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I like both Mary and Maria, and both are family names. When naming our first daughter, we wanted to use our late mothers' names as mns: my mother had only one given name, and DH's mother (an Afrikaans woman) was Bertha Maria. We eliminated Bertha and decided that Mary would work better with the other names than Maria, so we used it successfully.

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I like Maia/Maya, but I'm a bit conflicted: I prefer Maya but it's so South American that I think I'd use Maia instead, if I had enough daughters.