Daphne or Josephine?

[MissHavishamsDress]

I love both but dh feels that Josephine is too commonplace and we might fight over nicknames, as I love Posy and he doesn't. He favours Daphne. Which do you prefer?

Do you know any young girls with either name?

I'd forgotten that until now millymae!

ok, according to 13yr old dd - both absolutely awful, hideous, immediately makes her think of old people and scooby doo. sorry x

Neither. They are both horrible - sorry.

I love Daphne. Do it. There'll be no other Daphnes in the class.

I like Daphne. Puts me in mind ofsophisticated chic and movie stars of past glamourous eras. I don't think of Scooby Doo or nn Daffy etc at all. I think French, beautiful girl wearing chic LBD with pearls, Audrey Hepburn.

Josephine is also nice. There's lots of potential for nn (Jo, Jo-Jo, Josie, Posy, Phina). I like Posy. It makes me think of a posy of flowers, what could be prettier! It's good to be different

Josephine is lovely and lends itself to a number of nns, should you want to shorten it.

Don't like Daphne - it makes me think immediately of Daphne Broon in The Broons

You have to go with Josephine, that way everytime she says 'Mu-uuum can I stay up to watch X-Factor' (or similar) you get to say 'Not tonight, Josephine' and chuckle to yourself like a loon.

Years of endless fun to look forward to

Love Daphne. Will use it if I have a DD. Know it raises eyebrows though!

Josephine is SO due a comeback!

I have a Delphine! We call her Delphy for short. I think its an elegant name for an older girl / woman, and Delphy is cute for a little one. Never thought for one minute people would think it 'cheap sounding'.

Am so at your Delphine - it's beautiful . Sadly vetoed by DH, the swine.

Both are fab but I prefer Daphne.

Josephine is lovely!

I love Daphne and I agree with baublepink re the associations.

Josephine is nice enough but not a personal favourite.

Have you considered Penelope? It seems to be the perfect compromise between these two names as it is long and elegant with plenty of nick names, like Josephine and arises from Greek mythology like Daphne.

I love Daphne - reminds me of the pretty one in Scooby Doo1

I like both but prefer Josephine.

Daphne is certainly underused and a very pretty nature name.

I really like both but think I slightly prefer Daphne because it's shorter and is one of my favourite plants.

Josephine (Josie as nn)

I love both and also think they go well together:
Daphne Josephine
Josephine Daphne

I also thought of Some Like It Hot, but in a good way! I like them both.

both Sassy and VERY feminine.
Makes me want twin daughters!

Daphne

daphne reminds me of old people and mothballs.

Phew, thanks for comments. Think we are def going for Daphne,now, as dh doesn't like the nn Posy for Josephine blah blah so despite some of the negative comments, we're agree with baublepink and looby lu, and also love the beguilingly scented Daphne plant. We're happy to break the mould and are confident that any future dd would carry her name off with her own style! Now for middle names:

thinking Daphne Luna
or Daphne Lilac
possibly Daphne Penelope (Penelope's my mother's name looby loo) - but would they both be too similar?

I like Daphne a lot. Really not keen on Josephine as I don't like feminised male names (it rather suggests we can't even have a name of our own but have to draw on those of blokes to me). In fact, I vastly prefer Josette (nn Josie) to Josephine as I think it is prettier, but there you are.