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[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

What does everyone think of the name Mae?

Trendy and cutesy or classic and timeless?

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[neroli.livejournal.com]

My great-grandmother's name was May. Her granddaughter (my aunt) was given the middle name Mae in her honor. So both are family names for me.

However, to me, the spelling does change the feel of the name quite a bit. May is a lovely classic, very fresh and innocent and flower-like. I imagine a little girl in white dress in an old sepia photograph. Changing the spelling to Mae makes it look a little more ordinary, a little more dated. So I don't much care for it with the -e.