Marianne?

[Anonymous]

Unless it is Mary Anne, I think you will get a lot of Marian, Miriam, Marion.

Personally I avoided any names like Brandon/Brendan/Braydon or Kathryn/Catherine where there are multiple common versions. My name ends with an H and it’s 50/50 if other people with my name use my spelling or the other spelling. I didn’t want my kids to spend their life saying “I’m Leigh with a GH not Lee” or “I’m Isabella not Isabelle”

[Anonymous]

I love it!

[Anonymous]

I love Marianne and Marianna. If I were using this name, I think I would skip a middle name. Gorgeous all alone.

[Anonymous]

Evokes Leonard Cohen's song So Long, Marianne for me - which is a positive association.

[Anonymous]

I think it's really pretty and she won't be one of 3 in her classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marienne? Kind of a twist and pretty.

It doesn’t need a twist. Good lord. This is how we end up with Khaitelynne.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marienne? Kind of a twist and pretty.

It doesn’t need a twist. Good lord. This is how we end up with Khaitelynne.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s name is Marian, as in Marian the Librarian, and while people do pronounce it as “Miriam” sometimes, generally speaking, I think it suits her and people like it. I haven’t come across any other Marian’s or Marianne’s. I thought about Marianne, I love that name! I love it from “Sense and Sensibility.”

I have a Miriam and she gets called "Marian" all the time. Interesting to know it goes the other way too!

[Anonymous]

OP here. Happy to hear many of you like the name!! It’s bolder than we prefer, but we have a very common last name so would prefer DD to not be Charlotte S. or Isabelle S.

How would you pronounce Marianne? We’d like to pronounce it mah-ri-ANNE and not like Mary-Anne. Is this intuitive?

[Anonymous]

I like it. I also always liked Marielle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Happy to hear many of you like the name!! It’s bolder than we prefer, but we have a very common last name so would prefer DD to not be Charlotte S. or Isabelle S.

How would you pronounce Marianne? We’d like to pronounce it mah-ri-ANNE and not like Mary-Anne. Is this intuitive?

Mary and Anne are two of the most popular names in Christendom, so I don’t see how Marianne is “bold.” But anyway.

I do think you will get a lot of Mary-Anne pronunciations. I get that you want it to be Mah-ri-ANNE as in “Sense in Sensibility,” but keep in mind every time you hear Emma Thompson say that name, she’s not only British, she’s playing a character from the 1800s. You will not get the “running together” sound you are looking for in the United States in 2024. You will get Mary Anne.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Happy to hear many of you like the name!! It’s bolder than we prefer, but we have a very common last name so would prefer DD to not be Charlotte S. or Isabelle S.

How would you pronounce Marianne? We’d like to pronounce it mah-ri-ANNE and not like Mary-Anne. Is this intuitive?

Mary and Anne are two of the most popular names in Christendom, so I don’t see how Marianne is “bold.” But anyway.

I do think you will get a lot of Mary-Anne pronunciations. I get that you want it to be Mah-ri-ANNE as in “Sense in Sensibility,” but keep in mind every time you hear Emma Thompson say that name, she’s not only British, she’s playing a character from the 1800s. You will not get the “running together” sound you are looking for in the United States in 2024. You will get Mary Anne.

I think you will have to work really hard on mahriAnne. Unless I am misunderstanding, I have never heard it that way. I would assume MaryAnne.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marienne? Kind of a twist and pretty.

It doesn’t need a twist. Good lord. This is how we end up with Khaitelynne.

glad some of you not only have absolutely no originality but also actively put down others who do….

[Anonymous]

Dislike. Keep looking!

[Anonymous]

I love it! My friend's three-year-old daughter has that name.