Names for baby girl

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What do you think of the name Penelope Mae for a girl with penny-mae for when LO is young love the middle name mae

Penelope is fine. I know a few Pennys and a Pennie who isn't Penelope and they are all nice.

Sorry I don't like May much and Mae not at all, but I'm not alone, but you probably might not like my DC's names.

Don't use Mabel or Mavis if you really want Mae.

Call her Penelope Mae and use Penny Mae as a nn when she's little.

I really like it :)

Penelope is a lovely name. Personally I loathe ‘Mae’ tacked on to the end of names. You see it everywhere now and in my opinion it cheapens nice names in an attempt to make them more unique (even though it’s not unique, every other baby is an Ivy-Mae or Sophie-Mae or Ellie-Mae!).

I would stick with Penelope, which is beautiful, and leave off the Mae.

Penelope is number 41 for baby girls born in uk and popularity has risen steeply so it’s worth being aware if you’re trying to avoid a popular name. It’s not my favourite name personally but I’ve known adult pennys and think it works fine. I think you’d find people would tend to drop the Mae, it seems to feel more of a mouthful to say than some 3 syllable names?

I'm personally not keen on Penelope - weirdly I don't mind the Penny or Nell nn's but I think it's the strong -pee sound at the end of the name that I really dislike (because I like the similar Persephone). I prefer Helena or Eleanor nn Nell or Leni, they sound more elegant to me.

I absoultely adore May/Mae though, but it's dime a dozen as a middle name. If it's a family name for you, have you considered using it in the first name spot instead? May is so classic and very pretty (and less trendy as a first name than Mabel or dated like Mavis). Or an alternative could be the lovely Maeve?

Penelope Mae is lovely.

I would avoid Mavis/Mabel for two reasons. Firstly, there’s the family association, and secondly, mil was the one who chose it. Both potential reasons for family fall-outs. Why should one grandparent get to chose a name, and not the other?

Penelope Cara?
Penelope Carrie?
Penelope Coral?
Penelope Cali?
Penelope Carla?

I love the name Penelope
Never met one

It’s lovely.

Penelope is nice. May is much better than Mae.

Penelope Mabel is lovely! 'May/Mae' is very overdone as a middle name and does make a lovely namr seem a little chavvy, especially with the 'Mae' spelling, sorry OP. But Penny May is very cute for a little child and having Mabel as the middle name makes it much classier but you can still have the cute childhood nickname you want.

Honestly I MUCH prefer Penny to Penny-May as I agree with a PP that double barrelled first names are a bit downmarket, but as its just intended as a childhood nickname it's maybe less of an issue, unless you want everyone to call her Penny-May. Also agree with a PP that you cant force a childhood nickname. I chose one ahead of tjme for my 2nd and it absolutely didn't stick and didn't even seem right to me when I saw her! So Penny-May might just end up as Penny or even Nell or even something absolutely unrelated to her name, depending on who she is as a person! When she's born you'll know what nickname suits her.

Penelope is gorgeous.

Penny is OK but I much prefer Nell.

Mae is (so sorry) downmarket, and hyphenated with Penny... just no.

May is a much better spelling, but absolutely not hyphenated with anything.