Meredith?

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Thoughts on Meredith?

I also quite like Michaela and Merryn?

Please feel free to suggest any other M names?

Veto’d names already include: Melrose, Mackenzie, Margery.

Names we’re a bit ambivalent about: Marietta, Margot, Maeve.

Please help!

Meredith is lovely !

Margaret (abbrev Meg)
Melissa

Love the name Merideth. Can't think of any M names I like more

Meredith is lovely, and definitely the nicest one out of the names you mentioned.

Meredith and Maeve are both lovely

I really like Meredith, but from what I've heard, the correct way to pronounce it in Welsh sounds quite different to how most people think it's pronounced, and that would put me off using it.
I'm not Welsh so I may have got this wrong, but I think in Welsh it's more like mehREDith, whereas it's commonly pronounced MERRAdith.

Meredith - surname, harsh sounding
Michaela - ok but not keen on Miki or Kayla
Merryn - male saint

Melrose, Mackenzie - No to both
Margery has a granny-name appeal, Margery Allingham - Wikipedia

Marietta - a bit too fussy
Margot - Maggot, likely to be overused
Maeve - just don't like it

Margaret (Greta), Margarita (Rita), Meriel, Melissa, Molly, Millicent, Maria, Miranda, Martina, Marcia, Marcella, Morgana, Morwenna, Morven, Maarit, Melisande, Maryam, Myrtle, Maud

@NannyR , I think the welsh version is spelled differently and is used for boys, and they say the 'th' like in 'there' not 'thing'.

I love Meredith and Merryn from your list. Congratulations.

I've always liked Meredith and don't think it sounds harsh in the slightest.

Martha, Marta, Martine, Martina, Mariella, Marina, Melanie, Melody, Marion, Marian, Marianne, Marianna, Mariana, Meriel, Muriel, May, Mabel, Mae, Maureen, Morwenna.

Meredith is lovely.
Maeve and Margot much harder and seem to be the names of the moment. I vaccinate babies and every other girl is Maeve or Margot.
Mara?

Meredith is lovely!
I love Margot too.
Also - Martha, Maggie, Miriam

I adore Meredith but sadly my DH wasn't keen on it. I also like Marianne.

Love Meredith. My favourite M name is Martha.

Love Meredith.
We have a family saying of " I'm in Meredith,I'm in"
I believe it was an old musical hall joke originally.

Mhari, Morgan, Morag, Mara, Marissa, Melody

Love the name Meredith with the nickname Edie. Was on my list but had boys!

I know a Meredith and a Merryn. They are both men.

I've always liked Meredith and don't think it sounds harsh in the slightest.
I knew it as a surname first, so it seems like calling a child Mactavish or Mortimer

I enjoy Margot and Merryn from your list. Mabel is also a great name ❤️

It's often done for boys, though. Jordan, Cameron, Scott, Mason, Cooper, Brandon, Grant, and so on. Seems to be common nowadays in naming girls too - Morgan, Mackenzie, Harper, Madison, Addison, Cameron, Jordan, Ashley. Some of those were quite fashionable when my children were babies, which is a long time ago now. Perhaps more of a US thing originally, but it seems well established here now.

Like Cameron Diaz, Anderson McDowell, Reese Witherspoon and others. Aren't they their middle names?

Jordan, Cameron, Scott, Mason, Cooper, Brandon, Grant I know at least one of each of those. Can't say I like them as first names,

I absolutely love it, was my front runner for a while but I wasn’t keen on the most common nicknames. It’s great you have so many positive responses to it, when I posted about it the responses were quite mixed. A few people mentioned that it was originally a Welsh name and said slightly differently but it is also spelled differently, it’s not likely to be a problem.

it’s a great strong name. We also considered Merida

Meredith is a beautiful name, go for it OP

Spot on there. And it's a boy's name.

I prefer Merryn to Meredith which feels a bit frumpy to me! I know both and they all get called Merry most of the time.
Margot and Maeve are nice too.
Matilda
Melissa
Mirren
Mabel
Mary