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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse. [/quote]
[b]You are obviously not from the south.  Two of my closest friends are Mary Katherine and Mary Grace.[/b]  I’m Anna Elizabeth (Anna Beth).  I know so many girls with Mary as part of their name. [/quote]
I do as well, none of them are Southern. All are Catholic.[/quote]

+100. [b] Mary Cambpell as a double-barreled name might ring Southern (I know a lot of Southerners that try to shoehorn maiden names once connected to plantations into their daughters' names), but Mary Katherine and Mary Grace are Catholic as the day is long.[/b] And as a Catholic who grew up in Dallas and spent several hours with friends "praying the blood of the Lamb" over me so I would accept Jesus into my heart and be Saved (TM), let me tell you that Catholicism is not really associated with the South.   :lol: [/quote]

No one is saying Mary is not also an Irish Catholic thing (I have multiples in the family). But [u]Mary + mom's maiden name/family name is very much a Southern thing.[/u] Hell, all the ones I know were Chi Os at Ole Miss, to further stereotype.[/quote]

"You are obviously not from the south" PP (not OP) is citing "Mary Katherine" and "Mary Grace" as typically Southern names, not Mary + mom's maiden name.  Those are Catholic names, not Southern.  Irish Catholic communities are strongly associated with northeastern and Rust Belt areas, not the South.  OP's example of Mary Campbell is more southern, as I said in the post you're replying to, but Mary Grace and Mary Katherine are not "Southern" names.[/quote]

Mary Grace and Mary Katherine are not, but that PP also included an Anna + name as an example. And while Mary Katherine is certainly a Catholic name, I know a half dozen double-named women from the South for every Catholic one I know from elsewhere. In my experience, it's far more commonly done there, and I think that was her point.[/quote]

All double-barreled names are not the same, which is the theme of this subthread.  Mary Campbell is qualitatively different from Mary Katherine.  OP holding up Mary Campbell as a Southern name was correct; PP saying Mary Katherine is Southern not so much.  Anna Elizabeth reads southern; Mary Elizabeth reads Catholic.  Double-barreled for the sake of double-barreled is Southern.  Double-barreled Saints' names/graces, particularly with Mary as the first, is Catholic.  You seem to recognize the difference in some posts but then elide it in others.  [/quote]

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