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  2. Just to add a different note, I’ve traveled to the Moselle region in Germany twice, had wonderful trips, so it’s got a great association in my mind. I briefly considered suggesting it as a name for our girls, but not much (accent on the first syllable), still thought of some of the not-so-nice associations other posters came across too (like Mosul).

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  3. Well, Mozelle is new to me. Can’t say I find it all that appealing. It made me thing mazel (tov) first (which isn’t a bad association/meaning for a name, really)… but I have no idea how it’s supposed to be said.

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  4. It makes me think of an older southern lady, particularly one of the Cajun or Creole persuasion. I kinda like it. I say (moh-ZELL)

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  5. I’d never heard of this name before, and I’m not from the US so I don’t have the Southern associations, but ugh. I find this name quite unattractive.

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  6. I could see it fitting in nicely with today’s Belle named girls (isabelle, anabelle, bella) and with the Z girlls (zoe, zoey, zahara) … Its quirky and fun. When I first looked at it I thought it would be pronounced muh-ZEL and that would fit in with todays isabelle… but MOH-zell sounds too back woods southern for me.

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  7. Sadly, all this name conjures for me is Mosul, Iraq. Just like Janine (an otherwise favorite of mine) sounds like Jenin.

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    1. I didn’t even think of that, C. It’s a fair point – and yet another reason Mozelle is moldering.

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  8. When I was growing up, there was an older lady named Mozelle at my church. Her name was pronounced moh-ZELL.

    Very similar to my grandmother’s name, Ozella.

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  9. How is Mozelle pronounced? MOH-zell, MAWS-ell, muh-ZEL?? Because If it’s the last pronunciation, it could originate from mademoiselle.

    It’s an interesting name, but it seems more fitting for a maiden Great-Aunt.

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    1. Julie, that is a fascinating – and insightful – theory! Trouble is, I’m not certain how to pronounce Mozelle. Joy’s suggestion, of a long o, emphasis on the second syllable, seems most likely, but perhaps not universal.

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  10. All I can see is mozzarella. Sorry, not my style at all. Interesting to find out it was an actual name, though!

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