Full names?

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

What are some full names for the nickname Maisie? (Pronounced MAY-zee; for a girl, although it is also a pet name for my husband, James, for weird reasons I don't understand).
 
Behindthename.com says it's a shortened form of the name Mairead, which is Scottish for Margaret.

WDYT?

Comments

[whenimdead.livejournal.com]

Maislyn?

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

I would use Margaret, but I think that anything that starts with Ma would be okay. Maude, Madeline etc.

[aimeewins.livejournal.com]

Madison maybe? they both have the "s" in them...

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Margaret
Mary
Mackenzie?

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I'd use it as a nickname for May...more of an playful, around-the-house sort of nickname. As an actual shortened version of something, I can't think of anything besides Margaret.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I just think that Maisie sounds like a cow's name. No, not a fat woman, an actual cow. Maisie, Daisy, Bessie. I have no idea what it would be short for.

[jyl-mac.livejournal.com]

Although it may sound childish, I think Maisie stands alone as a first name. Maybe spell it Maizee instead.

I think of the little sister in Uncle Buck!

[searlait.livejournal.com]

May-zee
Macy

[searlait.livejournal.com]

I'm not fully caffeinated yet, I thought you wanted pronunciations.

[tunknut.livejournal.com]

I know a Margaret who goes by Maisie, which I like because it's a nice adult-sounding formal name to fall back on. Really I think it works as a nickname for any M name because it's not really intuitive for any particular name.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

My great-grandmother's proper first name was Bessie.

Granted, she hated it so much she wound up going by her middle name and being buried just as Norma.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Marcy
Mason (if you're into the boy names on girls thing)
Marissa