Please give my DD a great, rocking middle name!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you thought about using your mother's or grandmother's maiden name? That would be meaningful while avoiding the cutesy Mary Jane/Mary Alice problem.

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[Anonymous]

Mary Love
Mary Rain
Mary River
Mary Soleil
Mary Bird

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Nyx

[Anonymous]

Mary Christmas.

Rockin!

[Anonymous]

Jeez, maybe the kid can just join a cult or a hair khrisna cult (the crazy ones in the U.S. not normal ones in India) based on these suggestions!

[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 😂).

Since your tall Bean, as in beanstalk.

[Anonymous]

Zebra

[Anonymous]

I know several cool Mary’s.

Mary Rose
Mary Frances
Something similar to Mary Pierce (family last name)

[Anonymous]

Mary Prankster

[Anonymous]

A friend's daughter has Stormbreaker as her middle name, which is pretty wonderful.

[Anonymous]

Lyric, Harmony

[Anonymous]

I like Mary Catherine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mary Elliot
Mary Sloane
Mary Brynn
Mary Hazel
Mary Ellis
Mary Lyra
Mary Simone
Mary Dove
Mary True

Lots of good ideas, but I especially like these. And I love Mary!

[Anonymous]

You absolutely do not need a middle name (I never had one and it didn’t matter at all).

But if you must, my vote is Mary Indigo