What do you think of Mimi?

[Cortina]

Met a little girl around 6 with this name. Quite unusual and suited her. Would you consider?

Not as a full name, as it sounds very babyish. dd had a friend called Miriam who was known as Mimi by her family, and I think that was sweet, but assume that she will grow up as Miriam, as that's the name she used as school.

It would be a contender if I was having a poodle.

For a child - fine as a nickname but it needs to be a shortened version of something a bit less cutesy. Miriam, Margaret, Melissa maybe?

Yes, as the others, it's ok as a nn, but I wouldn't use it in it's own right.

I know of an Amelia with nn mimi - she is a baby though!

Nickname for Cosima I think.

Wasn't it the name or nn of Tom Cruise's first wife? I rather like but see how people might think its a nn - but does that matter - would become established.

Cute on a (cute) little girl but I just can't imagine taking a grown woman named Mimi seriously....unless her name really, really didn't suit her of course, in which case there is also a problem, non?

I like it.
I think it´s fine for a baby, child and adult.

I like it as a nickname. I know two Amelia's who go by the nickname of Mimi, and it is almost identical to my own nickname, but I would never use it as a given name. As I said, my nickname is almost identical and although I am happy with it amongst friends and family I would never have been happy with it in the workplace, it's just too babyish and so professionally I have always been known by my full name.

I know a Mimi.
She is 3 and her name is beginning to sound really daft. her full name is Amelia but nobody calls her that.
It did suit her as a baby, though.
But it is an example of parents who are very short-sighted in their choice of names, and pick sweet souding baby names without any thought of how it will sound when she is older or as an adult.

It's my mum's name (full name Maria) so I'm used to it on an adult. I like it.

My boss is called Mimi.....she's Chinese American and her Mother chose it because it means "small". She is indeed petite. I like it but for that reason I wouldn't use it myself.

DH wondered (unfortunately, accidentally aloud) regarding 3 year old twins with the names Mimi and Scarlett "Why do they have stripper names?".

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She won't be a cute baby for ever.

Grandma Mimi. Headteacher Mimi. Lawyer Mimi. Doctor Mimi. My mum Mimi...