There is a
Jane Austen book with the name
Maria, however it is pronounced as
Mariah. Obviously, nowadays it would be impossible to get people to pronounce
Maria that way. My problem is that with using
Mariah it would tend to look like I am a fangirl of
Mariah Carey, as that is what people automatically think of the name.
Do you think
Moriah could be effectively used to stave off the
Mariah Carey comments or would it still garner the type of attention I don't want?