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I like them both. My MIL's mn was Maria, but we chose to use Mary as a mn to honour her, because it worked better with our daughter's other names. Maria seems to carry a heavier religious load than Mary, for some reason.

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Antonia is lovely and I value its classical origin; I suppose Toni is all right as a nn, but I greatly prefer Antonia so it would be safer in the mn position where no nn would be needed.