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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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Topseyt · 14/07/2018 22:15

Utterly ridiculous.

Can you imagine the embarrassment of having to introduce yourself to strangers as Daffodil!

Don't. Just don't.

By the way, I think it was Narcissa in the Harry Potter series, not Narcissus. Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco Margot and wife of Lucius.

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 14/07/2018 22:14

Please don't do that to a child.

SoftBlocks · 14/07/2018 22:14

Tulip is a name and much better IMO.

TheMythicalChicken · 14/07/2018 22:13

Better than her being the 20th Olivia or Amelia in her school I say.

This 💯. Mumsnetters tend to be quite pedestrian in their name choices. Anything remotely unusual and you will be met with claims that the child will be bullied or not taken seriously later in life. This is rubbish.

OP, daffodil is a lovely name 🌼. And Daffie is also a cute abbreviation. The younger generation probably don’t even know who Daffy Duck is.

YoucancallmeVal · 14/07/2018 22:13

I try so hard to not post when the name is that rid8culous but I feel moved to post in this instance. It's ridiculous. Use it as a middle name by all means but as a first name it has no good nicknames and your dc can't redeem herself in anyway. Please override the hormones and rethink!!!

whattheactualfuckery · 14/07/2018 22:13

What's making you think of daffodil? Why are you asking?
I personally think it's an ugly name

Baubletrouble43 · 14/07/2018 22:13

What about dilys? It's welsh and sounds like it could be a shortening of daffodil ( kind of)

NataliaOsipova · 14/07/2018 22:12

My name is Clare. You couldn't come up with anything more dull and boring if you tried.

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.

Somerville · 14/07/2018 22:12

NATALIA OSIPOVA!! I need a Russian ballerina to talk nonsense with me! If you had to be called a daffodil name, would it be Jonquil, Daffodil or Narcissus. Jonquil, right? RIGHT?

(Who wants Gin I've probably had enough.)

reallyanotherone · 14/07/2018 22:11

Cain=vain

reallyanotherone · 14/07/2018 22:11

She will have to be extremely jolly and have an amazing sense of humour

You think? I’d say a daffodil would be cain and self obsessed (as narcissus is the genus for daffodils).

They also poison the water that they stand in when cut. And can be fairly toxic themselves.

So no, not a name i’d choose!

TheHobbitMum · 14/07/2018 22:09

Dear God don't do it

Bouledeneige · 14/07/2018 22:09

It is bad. No doubt.

She will have to be extremely jolly and have an amazing sense of humour.

I'd say find something easier and less funny.

Somerville · 14/07/2018 22:08

That made you howl? You're easily pleased.

It had been coming on ever since Get a puppy / She’ll wander lonely as a cloud / It's your hormones / What: NARCISSUS?!
I properly lost it by the time Buttercup called Daffodil ridiculous. Grin Grin

Pause3FuhFuh · 14/07/2018 22:08

Nooooooooo op

NataliaOsipova · 14/07/2018 22:08

Sorry, no. Don't do it. If you fancy a flowery name, then Rose, Lily, Poppy, Daisy, Marguerite, Iris? Or Fleur?

But Daffodil? Please don't.

Forfolkssake · 14/07/2018 22:03

It's a bit Daffy Duck. However, my youngest daughter has always been adamant that if she has a daughter, she will call her Daffodil! Poppy, Daisy, Tulip, Lily, Hyacinth, Jasmine, Rose, etc.....so why not Daffodil?

reallyanotherone · 14/07/2018 22:02

Narcissus is the botanical name, daffodil the common name.

So same thing really. Which is why i wouldn’t use daffodil as a name, i immediately think of narcissus.

calamariqueen · 14/07/2018 22:02

I suggested this as a joke at the same time as Bacon for a boy when I was pregnant Grin

Emma198 · 14/07/2018 22:02

I came across a Heaven-Leigh! She's an adult now and goes by Leigh. I knew her through work.

KaterynParr · 14/07/2018 22:02

How is it any worse than Iris, Rose or Lily ?

MorrisIsClose · 14/07/2018 22:01

"buttercup54321 - How ridiculous
Howling at the irony."

That made you howl? You're easily pleased.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 14/07/2018 22:00

I don't like it. However if you do I'd advise you to definitely go for it.. Yes its crazy and out there but so what. It's not the first crazy name and it certainly will not be the last.
It also cuts the other way. Do you want her to be one of the many Avas and Olivas
My name is Clare. You couldn't come up with anything more dull and boring if you tried. At least Dafodil has some character to it, also. Rose,Daisy,Jasmine, Poppy Violet are all flower nAmes. No one turns their noses up and pulls a face at those names

Somerville · 14/07/2018 21:59

buttercup54321 - How ridiculous

Howling at the irony.

Please, please, please tell me you specially namechanged for that comment, buttercup

MorrisIsClose · 14/07/2018 21:58

Yes, narcissus is another name for daffodil, which was named after the man who became so obsessed with his own beautiful reflection he couldn't tear himself away and he died staring at himself! Hence where the term narcissism comes from.

You really really don't want to name a child this.