I kind of like the name Marah (it's a real name; it's a form of Mary).
But we have talked a few times about how little care went into naming babies on GL. Like, how many Bills and Billys do you need on one show? Almost everyone named after someone--why? Give them their own names!
Some don't mind it, but I think Alan Michael is awfully clunky. The various attempts to honor Bert Bauer were always disastrous and taken back. (One has to wonder if they decided to make Beth's younger daughter Alan's instead of Rick's so they didn't have to lumber the kid with the name Bernadette). Poor A.J. Chamberlin, who ended up just "J" for whatever reason. Elizabeth, Beth, Lizzie...all in the same family. Why?
Plus, no one stepped back and realized they were giving girls of the same generation names starting with the letter "M" - Marah, Marina, Michelle. That was awkward during the Maryanne Carruthers story (which also started with an "M").
Just give kids cool, fashionable, appropriate for soap opera names. I never understood why they didn't do that.
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