Miriam - what do you think?

[Ceolas]

We are seriously struggling for a girl's name for our baby due next week.

We have a bit of a Bible theme going on although it's not glaringly obvious from our other DCs names.

DH is dead keen on Miriam and I like it without loving it. Trouble is, I don't have any name in particular that I could say I love...

So what do you think? We don't know any Miriams at all and she would be the only one in the school for sure.

Any random thoughts/associations welcome

I like it, but like you don't love it - prefer Maryam or Mary.

i relly love it. i know alittle miriam and she is lovely.
had it on my list with last baby

I really like it. pretty, a bit different (unlike Mary) without being weird (like Maryam )

It's lovely.

Have you considered Naomi, Esther, Leah, Rachel?

I love this name. It is beautiful. It also has nice nicknames: Mimi, Miri.

I really really like it. There used to be a poster on here (she was lovely and kept chickens) who had a beautiful dd caled Miriam.
Fab fab name (another one to go on my 'wish I had thought of it for dd' list)

called!

Naomi - I like, DH doesn't

Esther - not sure. I think of Esther Rantzen..

Leah - neither of us like very much

Rachel - my sister's name

Tabitha and phoebe are both biblical names....how about those?

But yes, Miriam is a fab fab name, I love it more every day I call dd it, and it is definitely unusual without being weird. And you can shorten it to Miri, or Mim, or Moo, or Ria if you like. And if you like the French spelling Myriam it's more unusual.

How about Hester, then?

And at hippi's description of me!

Lily, hello

(phew, I am sooo glad I said nice things about you...)

It is a lovely lovely name though, it really is!

Or Jessica, Rebecca, Hannah, Ruth, Devorah, Eva?

Don't like it at all... too old testament, but then I'm not religious so that might be why.

Also, I used to have an elderly neighbour call it and an ex-friend's mum and just see it as too old lady-ish, but in a Doris, Joan and Elsie, not an Alice, Martha and Daisy way!

I think it's lovely.

I think we are down to Miriam or Ruth now.

Ooooh, I love Miriam! There's another MNer who has a dd with that name and when I first heard it I was that I hadn't thought of it for dd!

Miriam Margolyes.

Miriam is beautiful. Elegant.

I love it, my Nana was Miriam and she was one of the most elegantly, glamerous woman I have ever met. Her closest friends called her Mimi for short.

Miriam is beautiful.

Other Biblical ideas - Lydia, Tabitha, Eve, Elizabeth, Joanna, Talitha ("little girl")

Lydia is cute

Sarah
Abigail
Hannah
Keziah
Ruth
Rebecca

My sister is Miriam. Some of the family call her Mir, or Mirs or Mirsy. We used to sing 'mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy' her so she got called Mirsy dotes as a little one. She's a grown-up now, though! Has only ever met one other Miriam in her life!