Iris or Beatrix?

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There is still sometime to change my mind but atm I am getting there with a boys name.

So I'm between Iris and Beatrix for a girl both with Elizabeth as a middle name.

I prefer Iris.

I like Beatrice, but the "trix" in Beatrix is a bit dominatrixy.

Iris

Agree with Fixture

I love the name Beatrix, but not with Elizabeth as a middle name. So, if it's got to be Elizabeth, then Iris is better.

(Beatrix is great, as Bee as an abb. is so so so lovely).

Trixie is a very cool nn for Beatrix. I'd choose that one.

Doesn't have to be Elizabeth.

I've heard Beatrix shortened to TrixIe which I can't decide if I like or not I used to think it was sweet not sure if it may sound a bit dare I say porn star. So I get how the trix part could be disliked but I mutiny Beatrix makes me think of Beatrix Potter.

Iris is a name I've always liked and dh hasn't but he has had a change of heart.

'But I like how!' Not sure what happened with the predictive text there

Beatrix is a lovely name. I think it works really well with Elizabeth as a middle name (as long as your surname doesn't begin with a D).

Beatrix is lovely. Stronger than Iris, imo.

I just posted on your other thread! Your girls names are 2 of my favourites too! Plus we would also have Elizabeth as a middle name! So, Iris is my fave of the 2 but that is because I much prefer Beatrice to Beatrix. I completely agree that Trixie sounds like a porn star....sorry to any mums of Trixie's out there!

Beatrix. Iris will always be iris Robinson for me; before she made the news I always considered it a name for a wallflower. So to speak.

Beatrix imo has a lot of feistiness.

Iris.

My GGM was Florence Beatrice and one of her daughters was called Iris Beatrice. Both Iris and Beatrice are lovely. I personally wouldn't go with Beatrix though.

LOVE Beatrix or Beatrice and think Bea or Bebe are gorgeous nns. Beatrix Elizabeth is a bit of a mouthful and doesn't flow, but don't think that's a disaster.

Iris is beautiful and my favourite of the two. Love Beatrice but not Beatrix so much.

I'm a bit torn as I've always wanted Iris during my previous pregnancies and dh was completely against it So I thought of Beatrice/Beatrix and grew to love that two.

Now dh decides he actually stimulidp Iris!

Actually 'quite likes'

Really should switch off my predictive text

Iris.

Elegant for an adult, Risso and Rissy and cute nns for a child!

Think that is true bird.

Also think Iris is probably a bit more timeless

Seriously can't decide, I love both of them but a close friend has a Beatrice and DH doesn't like Iris - but they're both gorgeous and seriously cool names

Although if Beatrix I'd go with Bea not Trixie

I like Iris but not Risso or Rissy, I prefer Beatrix to Beatrice and the NN Trixy is for poodles.

Both lovely names (I have a Beatrice myself) and whilst we preferred that spelling, I think the Beatrix version looks fresh and modern. Trixy is a bit of a marmite nn though.
Iris was on my long list of names but DP wasn't keen.

Iris, definitely. Iris Elizabeth is absolutely lovely.

Mmm I really can't decide either the other day I was set on Iris now I'm going back and fourth again.

Part of the reason I liked Iris is because I didn't imagine it to me shortened?

All my dcs have names that imo can't be shortened which I like. Otherwise it isn't often you hear their real name.

I do have a Daisy though. I don't see a problem with it but some have said I shouldn't have two flower names?

In this area I would say Iris is less come across actually I haven't come cramps one at all yet but have come across a Beatrix a few times. I do like that version but not the nn and part of me think Beatrice is a bit more classic

Iris Elizabeth = Rissy Lizzie