Mariel or Marielle

MsAlphaBee123 · April 2012

I have a friend who we are considering naming the baby after. We have spoken with her, asked her and she loves the idea and actually suggested we use it, and even change the spelling if we'd like.

Her name is pronounced Mar-e-elle.(Mar like the ocean) But she said growing up it was often mispronounced : Mare-e-elle. (Mare like a horse) What do you think... should we keep it Mariel, or change it to a more phonetic looking Marielle? Or is it too "out there" and people will just screw it up all the time and we should head back to brainstorming for a different name?

We also considered adding an a at the end: Mariella?

irish city girl · April 2012

Mariel= mare-ee-ell to me. Marielle= mah-ree-ell. So I would change the spelling depending on what pronunciation you want.

rels09 · April 2012

Marielle.

ah625 · April 2012

I'd say it depends on how you want it pronounced. I've always hear Mariel as /Mah ree ul/.

LuvBugMama · April 2012

They both look like mare-ee-el to me (like Ariel in Little Mermaid). I thought the difference was in emphasis (Mariel like Ariel vs Marielle like Mary-ELL). I would spell it differently if I were you, but I don't even know how that would be...? Sorry I'm no help.

EarsToYou · April 2012

Marielle. Mariel looks like Muriel with a switched vowed to me.

beaureve · April 2012

I am not usually a fan of adding extra letters to a name, but possibly Marrielle would make people pronounce it properly

cswatch · April 2012

Marielle

KearaD · April 2012

LuvBugMama:
They both look like mare-ee-el to me (like Ariel in Little Mermaid). I thought the difference was in emphasis (Mariel like Ariel vs Marielle like Mary-ELL). I would spell it differently if I were you, but I don't even know how that would be...? Sorry I'm no help.

Yeah, same here. I don't think you need to change the spelling, though. I think Marielle looks a little prettier, but both spellings are fine.