Mary

[Lakelover]

It's my grandmother's name, dp and I both love it, but is it TOO old fashioned? I'm afraid I cannot STAND some of the celeb tryhard names that you see floating about, so it has to be what I would consider to be a sensible proper name! (let's just hope she's not too contrary!)

It's a bit too, um, fundamental for me. I don't like these weighty names like Mary, Adam, Eve and Joseph. They're just a whisker away from Jesus, which would be quite a cross to bear.

middle names, hmm, something simple but a bit longer?

depends on surname

Mary Abagail is nice but not if your surname is Davies

thanks for the suggestions! am so thrilled to have such a great positive response - great to have MAD as your initials! My Gran doesn't have a middle name actually, so I might just leave it as the one name. We already have a Tom William and the surname is short, Lowe.

Mary Lowe sounds lovely

Decided! x

love it

mary is a great name - will never date and will work in many cultures and languages

if you are worried that its too old fashoined, why dont you go for a more contemporary middle name?

It's pretty.

Mary TigerApple should do the trick if you were worried about being oldfashioned

I almost like it. I certainly don't dislike it.

Maribel would be unusual and pretty. Marianne would be very classy. Mariella would be of the moment.

But just Mary is a little too Holy Joe for me. I just wouldn't pick it myself, but I would still think, how refreshing if I did come across a little Mary.

love it. its a classic name that isnt over-used.

MaryBS, my family seem to interchange it through the generations, Mary Catherine, Catherine Mary, sometime varying the spelling!! No Bernadettes yet tho!! My mum told me the tradition is to call all girls Mary then give them the second name as the name you would like to call them!

My DD is Elizabeth Mary!

Mary Ann Lowe. Either call her Mary Ann or just Mary.

Too many family connotations for me but nothing wrongwith it as a name imo.

Mary Martha
Mary Eliza
Mary Francis
Mary Helena
Mary Sophia

i love mary. it's my SIL name and we were considering it during my last pregnancy.
maybe.....

Is our name for whenever we have a dd (have 2 ds so far).
My name is originally Kathryn so we're thinking Mary Kathryn.

Go for it

I love the name Mary but only with the right accent. I couldn't use it for any of my dd's because of my dodgy northern accent (it comes out as 'murry' as in rhyming with furry )

adore it. Restrained but quirky.

I like it, I am not sure why it has been out of favour for so long.

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timeless name.

I really like Mary.

I love it. Really wanted it for dd but MIL wouldn't allow it .

It's classic, timeless, ageless - yet hardly anyone's called it these days (babies I mean).

One of my middle names, which I hated as a teenager, but kind of like it now!