Please give my DD a great, rocking middle name!

[Anonymous]

Mary Iris

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could go with the muses Calliope, Clio, or Thalia. I’d avoid the others. You could also use Athena or Minerva, or one from a less familiar mythology. Here’s Wikipedia’s list of art deities from around the world, and the page for muses:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_deities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses
Nameberry has a list of names from mythology that you might like (Aurora, Chloe, Phoebe, Calypso, Ariadne, etc.)
https://nameberry.com/list/433/goddess-baby-names

I’ve always loved the name Eleanor. It reminds me of 2 amazing women: E. Roosevelt and E. of Aquitaine. It’s a pretty name, conventional enough to be easily pronounced and spelled, and has a lot of potential nicknames the child can choose from.

You could use Davi (for Da Vinci) or Renee/Renai for Renaissance.

Georgia (O’Keefe)

If you like blue, you could go with a specific shade - Azure, Cyan, Indigo, Sapphire, Periwinkle, or even Lavender (dilly, dilly)

Misc. names I like: Aiden, Linnet, Paloma

Two of my dogs' names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary Rainer (after Rainer Maria Rilke - my all time favorite poet!).

I so wanted to name my DD Rainer but DH vetoed it big time.

Please tell me you know Rainer was a man.

Of course! But we just had our one-and-only and she’s a girl.

I'm quite willing to bet (unless you are a native German speaker) that you can't pronouce it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What vibe are you into? Hesitant to recommend anything funky since Mary implies conservative catholic.

OP here. We are neither conservative nor Catholic! We’re art lovers but not artists; music lovers but not musicians. We’re both huge readers and athletic. City dwellers. Both PhD’s (different fields). And tall (not that that matters 😂).

Mary Cassatt seems an obvious choice....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mary Rainer (after Rainer Maria Rilke - my all time favorite poet!).

I so wanted to name my DD Rainer but DH vetoed it big time.

Please tell me you know Rainer was a man.

Of course! But we just had our one-and-only and she’s a girl.

I'm quite willing to bet (unless you are a native German speaker) that you can't pronouce it.

Just stop, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mary Louise
Mary Rose
Mary Christine
Mary Elizabeth
Mary Hannah
Mary Catherine

Whoa! You totally missed the point!

[Anonymous]

Mary Rainer or Mary Love.

[Anonymous]

Mary Blue is great! I like Mary Rainer too but Mary Blue Lang-Miller speaks to me.