What's your take on the name Maria?

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I go back and forth on this. I love it and want to use it, then I lose interest.

I technically like it but it reminds me of a sad girl with green teeth in primary school.. but that’s not relevant for you.. also the von trapps but nothing wrong with that.

I think it’s one of the world’s most popular international names, and it’s undoubtably a classic

I do prefer Marianne though

Claudia, Julia or Francesca might be alternatives

Lovely, a classic beautiful name.

Maria is far more popular in the US than Marianne, which is French

Pis ….. Sounds like a car….

Maria is a beautiful name that is timeless and will never date.

Shouts European catholic to me. Now if you're a European catholic that's absolutely fine but otherwise it doesn't float my boat.

Very international

Nice enough

Wasn't disputing the origins of the name just the way it feels to me, being well an American. The States are a pretty big and names vary region to region, state to state. Funnily enough, just like they do over here.

Personally, I think you should go with the name your like op. Forget about everyone else opinions. Both my kids ha e American names. Not saying the name originated there! Definitely not as one is biblical but ypu only seem to hear it stateside or on someone over the age of 60. But we love it

Old fashioned and boring. It’s not the worst but I definitely wouldn’t choose it

I like it, it’s my daughter’s middle name.
I’ve never seen sound of music so no link there for me.

I’d think it was a European family. The only little Maria I have taught was Eastern European

Lovely name.

Went to university with a Maria - Northern Irish, best craic ever and beautifully piercing blue eyes. Had such a girl crush on her and have loved the name ever since.

It's a perfectly fine name. It's one of my middle names and as a kid I preferred it to my first name

It's my favourite female name. It's very beautiful yet strong and timeless. I know it sounds Latin but I don't mind that, quite like Latin names anyway. Just the sound of it - Ma-ree-a is beautiful! I really wish I could have called my DD Maria but sadly had to choose a name that works in DH's culture too.

It has too many religious connotations for my heathen sensibilities.

The only small Marias I have met have been European Catholics.

It's beautiful.

My friend has a little girl named Maria (she's 7 now) I think it's a beautiful name and sounds really pretty too. We are practicing Catholics though so it's not wildly unusual here

Maria is a Total classic - almost as timeless a girls name as you can get in E&W (not sure about Scotland or N.Ireland) .Only girls name that is more timeless is Elizabeth but that’s more popular.

It’s elegant , so international, has lots of cool namesakes and even has cute nn’s in Mia and Mai. Only problem is that I go back and forth on whether I actually really like the sound of it or not.

So boring, it's probably the most common name in the world