Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 19:39     Subject: Marianne?
I love it! My friend's three-year-old daughter has that name.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 18:34     Subject: Re:Marianne?
Dislike. Keep looking!
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 18:11     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 18:10     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 18:01     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 17:56     Subject: Marianne?
I like it. I also always liked Marielle.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 17:52     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 11:55     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 11:54     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 11:52     Subject: Marianne?
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
Post 10/24/2024 11:51     Subject: Marianne?
I think it's really pretty and she won't be one of 3 in her classroom.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 11:48     Subject: Marianne?
Evokes Leonard Cohen's song So Long, Marianne for me - which is a positive association.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 11:47     Subject: Re:Marianne?
I love Marianne and Marianna. If I were using this name, I think I would skip a middle name. Gorgeous all alone.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 11:46     Subject: Re:Marianne?
I love it!
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 11:44     Subject: Marianne?
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”