Girl's name Florence, Vera Lynn or Hope ? please help!

[947EliseChalotte]

In covid times is it ok to call a new baby girl Florence ..after Florence nightingale Hope or Vera Lynn. Which do you prefer?

@947EliseChalotte

Our children will tell their grandchildren / great grandchildren all about covid19 and they will learn about and it may even be in their GCSE papers. They will learn about Captain Tom, Boris, Joe Wicks and Vera Lynn and clap the NHS every Thursday etc. That's why I thought it would be nice and in years to come & would look good written on the family tree. Reading through the replies I am thinking of going for something different now..... Grace Violet (after NHS rainbow) A boy would have been so much easier..Joe, Tom or Alexander ( Alex) which is Boris' middle name x Thank you for all your replies x

or wilfred if baby is a boy?

What @homeishere said!

Imagine naming your child after a racist, nasty elitist like our prime minister.

Are you quite young OP? I think perhaps you need to read about what’s happening in the world a bit more to gain perspective.

Florence is nice my great grandmother was called Florence.

Vera my gran was called Vera and the name just never suited her.

Hope is nice name.one of my friends has just had a granddaughter called hope.

@QueenArseClangers

"Read about what's happening in the world a bit more"...

Seriously? Could you get any more patronising?

And if OP did do as you suggest, should she be then throwing up names like Malala, Greta, Hillary?

Give me a break.

There will probably be a rash of little Veras soon, so it would almost certainly date her (if you are bothered about such things) but for my money it’s one of the un-loveliest of old-lady names. (Only Mabel and Gertrude are worse IMO)
Not that I’m keen on old-lady names at all, except perhaps for the flower names, since I’m old enough to associate them with wizened, whiskery old great-aunts smelling of mothballs.

I do quite like Florence, though.
Lynn is a relic of the 60s IMO.

@CloudsCanLookLikeSheep
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Amazed i could contribute to this thread.

Verity is nice and could be Vera for short. Florence and Hope are both pleasant though I like Florence best.

None of them - they're in the Great Aunt Ethel category.

Can you really imagine a successful 30 year old called Flo(ssie) or Vera?

Hope is probably the best of the bunch.

Florence is nice

Florence or Hope

• lots of Florences in my DD's primary school (at least 5)

Cicely?

One of my dd's friends is Cicely but is called Sissy.

www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/damecicelysaunders/

Name for the founder of the hospice movement.

Vera is such an ugly name.

Hope is a name I’ve seen a lot for premature babies.

"Our children will tell their grandchildren / great grandchildren all about covid19"

Doubt it

How about Alanis Borisette?

My first thoughts:

Vera Lynn = Gin! (Also always makes me think of an old, cigarette smoking, grumpy old lady, even though I know the actual Vera Lynn was beautiful!)

Hope = The comedy series "Raising Hope", so also a nope!

Florence = Aunty Flo jokes...

Sorry...

Florence is nice. I know a Florence nicknamed Florrie which is sweet. Flo is absolutely awful so would worry it would get shortened to that.

Definite no to Vera Lynn.

I think the OP should choose the name Wuhanna. Original and relevant

MitziK I doubt I am much younger than you, I'm 60 and lived in London all my life. Vera Lynn definitely used to mean Gin but rhyming slang, like the rest of the English language, is evolving and being added to all the time. My proudest invention was Kerry Packered for knackered. Danny Dyer makes them up too but VL = gin is definitely an old one that must have evolved
www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/vera_lynn

What Edith after Edith Cavell a nurse famous for nursing without discrimination - very fitting for 2020.

I'd google Indigo child before going for that name OP.

If you want a heroic name, what about Jacinda after New Zealand's Prime Minister?

@GinDaddyRedux I’ve noticed your, often goady, comments on threads.
As your name suggests you seem to be a bloke who likes nothing more than patronising women on MN.

@SleepOhHowIMissYou Jacinda is a lovely name

[quote QueenArseClangers]@GinDaddyRedux I’ve noticed your, often goady, comments on threads.
As your name suggests you seem to be a bloke who likes nothing more than patronising women on MN.[/quote]
I concur!

All awful (IMO)

Unprecedented is also a really good name. I can imagine future generations talking about Auntie Unprecedented and telling the story of where her name from.

If that’s a bit too ‘out there’ maybe go for something like Sanitiser, Sanny for short?

@Yankathebear

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Jacinda is a genuinely nice name. Don't like any of the 3 suggested, though Hope is the least bad. Florence is completely Magic Roundabout (though I suppose it leads to great names for boys if you have any more, like Zebedee or Douglas) and Vera Lynn, just no.