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Polly is adorable. I like it as a nn for names containing "pol" or "paul", but not for Mary.

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Sorry, I can't stand Sukie. It means "b**ches" in my first language.

Polly is cute. I'd like to see it as a nickname for Paulina or Pollyanna. As a full name, I'm not 100% sold on it, but it's better than Sally imo. I think of Polly Pocket and Along Came Polly.

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I like Sukie as a nn, but not by itself. My best friend goes by Suki, and her full name is Soukaina. She's from Morocco. I would considering using Sukie as a nn for Susannah for a child because I think it's cute and would honor my friend in the process.

Polly is marginally charming, but sounds too much like a placeholder name for a parrot.
Sukie sounds like a cow, or a slave name.

I think Polly is really cute, but Sukie does nothing for me, I don’t like the sound of it. My daughter named one of her dolls Polly and the other one Violet.

I think Polly is adorable but there's something about the sound of Sukie that makes me want to vomit. It's gross somehow.

I always kind of liked Polly. But I think it's been too long unfamiliar and is now too much like the prefix poly- for a comeback. Polly ... amorous? Polly ethylene? If I met a Polly, it'd actually come to mind. I also think it doesn't age well and is better as a nickname. Maybe for Apollonia.

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Sukie is alright. Feels a little artificial, kinda like Suri does.

I love Polly and would use it, as a stand-alone or a nn for Mary, Marianne or whatever. Family name for a long-ago and very distant cousin; actually a nn for Mary in her case.

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Sukie is unfamiliar in English but, as Soekie (sounds the same), pretty standard in Afrikaans. So, it's OK but unremarkable.

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I read somewhere that one can date the nursery rhyme quite precisely, because Polly puts the kettle on to make tea, and Sukie takes it off again because the guests leave. And Sukie happens to have been the most popular nn for Susan just when tea-drinking became fashionable, in the 18th century. And Sukie's moment of fame was very brief; unlike that of tea, which continues to this day!

Those names are too cute they make me feel sick. Lol.

Polly is cute, but it's in that weird place for me where it feels too nicknamey for a full name and too manufactured for a nickname. I mean no one gets to Polly by way of Mary now, right?

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Sukie makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Too cutesy

Put the kettle on and took it off again!

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I like them both. I love the idea of a Polly that is short for one of those grand Greek names like Polyxena or Polymnia.

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Sukie is fun and retro. I've never met one but it's always seemed kind of artistic and edgy to me. A lot of those rather babyish diminutives strike me that way, I'm not sure why - like I could easily see a Sukie with purple hair and aggressively modern jewelry at a party telling people about the inherent political violence of 16th century Dutch still lifes or something. Also a Mitzi, a Betsy, a Kiki, a Mimi, a Dodie or Dottie or Lottie.....names like that.

Hate Sukie, it's like pukey or suck. Polly is fabulous, esp. Pollyanna.

Hi !!!

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Both are fairy-like in my mind. Nicknamey, surely. But they are sweet and lively.