or a surname. It's not a nice first name.

Not a fan. Marlowe is obviously a place name known to many but the connotations of mar (to spoil), mardy (to be moody). Also Marley (a film dog or tile grout), Ma sounds like word for mother and Lowe, well who wants to be low? Sorry just trying to save your girl from all of the above.

I think it's lovely

It's a very unattractive name.

It's a surname.Not keen on it as a first name.

Nareece isn't welsh. Maybe the poster was thinking of Nerys (pron NERR-is).

Haf (Hahve) is a bog standard Welsh middle name.

Ha ha! I live near Marlow.

.....so, hard no. It would definitely be considered weird here.

I live not that far away. I commented on a thread that Marlowe Scout was probably best avoided in he surname was Hutt.

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I love it! I kept suggesting it to my husband but he refused because he saw it as a boys name. I did get him to agree to Margot which sounds similar but then we used something else.

I really love the name Marlowe, if we have another DD, that's on the list! Sorry, no suggestions for Welsh middle names though!

Marlo looks better and less like a surname.

I am maybe a bit too familiar with the town to see it as a name. It is a nice town though. Home of Tom Kerridge's gastropub! Lovely park and riverside. I'm sure if I knew a little Marlowe, I'd get used to it being the name of a child and not a town quite quickly though.

It's quite a nice sound, somewhere between mellow and Marnie. Wouldn't be my first choice, but there isn't anything terrible about it imo.

Little Marlow's t'other side of the motorway. There's a Marlow Bottom nearby.

Thanks for your responses 😊 My own name is a place name so I don't find it particularly odd in that regard! Come to think of it, my husband's name is also a place name that is very commonly used as a first name, and his mum's name is a place name as well 😆 There are so many place name names out there I find interesting that so many people feel negatively about it for that reason... although I do understand it might be weird if you live very locally (I don't).

Oh ? Was she conceived in Canterbury ??

I like it.
Don't know any Welsh names though I'm afraid.
Whatever you do don't spell it Marlo .

alexdgr8 Wed 11-Nov-20 23:28:06
no.
might as well have dickens or shakespeare.

The suggestion of Wren as a name makes me think of St Paul's Cathedral

I like it and I am usually very snobby about surnames as forenames.

Marlowe Carys?

OP For many people, either the rather bland (sorry!) Thames Valley commuter village or the very famous Tudor playwright Kit Marlowe will be the first associations for that name.

Marlowe was a brilliant playwright but not someone I'd particularly want to name a daughter after. Not because he was gay - that was fine - but because he was violent, said to be cruel, and involved in a lot of very mysterious/ shady plots, spying projects and perhaps betrayals.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe
www.bl.uk/people/christopher-marlowe
www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/01/books.humanities

But each to their own, of course.

Does it go with the surname, @Tucancrossing?
If you give an idea of what sort of middle name you like or a meaning you'd like, I'll have a think.

If you have some connection with Wales, an area or a place name might give a connection.

There's an excellent (male) rapper called Marlowe.

@MikeUniformMike my husband's family are from South Wales. No particular meaning necessarily, but my son has a Welsh middle name to honour that side of the family, and we'd like to continue the tradition with our other children.

@MikeUniformMike referred to fondly as Marlow's arse