Mary - boring and common, or unusual and cool

[tummytickler]

So,
Mary - what do you think? Is it dreadfully dull, boring and massively overused or is it timeless, cute and a little bit cool?

Dh loves it - i think it is lovely, but not exactly 'WOW'.

I know a 6 year old and a 4 year old called Mary. It's VERY cute. Simple but pretty. Not common at all.

Ooh it's my middle name too! Really good name

We considered Mary for DD's name. In the end we used it as her middle name. I really like it.

Mary Alice IS nice, but I think of Desperate Housewives. BUT......... does that matter....

Oy, less of the common!

Timeless - love it.

Not common at all

Top of my girls list!

Even though I do have a Joseph

It was my Grandmothers name and we used it for dd's middle name, so as I used it, it's obviously a very cool name . I don't know any little girl Mary's, so still unusual in my neck of the woods. I think it's a really lovely sounding name.

i like it, but as a middle name

Very unusual these days, but classic. A good mix! I think it's cool.

Mary Alice is to die for.....will be nicking that for my list for sure.....

I don't like it. I think it sounds very plain and meh. It's definitely coming back in, at least in some areas, as I know 3, all under 4.

I don't know about now, but when I were a lass, there were two local families, whose girls were called

Jane
Mary
Anne
Susan

None of these seem to be v popular now (there were 4 Marys and 4 Susans in my class at school, c1971).

So less of the 'grandmother', please - I'm not that old!!!

I think it is cute but I don't think it is as unusual as you think, I know of two under one and one who is 3.

BEAUTIFUL name. If my last baby had been a girl I would have used that name

I wouldn't call it common, definaetly not, but it just doesn't do it for me.
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One of my flower girls was called Mary. She's 11 now. I still can't really warm to it, though it suits her.

Absolutely lovely. Go for it.

Not my favourite for some reason, but looking at it objectively I can see absolutely nothing wrong with it: not common enough to be boring, not unusual enough to be odd, it's certainly a classic. If you like it, then go for it!

And agree with Flibberty- timing seems about right.

Technofairy - her sisters would be Iris and Pearl so maybe would feel cheated on the same way as your gran - hmmm. Thanks - that was a very helpful comment - gives me some food for thought.