Mara vs Maren
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Anonymous
| Mara means demon or death in Sanskrit, for bad Hindu and Buddhist vibes |
Anonymous
| I prefer Maren over Mara. If you wanted mahr -uh it would need to be spelled Maura. |
Anonymous
| Marta - have loved it since I was 5 and watched Sound of Music |
Anonymous
Maura is beautiful! |
Anonymous
Agree. Mara and Maren found like stupid made up names. Give your children names they can be proud of! |
Anonymous
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I love Maren pronounced Mair-uhn. Mah-ruhn feel’s pretentious and try hard.
There is also Marissa. Mara is ok. |
Anonymous
Except Maura is pronounced mohr-uh. And Moira is pronounced moy-ruh. And both will be mispronounced a lot. |
Anonymous
IME, Moira = moy-ruh, Mara = mah-ruh, and Maura is either mohr-uh or mah-ruh depending on the regional accent. Similar to loh-ren vs law-ren. |
Anonymous
I associate that name with Marta Károlyi so I wouldn't name even a rodent that. |
Anonymous
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I prefer Mara. It’s a nice name although some will say “Mare-uh.”
What about Mia or Maya? |
Anonymous
That's the problem with these names. They each have an origin and "correct" pronunciation, but in the US in particular you see a wide variety of interpretations. To me, if someone pronounces Maura as mah-ruh, it's wrong to my ears because it's my grandmother's name and she would correct anyone who pronounced it that way. She'd rather someone pronounce it mou-ruh (like ou as in ouch) than mah-ruh. I stayed away from names like this when naming my DD because I just didn't want her to spend her entire life either correcting other people's pronunciation or accepting that people pronounce her name three different ways because it's easier than constantly correcting. I really like the names Mara, Laura, Thea, Rhea, Alicia, Alana, Kara/Cara, Camilla, and Meghan, but every one of them has at least two pronunciations and I just didn't want to deal with it. We chose a name that has exactly one correct pronunciation in the US and where even in other countries, the pronunciation is extremely close and would not result in confusion with another name. |
Anonymous
| I have horrible associations with Mara--it's my sister in law's name. I was told it means "bitter." She's neuro-diverse or something, but not in a lovable, good way, like on a TV show. She's so self-absorbed and awkward and phony. Apologies to anyone named Mara who's reading this. People may have initial associations with a particular name but then if the person is good they'll just come to associate the name with something good, is what I think about names. |
Anonymous
| What about Mary? It's so old it's new again and no one uses it anymore so it's unique at this point. You could even go with a middle name like Mary Kate, Mary Beth, Mary Margaret, etc. Or just Mary. |
Anonymous
| Maren is Scandinavian, right? |