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[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

What do you think about the combo Miriam Marie? Too many M sounds, or does it work? Big brother is Henry.

(Marie isn't for lack of creativity, it'd be for my grandmother.)

ETA: Thank you all for your opinions! The middle name means more to me than the first, so it's back to the drawing board. ;D

Comments

[fatinah-aila.livejournal.com]

as far as i know miriam is another form of marie/mary. so i wouldn't use this combo.

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

Yes, too many M sounds.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

too many Ms and the names just sound way too similar to me. It would be like naming a kid Amy Amanda or Mitchel Michael or something like that, IMO.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

It's not so much that there are too many M sounds, it's more that the names sound pretty similar to me. Miriam and Marie have a similar cadence and vowel sound to me.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Miriam is a form of Marie, so it would be quite a gaffe.
I love both names, but they need to be used separately.
First cousins wouldn't be apart enough to be carrying the names.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be redundant and say that I agree: too many M sounds.
I do like Miriam, though.

[loanwords.livejournal.com]

I actually like a lot of M sounds. My future daughter is going to be a MMM. :x Mostly because, like you, I had a grandmother named Marie and my daughter will bare that name no matter what.

But I don't like Miriam and Marie together, as they sound so similar.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with a lot of M sounds in the name in general. It's the repeated M in the middle I have a problem with - it makes it sound like there's really only one, so it's like Miriam Arie, kind of.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

It sounds like two different versions of the same name.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that they both have the same origin, both coming from Mary. Besides that, I think it's too many M sounds; it's the middle one that's too much. Miriam and Henry are nice together, so I might go about finding a different middle name.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's too many M sounds- I think it flows really well. But it does seem a bit odd since the names are both forms of Mary (or come from that originally).