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Thoughts on name daffodil

185 replies

Sarahgrace123 · 14/07/2018 21:09

Ever since I was a little girl my favorite flowers were daffodils and I really like creative names so I was thinking the name daffodil for my new daughter. What are your honest thoughts? Is it to “out there”? Because daffie would be a really cute nickname but my sister and dad don’t like it that much. Opinions???

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mulberrymelody · 15/07/2018 07:44

You have a very varied list there op
Sorry, but l don’t like like them...
I like Cora .... it goes nicely with
Rose
Beth
Louise
Smile

ProfessorMoody · 15/07/2018 07:44

I like variations on your names. I prefer Estella. Shay is awful. I know a "Jammy" who is the most adorable little girl. It's short for Jasmine but the school staff really take the piss about it.

I know too many dogs called Scout and Coco.

Poppy and Phoebe are nice and Adelaide is very popular at the moment.

MadMaryBoddington · 15/07/2018 07:36

I like Daffodil. But then I seriously considered Narcissa and Anemone - I had threads on here about both. I was talked out of it, but I still like them.

Not keen on any of your new list.

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Sarahgrace123 · 15/07/2018 06:21

Thank you all for your input, I still like the name daffodil but still like less traditional names aswell, please leave your thoughts on these names

Stella
Eilidh
Scout
Coco(short for Colette)
Jami
Eliana
Poppy (short for Penelope)
Gracelynn
Pheobe
Amaryllis
Shay
Adalie

Thank you all for your feedback and I might still use daffodil as a middle name and I am a big fan of double names so please leave those suggestions

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LovelyBranches · 14/07/2018 23:45

How about Nanci (This is a Welsh spelling), it’s inspired by Narcissus and Welsh in spelling which seems appropriate given that daffodils are our national flower.

Hippopotas · 14/07/2018 23:42

I like it but then daffodils are my favourite flowers.

Ericho · 14/07/2018 23:35

Oh ffs, grow up. You're naming a person, who will need to grow up, get an education and have a career.

You're not naming an eternally young and adorable baby.

Smidge001 · 14/07/2018 23:23

I actually really quite like the name daffodil. Unfortunately though, I'm sure throughout high school she'd get called daffo-dildo.

Somerville · 14/07/2018 23:17

I didn't actually mean that type of high-jinks, but now it's so late there's no time for any other type I suppose... As long as he doesn't object to the crumbs I've left in the bed. (Sobering up with toast.)

Ginevra - back to Harry Potter names!
I know a little Juniper actually. (My father said to her dad 'oh, it's the posh version of calling a child Chardonnay!' and got my parents dropped from their xmas card list!)

NataliaOsipova · 14/07/2018 22:41

Or they could be my favoured Narcissus, and Nasturtium.

Florals are so passé. What about (on a tennis theme as seems appropriate today) Nastase? Or Nietzsche? Or Nostradamus?

Sounds like high jinks may be on the menu for later? Wink. You can't beat a tot of gin!

Juniper!! Or Ginevra? Why didn't I think of that before.....?

Somerville · 14/07/2018 22:33

Diplodocus would be the twin brother.
Daffy and Dippy - cute!

Or they could be my favoured Narcissus, and Nasturtium.

I'd say more commiserating than celebrating...
Older kids with GPs, baby (mostly) asleep, high-jinks planned for the evening with DH... and he's delayed.
So I ordered Deliveroo and got the gin out.

sue51 · 14/07/2018 22:28

For your child's sake; hell no.

butlerswharf · 14/07/2018 22:25

She'd be called Daffy Duck. Not great.

Tinywhale · 14/07/2018 22:25

I think sometimes people forget that they are naming a human being for life, rather than a pre-schooler for 4 years.

FWIW, I feel much the same way about Poppy. Great for pets, less so for humans.

UrsulaPandress · 14/07/2018 22:24

I like it.

NataliaOsipova · 14/07/2018 22:24

It'd be like calling her Dippy.

She could be Diplodocus on formal occasions....?

MrsEricBana · 14/07/2018 22:24

But daffy means silly/mildly eccentric. It'd be like calling her Dippy.

slapmyassandcallmejudy · 14/07/2018 22:22

Imagine this....

"Do you John Smith... take thee.... DAFFODIL.. to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

Or

Or being introduced to her colleagues on her first day of her first job "guys I'd like you to meet our newest member of the team, DAFFODIL"

Just don't do it.

NataliaOsipova · 14/07/2018 22:21

Somerville. More tonic, darling. More tonic.

Celebrating or commiserating ce soir? Hopefully the former?

Polly2345 · 14/07/2018 22:21

I love it!

PurpleFlower1983 · 14/07/2018 22:19

No, it’s a rabbit’s name!

TiltedTowers · 14/07/2018 22:19

I also laughed at the suggestion of narcissus being better!

Somerville · 14/07/2018 22:18

Rhododendron. Or Magnolia.

I like Gladiolus. And Chyrsthemum too tipsy to spell it.

reallyanotherone · 14/07/2018 22:16

I have a similarly boring name. But if we are asked for our name, you can guarantee that nobody sniggers. Or asks how to spell it. There's something nice about that, I think

I think you need to ask how people spell their names anyway. Doesn’t matter how boring the name may be- Clare can be Claire, or Clair, and nowadays with spelling gettin “kreeativ” god knows what people come up with.

I have a boring 80’s name along the lines of clare, sarah, rebecca. I am still asked how to spell it.

NataliaOsipova · 14/07/2018 22:15

Somerville. Definitely Jonquil out of those three. I quite agree....

But I think if I could have any flowery name, I'd go for Rhododendron. Or Magnolia.