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Help[Opinions] Re: Mamie
in reply to a message by Wordsmith
To me it has an antique vibe. Down-home. Astringent, hard-bitten. Perhaps covered in coal-dust, or farm-dust. Like Minnie, Madge, Hetty.
It could also be flapperish, though, like Millie or Edith. Also it is like Jamie. So I guess I see the appeal. Hollywood slender and shrewd.
Would be an interesting choice for a character. I'd pick another flapper name for the middle - Mamie Frances, Mamie Sylvia. Or Sylvana, I like that.
As a baby name, I think it just sounds too much like "Mommy" to be the kind of name that a youth or young woman would be pleased to bear circa 2030. And it's *too* evocative of antique times, because of how infrequent it became, and I think that'd make it come off pseudy (cool on paper but dorky IRL).
- mirfak
It could also be flapperish, though, like Millie or Edith. Also it is like Jamie. So I guess I see the appeal. Hollywood slender and shrewd.
Would be an interesting choice for a character. I'd pick another flapper name for the middle - Mamie Frances, Mamie Sylvia. Or Sylvana, I like that.
As a baby name, I think it just sounds too much like "Mommy" to be the kind of name that a youth or young woman would be pleased to bear circa 2030. And it's *too* evocative of antique times, because of how infrequent it became, and I think that'd make it come off pseudy (cool on paper but dorky IRL).
- mirfak
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