Two baby name questions

[MrsHappy]

The name Malin for a girl popped into my head today. Also Marin. Am I making these names up or are they real?

Also, if you were going to give your daughter a very unusual middle name, would you give her a first name like Marin or would you go for something more "standard"? Our older DD has quite a popular name (although it is very pretty, hence its popularity), but I wouldn't like them to feel as though one got the boring name and one was named because I was under the influence of hormones...

All thoughts welcome.

Dn't know about Marin (there's a place in California called Marin county) but I knew a Danish girl called Malin so I think it may be a Scandanavian name.

I like them... but they were used in a nintendo Zelda game...

Malin- Swedish form of Magdalene. Marin- form of Marinus (therefore male)

Still like them though!
Very euphonic

I knew my avoidance of computer games would have a downside one day! This baby's a girl so perhaps should avoid the boy one...

I know a Marlowe.

they both sound a bit unfinished to me. Like they should have 'A's at the end.

Also there is ambiguity in how you pronounce them.
Is i Ma-lin or Marlin, Ma-rin or Marin

Just my thoughts

I've met a bloke with Malin as a middle name. She might suffer with the Shipping Forecast.

There was a Marin at school (male). A friend told me a friend had named her dd Malin as in the shipping forecast area.
I think Malin is pretty but Marin because of the boy at school makes me think male.
I would consider Malin to be unusual so would go with a more 'standard' middle name if it were me.
I have a popular 70s name and my brother had an unusual name (popular name) and it didn't bother either of us!

I know what you mean about them sounding unfinished, meemar, but I am strangely drawn to names that don't end in a vowel. We'll still probably end up with one though.

Have never listened to the shipping forecast, but maybe I should for inspiration!

I couldn't think where I had heard Marin before, but is it the name of Whitney Houstoun's character in The Bodyguard?

Actually it has just come to me, its her second name - Rachel Marin.

Malin sounds quite Welsh - i like it.

Oh dear, that's put the kybosh on it. That film was dreadful. (As if the Nintendo reference was not bad enough)

One of my nieces is called Marina, which I think is v pretty. She is half-Greek.

there a boy at my dds old school called that hes 15

Malin was a servant in one of the pippi longstocking books, so it might be scandinavian

I knew a Malin, she was from Iceland I think.

Not ending in vowel...
Beatrix
Margot
Ingrid
Astrid
Isobel
Rachel
Miriam
Meredith
Meriel
Elizabeth

Marin & Malin are both 'real' names but v uncommon.

I'm not fond of them and agree that they sound a bit 'unfinished' - actually I have no idea about computer games or Whitney Houston but they sound like names from a 1970s sci-fi novel (not necessarily a bad thing!).

I love Magdelen/a though.

From EachPeach's list I like:

Beatrix
Astrid
Isobel
Meredith

Margot! This place is priceless

Thanks EPPM. Although I am just not keen on any of those! For various reasons - I know someone of the same name, they are a bit too popular around here, or they sound odd with our surname etc. And Meredith will always be a completely hot MAN from a course I was on...(although Meredith is also that annoying-voiced popsy who is marrying McDreamy). Presumably if the right name comes along I will feel it in my bones!
It's just as well I have nearly 20 weeks in which to get this sorted.

On a different note, what do you reckon to names that alliterate? Like Flora French, for example.

Oh yes, DH is foreign and pronounces "Margot" with a hard T as in Mar-GOTT.

As my friend said "Margot is an elegant girl. MargoT wears sensible shoes".

Deary me.

I deffo think 'no' to alliteration: just sounds rather too cutesy and deliberate to me, sorry.

Hey currymaid Margot happens to have been on the list for my dc2- Cecily Margot was the front runner but he was born 4 mo ago.

Alliteration? NO / Don't do it!

Cecily is lovely.