How would you perceive a Molly?

[Downwardpuppy]

I love the name. Think it's understated & would travel well. Also think it's quite classless & can't be judged too quickly.
Any opinions?!

Very sweet and pretty name but doesn’t really say strong or elegant to me. I don’t mean that as much of a criticism as it sounds! Polly or Nancy are similar vibe but stronger to my ear somehow. Molly is prettier and softer so it just depends ds what you’re going for. There will be lots of people posting that they know lots of cut throat lawyers etc who are called Molly now🤪🤣.

A small obese light-coloured terrier with pink eyelids. Or a human equivalent of Mrs Tiggywinkle.

I don't know - we've had a Tony and a Liz! I imagine even a "Mary known as Molly" might opt to use Molly in business or politics today. Right now we have MPs Debbie (Deborah) Abrahams, Beccy (Rebecca) Cooper, Rosie (Rosemary) Duffield, and so on ... Molly would probably would fit right in. Mollie does seem a touch more grown-up to me,though - not sure why.

I like it a lot, prefer -ie spelling though.

🤣 what’s a proper name?

Not keen

I was a teacher. The school was riddled with Molly’s.

Drugs or puppy (imo)

doesn’t mean the association can’t change!

cockles and mussels seller in Dublin.

Sorry I hate it. I’m not a fan of diminutives for legal names anyway but I think of plump and frumpy when I think of Molly. Ugly name and the street name of a recreational drug. All round ghastly choice.

sadly it reminds me of a childhood song.. 'milly molly mandy, sweet as sugar candy, im in love wirh you!'

and i'm afraid my mazda is called molly!

I would assume it was a nickname and she had some other whole proper name, like Mary or Margaret. Not judging. Just a feeling it's a diminutive and so would be a name for a pet, but a nickname for a person.

There is the drug connection but for me and my love of historical slang it means a gay man, Georgian period.

Thanks for saying this. I was trying not to say it makes me think of 18th century sex workers (Moll Flanders).

I know 3 Mollys, a grown woman, a child and a teen. I think it's suits them all well, and they're all lovely. I really like it.

Not sure about travelling well - I think it’s only used in English speaking countries and possibly a couple of the Scandi ones?

However as “nicknames as given names” go, I think it’s one of the much nicer ones as it at least sounds like it could easily belong on a grown woman too (I find a lot of the nickname names cutesy but Molly isn’t) and its also nice that it’s well known but not too trendy and easy to say and spell.

Not sure about classless either - I’d be slightly surprised to hear it much in the very upper classes (except perhaps as a “family nickname” for an older Mary). However I could easily imagine a Molly who’s a Doctor or Vet etc, so it’s definitely Mumsnet approved in that regard 🤣

Quite a few Mollys in their teens around me. Personally think it's in the vein of Daisy, a bit 'maid from the 1900s' - but whatever floats your boat!

Molly/Mollie??

I prefer Molly rather than Mollie, which looks like Ollie short for Oliver. Which I really don't like as a short for Oliver.!

I don’t like - sorry

It’s a pet name to me.

I don't like it. Good name for a dolly, that's about it

But the high court judges test is just perpetuating the idea that judges should come from a certain class and be a certain race because that’s what you’re used to seeing. Personally, I think it would be great if judges reflected the population they serve rather than being mainly from a few schools/uni/all from very similar backgrounds.

There was a song out back in the '80s (I think) and it was constantly playing on the radio here - My Irish Molly O. It's the first thing I think of when I hear Molly. So for that reason I'd steer clear of it. And now I'll have it playing constantly in my head until some other, equally annoying, song replaces it.

Drugs