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As far as infantile names go, If prefer Lulu if anything. I prefer Mariam. Anyways, I don’t care for Mimi. It’s decent if it’s a Mi- beginning name but otherwise I really don’t care. I knew a not-so-nice person named Mimi once so I don’t have the best impression on the name.

Mimi, to me and most South Africans with an interest in music, means Mimi Coertse, who was a lead soprano with the Vienna State Opera for over 20 years. Glorious voice! Her given names are Maria Sophia, but she's always used Mimi professionally. She is very old now, and has Alzheimer's, but the recordings live on.

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She adopted a daughter and named her Mia: to my knowledge, just Mia, not Maria.

It’s cute. I have a niece named Miriam, who gets called Mim or Mim-ee most of the time.

It's another name for grandma in some parts of the US South.

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It's cute, although I don't think it would age well. I've only heard is as a nickname for Miriam. I prefer Mim or Miri, though.

It's cutesy, like Kiki or Lulu. It could be brassy as well. I don't mind it.

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I've only heard it as a NN for Kemitra, which I always thought was a cool name. I think it could be a NN for Demetria / Dimitra instead of Demi.

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Maria "Mimi" seems best of the mentioned names; I'd be disappointed if Miriam was Mimi instead of Miri, and it'd seem extra babyish with Marie.

This message was edited 6/30/2021, 7:41 PM

I hate it so much. It feels infantile in spite of being a grandma name. My mother's best friend is named Mimi and she is wonderful and kind, but she does not make me like the name any more.

I love Mimi as a nickname for Miriam!

I hate it, it sounds so infantile and gratingly annoying to me. I much prefer Mitzi as an unconventional Maria nickname (though I know a lot of people dislike Mitzi too, so we’re probably in the same boat here!).

I really like it, for any of those names... almost any M name really.

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It's my mom's grandma name. I think it's a very common grandma name nowadays.

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I like it more than Minnie for Minerva. Hmm... I like Mitzi the most though.

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I guess Maria nn Mimi pleases me the ... "most" ?

Too cutesy on a youth, too abrasive on an adult.
Names that are just 2 repeated syllables are kind of annoying.
But people pull off Mimi all the time. It's fine ... I just don't like it.
I like Maria more than Miriam, but I feel like Mimi seems appropriate only to Miriam.

Miriam

Looks incomplete. Miriam, if you must.

I consider it a baby-talk nn, not good on an adult or a child once she starts going to school.
I know of two Mimis. One is around seventy and her real name is Marie. The other is a girl about ten whose real name is I'Myah, pronounced Uh-MY-a.

The one I know is Amelia “Mimi”. I don’t like it much.

I like Mimi. I honestly never thought of it as a nickname! I think of it in the same way I do something like Molly or Sadie - technically they are diminutives but they've moved into being names in their own right.

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I guess if I HAD to pick a full name for Mimi.... Maybe Euphemia?

Hmmm Miriam NN Mimi though I prefer Miri for that one

I love it as a nickname for Marina, Marigold, Monica, or Millicent. Mimi alone sounds like another word for grandma, but it's super cute as a nickname.

So cute

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I think I like it best as a nickname for Mimosa and Minerva.