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HelpRe: Mitchell or Marshall?
in reply to a message by queenv
I like them both, but I would use Marshall, and not Mitchell. I never get them confused.
There's an older couple on my block (70s) whose surname is Mitchell, and the man goes by Mitch. Everyone calls him that, even his wife. I think it's a spiffy name for an old guy although it would not appeal to me on a kid. Their daughter named her son Mitchell, and he goes by Mitchell. The kid is now about ... 13? I think. It seems like a good name on him. He's a cute kid.
I think one reason I don't like Mitchell that much is because it seems especially surnamey - it's too obviously a form of Michael, and so I wanna know why not Michael. My neighbors have good reasons, but I don't. The other things I don't like about it are that Mitch sounds dated, like Gary or Steve, and also it resembles Michelle a little too much.
Marshall was on our short list for a boy - probably name #4 or 5 if we hadn't agreed on something else - and I'm sure we would have used it as a middle name if we had had two boys because my husband wanted to honor a Marshall. I even think Marsh is cool. March is a GP of mine. Somehow, it does not bother me that Marshall sounds like Marsha, or that it is dated, or that it means military - I would name those things as reasons to dislike it if I disliked it, but I like it enough that I don't care about them.
- mirfak
There's an older couple on my block (70s) whose surname is Mitchell, and the man goes by Mitch. Everyone calls him that, even his wife. I think it's a spiffy name for an old guy although it would not appeal to me on a kid. Their daughter named her son Mitchell, and he goes by Mitchell. The kid is now about ... 13? I think. It seems like a good name on him. He's a cute kid.
I think one reason I don't like Mitchell that much is because it seems especially surnamey - it's too obviously a form of Michael, and so I wanna know why not Michael. My neighbors have good reasons, but I don't. The other things I don't like about it are that Mitch sounds dated, like Gary or Steve, and also it resembles Michelle a little too much.
Marshall was on our short list for a boy - probably name #4 or 5 if we hadn't agreed on something else - and I'm sure we would have used it as a middle name if we had had two boys because my husband wanted to honor a Marshall. I even think Marsh is cool. March is a GP of mine. Somehow, it does not bother me that Marshall sounds like Marsha, or that it is dated, or that it means military - I would name those things as reasons to dislike it if I disliked it, but I like it enough that I don't care about them.
- mirfak
This message was edited 7/26/2016, 9:22 PM
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