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- From: elonich@cbnewse.cb.att.com (diane.e.pedersen)
- Subject: Re: Girls names - "M"
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:58:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.185831.22273@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Summary: any Mary's anymore?
- References: <1993Jan21.205107.9014@pts1.pts.mot.com> <C1AFv3.Gtr@world.std.com>
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- These mentions of M names have me wondering -- is there
- anyone naming their daughters Mary anymore?
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- One of my stress-relief activities is naming future
- children (although my 2-year-old seems determined to
- ensure that his parents never have the stamina or nerve
- to try again)
-
- "Mary" is a major family name, on both sides of my family
- (my late mother, my dad's mom, a couple of great-great grandmas,
- aunts, cousins, etc.) And my family wasn't even Catholic!
-
- When I was a kid, there were LOTS of girls named Mary.
- Now, I hardly see a birth announcement with that name.
- And I never see any babies named Marie (though it's finally
- cropping up again as a middle name -- remember when
- every other little girl had Marie for a middle name?)
-
- So if I named a daughter Mary, she would be Mary Pedersen,
- which sounds OK, but to my generation is a name akin to
- Jane Doe. And also seems a bit plain, in this era of
- Kaitlin, Jennifer, Meghan, and Nicole. And would a Mary
- automatically be assumed to be Catholic?
-
- --
- Diane Pedersen
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Naperville, Illinois
- att!ihlpe!elonich
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