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I honestly don't like either of these, they don't even seem that timeless to me, just old-fashioned. Like whenever I see there's a character named Mary in a book or movie (that isn't historically based) I always think "wow I guess they forgot to pick a name for the character and just used a filler, what a random choice" and whenever I see a Margaret I think "ok, so this person is supposed to be a a severe, miserable fuddy-duddy, I see". Both names are simultaneously generic and yet also have too many stereotypes attached to them to be truly "timeless" for me. Timeless (for me) is something like Anna or Julia.

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If I *had* to pick on pain of death I guess I'd pick Margaret because I like the meaning and there are more opportunities to call her something that isn't Margaret.