mickeymouse93 said:
Mary well I have no clue what my name means!
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MARY. Someone said recently that if you want to give your daughter a really unusual name nowadays, pick Mary. A true irony for the name that for centuries had been by far the most popular and enduring female Christian name in the English-speaking world (as were Maria and Marie in the Spanish and French) at least until the 1950s. That was when Mary was finally dethroned by such trendy upstarts as Linda and Karen. The Greek and New Testament form of the Hebrew Miriam via the Latin Maria in earliest times Mary was considered too sacred to be used by ordinary mortals, associated as it was with the cult figure of the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. It finally began to be used in England in the 12th century, and by the 16th had blanketed the female population, to the point where dozens of pet forms had to be contrived for the simple sake of distinguishing one Mary in the family from the others. There was a hiatus due to the odious religious persecutions of Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), but then the name was back, bigger than ever, classless and ubiquitous. In this country, Mary has always been a scrubbed-faced good-girl name (to the tune of "Oh what a pal was Mary"), even in the '40s and '50s, when an infusion of energy was attempted with any number of middle name add-ons from MARY LOU and MARY JO to MARY JANE and MARY BETH. Mary was unstoppably pure, as reflected still in those '6os and '70s icons of propriety and wholesomeness, Mary Poppins and Mary Tyler Moore. Numerous future celebrities in fact dropped their birth names of Mary for something that seemed more glitzy, among them Bo Derek, Debbie Reynolds, Sissy Spacek, Lauren Hutton, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin, while others have returned to it for their daughters in an effort, perhaps, to reclaim its moral imperative, including Paul McCartney and the same Meryl Streep who had dropped it for herself. Today, Mary remains fashionable only among upmarket Southerners and Catholics, who use Mary as a silent first name to i
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