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Mae was one of my mother's mns and she despised it to the point of leaving it off my birth certificate! Her feelings on the name colored mine for awhile, however, now I really like it. I don't care for the May spelling because it looks like the verb. OTOH, Mae is sweetly and gently old fashioned. I'm not sure I'd ever use it since there are so many mns I like better yet I agree with you that the simplicity of the name is stunning. I feel the same about Eve.

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I've known people named Autumn who weren't born in the autumn and people named Summer who weren't born in the summer. It's not the end of the world although I have to admit, it would bug me if people kept asking me about when I was born. I think May/Mae is different in that it has been a name for such a long time that people may not associate it with the month. Still, I'm dying to use Maia for a kitten so if I ever come across one born in the month of May, you can guess what her name would be!

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My main thought with August and May for siblings is that they're noticeably month names. That would bother me more than them being born outside August and May.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This message was edited 4/2/2018, 8:13 AM