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[Opinions] Maria & Co.
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Maria is as common as dirt in Sweden so I can't say I like it. It's boring to me. Marie is very common, too, and so is Marianne.
Mary is mostly found on old people here and I don't like it very much either.
I like Marianthe, Marlotte and Marian.

This message was edited 8/28/2016, 6:55 AM

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I love Maria. It crosses cultures and age groups well.I also love Mary, Mariana, and Marietta.
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I really like Maria, I think it's a good solid girls name. Variants I like: Mary & Marie
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Maria is nice and has a lot of culture behind it. I don't love it though. My favourite variant is Marie, which I like more than Maria.
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I don't like the European way of pronouncing Maria - Mar-ee-a. I quite like the English way, Mar-eye-a, though it's now very old fashioned.I love Mary which I find a very simple and graceful name.I don't really like any of the other versions of Maria, but I do quite like some of the Marian epithets, especially Socorro
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I love Maria. It's also my favourite variant or form of the name. But there are other ones I like as well: Mari (but definitely not Marie), Marija, Mair (my second favourite) and Mairwen, Molly, Marzena, Mailys, Miet, Myra and Annemarie.
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I adore Maria and would use it. I think it is vastly underused outside of the Hispanic and Catholic communities.My favorite variant would be Marian.
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I like it enough! I like Marie, Mia, Mai, Marianne, Anne-Marie, Moira!
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I like Maria, but not enough to use. I do like these variants:Marian
Marianne
Mariah
Marielle
Mae
Mia
Mariam
Marie
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I like the original Egyptian, Merit. It was the name of the first recorded physician in history too.
I also like Rosemary, Miriam, Mirele, and Maia.

This message was edited 8/26/2016, 1:23 PM

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I don't really like it much. I think it's because it rhymes with "diarrhea."
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this is why my husband doesn't like it ...Or at least part of it. I was about to say he even knew a Maria called Diarrhea Maria but I am not sure, I know there was a kid he knew named Andrea who was sometimes called An-diarrhea. She was also called Batteries Included because she never shut up.
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I quite like almost all the Maria-related names. My favorite is the simple Marie. It's one of the reasons I like our dd's middle name, Marikit. It is pronounce -mar-ee-keet. I often call Nadine Marikit by the nickname Nin-Marie. Marisol is lovely, but also so common. I would guess that my next favorite variant would be Marian.
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I do like Maria, but I'm not sure I'd ever use it just because of its incredible popularity, past and present. There are other variants that I'd probably use such as Marielle, Marisa or Marina. They're all lovely, though.
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Hi !!Marina isn't a variant of Maria. It means 'marine, from the sea' but has Latin origin while all Maria/Miriam and other variants have ultimately Hebrew origin.Byeeeeeee
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Some sources say differently. BtN used to say differently. It used to say Marina "Means 'of the sea,' taken from the Latin title of the Virgin Mary, Stella Maris, meaning 'star of the sea.' When you look up Maris, that meaning is still there. To me, Marina means 'of the sea,' however, there's also an association with Mary. Whether the origin is correct or not, the association is there. That's why I included it.BTW, some experts say that Mary's origin is Egyptian rather than Hebrew. Makes sense to me.

This message was edited 8/26/2016, 7:30 PM

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MineHi !!!I dislike Maria but I like some variant...Miriana (Italian for Miriam)
Mary-Jane (so Irish imo)
Maricielo (Spanish)
Marisol (Spanish)
Manon (French)
Marie-Blanche (French)
Annemarie (French)
Marianne (French)Byeeeeeeee
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I like Maria and Mary; I gave my first daughter Mary as a mn after my late MIL, whose mn was Maria - Mary fitted better and there are also Mary people in both our family trees.The problem with Maria where I live is that it shortens to Marie, pronounced MAHri, not maREE. A lot of people are named Maria, but most of them go by either Marie or Mia. Or Ree.I really don't like the maRIEa version, which seems to be formed by adding an H: Mariah. It sounds ugly to me, which is odd because I like soFIEa very much and soFEEa not at all.I'm not keen on Moira, Marion or Marian, but I like Marianne enough to use.
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I have never heard Sofia pronounce as soFIEa before. It's so awkward for me to say, but kind pretty once I manage.
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Technically, I suppose you're right! Sofia is, let's say, a modern Mediterranean spelling and quite rightly sounds like soFEEa. But the Brits use the Sophia spelling and pronounce it soFIEa, just as they used to pronounce Maria as maRIEa; they gave that one up towards the end of the 19th century I think, but they've persevered with Sophia.
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I love Maria, and it's one of those names that could believably belong to a woman or girl of any age and just about any ethnicity or location.
Marie is nice too, especially as a middle name.
Mariah is also pretty, and Marian is nice in a grown-up kind of way.
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A relative of my husband had twins around Christmas, boy and girl; the girl is named Maria.(I think I've mentioned them before.)The boy is Gabriel, named for his paternal grandfather. Older siblings are sisters Grace and Sophia.
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