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Flora or Clover, which name is the butter one?!

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Redballoonfan · 12/09/2012 07:12

We like both, not a wind up honestly!

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Startailoforangeandgold · 12/09/2012 22:54

I was avoiding mentioning that one.

EdithWeston · 12/09/2012 22:10

This thread has brought back mentors of raucous singing of "Roll Me Over In The Clover" by the school rugby players in the back of a bus!

waitingimpatiently · 12/09/2012 21:40

My daughter is called Flora, people got used to it. We get many compliments about it in the street (although occasionally gets confused for Laura and once, Gloria...) It is a beautiful name and we can't imagine our baby as anything else. As well as it being a well known margarine brand, Flora was also the Greek goddess of flowers and springtime and Flora McDonald was a Scottish heroine (I think...).

Not keen on Clover though, I knew a Clover and she was a bit of a dumbass who kept changing her name to Chloe.

TerracottaPie · 12/09/2012 21:28

Clover is indeed a cow's name.

I had one as a child Grin

I did so love her.

Her daughter was Clover 2

GoldPedanticPanda · 12/09/2012 13:59

Neither.

DangerMousey · 12/09/2012 13:58

I used to know a horrible bitch colleague who'd named her twin girls Daisy and Clover!!! I am not kidding. The mistake couldn't have been made by a nicer woman though...!

AlwaysHoldingOnToStars · 12/09/2012 13:14

Clover, I love it, love What Katy Did. It's a gorgeous name.

I like Flora too, and if I met a girl by either name I wouldn't think of butter.

WhatYouLookingAt · 12/09/2012 12:39

"These are my girls, Flora and Clover, and their brothers Lard and Cookeen"

SoupDragon · 12/09/2012 11:45

That aside, my first thoughts on hearing Clover are the flower, not the spread. Not so with Flora.

SoupDragon · 12/09/2012 11:44

Only butter is butter.

How about Kerrygold?

CloversMama · 12/09/2012 11:42

I have a Clover and I think it is a lovely name (obviously!) (Oh, and I'm a Katy, so you can see what books are popular in my family...)

mamaLou13 · 12/09/2012 09:24

I know a girl called Flora and she absolutley hated her name, everyone called her Flossie but they are both butter (well margerine). Imo Clover is much nicer. Don't like Flora much at all.

BikeRunSki · 12/09/2012 09:03

I had a good friend at school called Flora and I don't remember much margarine based teasing, but she did have a v cool big sister (Polly) so had protection by association with big, cool kids.

I prefer Flora (probably by association with big, cool kids).

Floggingmolly · 12/09/2012 08:55

Which be is the butter one? They're both butter; why would you want to name your child after a lump of lard?

wordfactory · 12/09/2012 08:54

Flora is nice but I know a fair few now.
Clover is very pretty and relatively unusual I think.

PS I love Sorrel.

Himalaya · 12/09/2012 08:52

Clover is hippier, Flora is posher/more old school

StellaNova · 12/09/2012 08:48

"Clover ...was a fair sweet dumpling of a girl with thick pig-tails of light brown hair and short-sighted blue eyes which seemed to hold tears just ready to fall from under the blue. Really Clover was the jolliest little thing in the world; but these eyes and her soft cooing voice always made people feel like petting her and taking her part... Clover was sunny and sweet-tempered a little indolent and very modest about herself though in fact she was particularly clever in all sorts of games and extremely droll and funny in a quiet way. Everybody loved her and she loved everybody especially Katy whom she looked up to as one of the wisest people in the world."

pictish · 12/09/2012 08:47

What about Sorrel?

I liked that for dd but again dh said no. I still like it.

IawnCont · 12/09/2012 08:45

Benecol for a boy?

I prefer Clover. Though, I do think Meadow is nice, and it's kind of similar

StellaNova · 12/09/2012 08:44

I love Clover from What Katy Did as well, I know a little Elsie and I was thinking of Clover when wondering what other Carr names might be nice to use (what was Dorry short for anyway, Theodore?). I would always think "Clover Carr" and had never even considered the buttery spread!

Flora does make me think butter when by itself but not when it is a child; for what its worth I have met a few little Floras but no Clovers.

pictish · 12/09/2012 08:41

My mum hated being called, Flo, Florrie and especially Floss.

Whoever it was there flippantly taking the piss by suggesting Marmite and Nutella and so on...it is easy to see where kids sometimes get their ideas from isn't it?

marshmallowpies · 12/09/2012 08:36

I loved Clover from the What Katy Did books, but Flora has the advantage of being more of an established proper name, and could be shortened to Flo, Florrie or Flossie.

Startailoforangeandgold · 12/09/2012 08:35

There are loads of pretty flower and nature inspired names, personally I'd look again.

Badgerina · 12/09/2012 08:26

They're both lovely. I think Flora has the edge over Clover, though.

I wouldn't worry about the "margarine" associations. Whichever name you choose will become "your daughter", and quite frankly there are a million and one other things that children will use as potential teasing-material. My son has long hair and wears DMs to school and gets called "Punk Rock Boy" (as if that's even an insult Hmm)

TudorJess · 12/09/2012 07:59

Both

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