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[Opinions] Maisie
Thoughts on Maisie?Is it too cutesy to stand alone?Any ideas why it is getting popular in the UK again? It peaked in 2010 (because of "Game of Thrones", I guess) and then fell quickly but now it's on the rise again.Do you prefer Maisie or May, Mae?Please rate my list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/6232
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I love Maisie / Maisy, it’s such a pretty name. I don’t find it too cutesy to stand alone at all, but then I love a lot of these style of nicknames as full names names. Not sure why it went up in popularity, fell and is rising again, hard to say. I love the name Mae too and May is also sweet, but I prefer Maisie / Maisy. I go back and forth on which spelling I prefer there.
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It's a little bit cutesy imo but not in the unusable kind of way. I can still imagine a doctor or a lawyer named Maisie, like a feisty kind of gal that strives to work in the trenches and serve her local community. Cutesy names seem to just be in at the moment. I prefer Mae myself of those 3, but I tend to like all of them as NNs for Margaret's, Margarettas etc. But they all have the legs to be stand alone names as well.
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It’s very cute, though I’d never personally use it. I think it could stand on its own just fine. I know I’m the outlier here but I also like Maizie / Mazie / Maizy
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Maybe because of the actress/singer Maisie Smith.Maisie is cute, but not something I would use.
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I think Maizie is cute. I would never use it on its own, though. I don't think it ages well.May is nice, but for some reason I can't make myself like it more than I do. It's okay.
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My first thought is Maisie of Morningside who is a little kitten who wears woolly jumpers and kilts. The Maisie books were written by Aileen Paterson I think in the 1980s, 90s and early 2000s.I don’t think it’s too cutesy but I wouldn’t use it myself as I can never shake the image of the kitten in the kilt.
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The spelling looks too cutesy. Maisy looks nicer.
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MaisyI prefer this spelling, for some reason. To all of that I prefer May much more.
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It's short for Mairead if you'd prefer a full that's less cutesie and then use Maisie as a nickname ?Alternatively you could use Margaret or Margo etc

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I like Maisie and May. I think lots of UK names have the cutesy endings eg ie y I Sadie Elsie Archie Alfie Bonnie Ollie
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