Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Can I call a girl Floris?

30 replies

ruralmother · 06/01/2018 14:36

Recently stumbled upon the name Floris. Its a boys name (danish, means to blossom). Do you think its usable for a girl?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
hendricksyousay · 06/01/2018 14:48

What about Florin? Florine?

Original poster
ruralmother · 06/01/2018 14:47

Haha, don't hold back raven. Perhaps I should have been more clear....its commonly used as a boys name and is listed as a girls name too but much less common.

OP posts:
daisypond · 06/01/2018 14:45

Floris is a Dutch boys' name too. I don't know about Scandinavia. I would always assume Floris was a boy, but I think you probably could get away with it as a girls' name in the UK. I quite like it.

RavenWings · 06/01/2018 14:43

No. It's florist that lost the t. Or a mashup of Doris/Florence as said above.

Besides, I think the whole idea of taking a name from another language and swapping the gender is stupid - keep it to the cultural usage and spelling. It comes across as a bit thick if the child ever goes to that country or runs into people from it, or like you simply couldn't be arsed to research properly.

SoupDragon · 06/01/2018 14:40

Without any Scandinavian connection, to me it looks like you couldn’t decide between Flora and Doris.