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I like Mary on other people but would not personally use it. I find it classy but not quite interesting enough to attract me personally. I know a Mary or two and it has never seemed at all odd or out of place that it would be their name.

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I detest Marie and Maria for the same reasons that I don't like Lynn and Renee. I've almost heard them exclusively as middle name "filler," like middle names given to a child because that's what everyone else was getting and the parents didn't have enough imagination to branch out into anything else.

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I like names that are related to it or derived from it, though, more than Mary itself. Some of them would include Maire, Molly, and Miriam.