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- From: biddleco@mizar.usc.edu (Susan Biddlecomb)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Girls names - "M"
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:14:29 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1993Jan21.205107.9014@pts1.pts.mot.com> <C1AFv3.Gtr@world.std.com> <1993Jan25.185831.22273@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.185831.22273@cbnewse.cb.att.com> elonich@cbnewse.cb.att.com (diane.e.pedersen) writes:
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- >These mentions of M names have me wondering -- is there
- >anyone naming their daughters Mary anymore?
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- >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?
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- Depends on the neighborhood. About half of Angelica's playmates
- are named "Maria" as the first name but they use their middle names
- to go by.
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