Arden or Mae ?

[Anonymous]

Arden is a boy’s name.

[Anonymous]

Use Mae but make it a nickname for:
Mary
Margaret
Mabel
Mauve
Maeve
Margot
Maryann

[Anonymous]

I love the name Arden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dislike both for different reasons. Arden strikes me as faux pretentious and Mae strikes me as kind of country... I guess I'd go with Mae if I had to choose?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arden is a boy’s name.

Arden is a unisex name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_(name)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use Mae but make it a nickname for:
Mary
Margaret
Mabel
Mauve
Maeve
Margot
Maryann

+ 1 to Maeve with Mae/May as a nickname.

[Anonymous]

Mae is more of a middle name. And Arden is just ugly. What else is on your list?

[Anonymous]

Hard agree that Mea is a nickname. I know a very cute Mae whose full name is Mabel. Giving a nn as a stand alone name is typical of people in lower socioeconomic classes. I would not do this to your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both are trying too hard. Arden will be teased and called Elizabeth Arden (my dd has a teammate named Arden who is teased). Mae will be misspelled and just sounds like a nn

You think any kid born in this decade will have any clue who/what Elizabeth Arden is?? Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hard agree that Mea is a nickname. I know a very cute Mae whose full name is Mabel. Giving a nn as a stand alone name is typical of people in lower socioeconomic classes. I would not do this to your child.

What does this even mean

[Anonymous]

Mae is much prettier than Arden!!!

[Anonymous]

Mae means “mom” in Portuguese

[Anonymous]

Mãe is the literal word for “mom” in Portuguese

[Anonymous]

Are these coming from the October Daye series?

[Anonymous]

My middle name is Mae and I’ve had to spell it for people my whole life but I still love it. It was my mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers middle name too.

That said I’ve always loved the Celtic name Maeve.

Maeve Ma****** would be nice, I think.