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I’ve never liked my name because it was so old fashioned and not “cute”. It was the name of a lot of other grandma's and aunts of my generation. Or librarians, sigh. I wanted a more “sexy” name when I was a young woman. It is a strong name but it sounds harsh, especially when someone is annoyed with you. After all these years I still don’t like it, but I am resigned to it. I notice old fashioned names are coming back, so perhaps one day people will be naming their babies Margaret?

I used to hate this name, I thought it dreadfully clumsy, but it's grown on me so much and now I enjoy it. I say it with two syllables.

I like Margaret (two syllables usually, except for emphasis) very much. I didn't much like a Margaret relative: she's OK but we had nothing in common and once our parents had died we were never in touch. But the name is fine. Weirdly, on several occasions when I was late teens, early 20s, random strangers came up to me in town and greeted me as Margaret. My relative and I had brown hair and green eyes in common, but she's very much taller than me, with a very different body shape, so I never understood it. And I didn't know her well enough to ask her if people ever addressed her by my name!

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Here in South Africa, the most frequently used nn for Margaret is Margie, pronounced with a g, not a j. I don't like it at all. Maggie is OK and I like Peggy a lot, but I've only ever known one Peggy person and it is her actual given name. We tried to use Meg as a nn for a Margaret at school, but it just didn't stick.

she’s very pretty!! i love many of her nickname options such as maggie, daisy, meg, pearl, margo etc. 💕

I love it, especially with the nickname Daisy!

Margaret is such a gorgeous name, which I pronounce as, "MAHR-gə-rit". I love this name in full, but I really like Meg as a nickname. It's such a fun name to write in cursive, as well!

I pronounce it the second way, but the second syllable is very short (I’m in the US, for context)

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I like Margaret — she’s nice & solid, not overly frilly. The t ending makes her feel elegant, and the nickname options are lovely ☺️

I like this name. I pronounce it MAHR-grit.

The first one