View Message

Mary, Maria, or Marian? (m)
Which one, and why? Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Archived Thread - replies disabled
vote up1

Replies

and I prefer the A ending. I really like Marie, but that is not on your list.
vote up1
Hi!!Mary is super overused. I associate Maria with Maria Reynolds from Hamilton and and I hate her. So I guess I like Marian. I do really like it.
vote up1
Maria, I think.
Just because Mary is close to generic to me. And Marian-don't like it enough.
vote up1
Maria, easily. As sweet as Mary is, it doesn't inspire me at all while Marian feels really dated to me.
vote up1
MaryOn a biased note, this is my middle name, the middle name of my mother, and of my late paternal grandmother. So it has a lot of family significance and I plan on using it as a middle name for a future daughter if I have one.On a less biased note; I've never cared much Maria though I sort of like the way it sounds, my friend's baby girl who is due in just a few days will have this name and it's quite refreshing to see it being used on somebody else's new baby! Marian I don't like the sound of and never have, it sounds harsh and clunky and not in a badass, cool way.
vote up1
Maria, definitely! I always have loved that name. Mary is so damn default and placeholder and boring.
Marian is okay, but it's pretty frumpy.
vote up1
Marian, definitely. I hate Mary, and while I did recently refer to Maria as "not ugly", I don't like it, either, because of the image it brings to mind.
vote up1
Mary, I guess. Maria is pretty, though a bit common and Mary is but that is the name of my great great grandmother, my moms moms dads mom, so I associate it with her. I know nothing about her except that she married a Arab man and she was probably was a Christian.
vote up1
We used Mary as a mn for our first daughter after her late grandmother who had been Bertha Maria and was Afrikaans. We preferred the sound and length of Mary in context (Caroline Beatrice Mary), while not disliking Maria at all. With shorter names around it, Maria would be fine.I wouldn't like to use Marian. I'd expect it to sound like Mary+un, but I mostly hear it like Marion, with a short -a-, which I don't like. Marian is also too adjectival and therefore too Catholic!I love Marianne though - happy memories of Sense and Sensibility - and would use it cheerfully as a fn.
vote up1
Mary, because it's just a beautiful, classic name.
vote up1
Hi !!!I choose Marian.Mary and Maria are classic and overused.. and are the immediate name of the Virgin.Marian instead is an adjective like to say 'dedicated to Maria'. I think that it is much better and respectful. I know I'm quite strange...
vote up1
Marian. I enjoy the association with Maid Marian.
vote up1