I'm a 42 year old Marilyn. I love my name, always have. My only problem with it is that people usually mispronounce it. So whenever I say "That's not how I pronounce it" they either correct me or very rudely tell me that I don't know how to pronounce my own name. The only place where people seem to pronounce it the way I do is in England. Most people in the South in the States where I now live, they pronounce it Mary-Lyn as opposed to Mar-ill-in, like someone posted before. It really drives me crazy.