Flora or Clover, which name is the butter one?!

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We like both, not a wind up honestly!

Love Flora. Clover to me = butter

Go for Flora. Clover is the name of a cow.

Well both spread easily (and for that reason can be hard to live with in the teen years). I would go for Clover, as it's the newer brand so at least anyone who makes a pervy remark will be a similar age, not one of her friends' Dads.

Flora was a lovely, traditional Scottish name long before it was associated with a margarine.

Sorry, I think of Clover as a cow's name.

Clover -it's 27% buttermilk, while Flora is mostly Plant sterols with only a tiny bit of buttermilk.

Clover is a much nicer baby name too.

Clover is a hundred times nicer than Flora.

As a name I mean! Not as a spread!

Clover is the name of a cow. Mooooooooooooooooooooo.

Both are fridge items that spread easily on bread/toast.

Flora is pretty but does allow for some teasing/jokes.

I didn't think of Clover when naming DD, but if I had I might well have gone for it (though DH might have taken a bit more persuading). I loved it when I was a child reading the Katy books.

Floras may end up nicknamed Clover anyway not speaking from bitter experience at all

lots of margarine jokes as a child followed by 'spreads well' as a teen.

They're both utterly butterly but I prefer Flora

They are both well known spreads, I think you'd be mad to choose them! But Flora is at least a human name, not a bovine one.

What about Olivio, Stork, Utterly, Benecol as alternatives?

Both make me think of rabbits. Sorry

Flora was my late mother's name and I think it's beautiful.
I wanted to call dd after her but dh vetoed it.

So I say Flora - Clover is a cow's name. x

Or Marmite, Jam, Peanut Butter, Nutella...

You're mad. Your daughter will endure a childhood of teasing. Don't be surprised if you end up in a horrible care home.

Just call her Marg.

Clover.

Children will make nicknames/tease about anything. If not the name, then appearance etc

Both

They're both lovely. I think Flora has the edge over Clover, though.

I wouldn't worry about the "margarine" associations. Whichever name you choose will become "your daughter", and quite frankly there are a million and one other things that children will use as potential teasing-material. My son has long hair and wears DMs to school and gets called "Punk Rock Boy" (as if that's even an insult )

There are loads of pretty flower and nature inspired names, personally I'd look again.

I loved Clover from the What Katy Did books, but Flora has the advantage of being more of an established proper name, and could be shortened to Flo, Florrie or Flossie.

My mum hated being called, Flo, Florrie and especially Floss.

Whoever it was there flippantly taking the piss by suggesting Marmite and Nutella and so on...it is easy to see where kids sometimes get their ideas from isn't it?

I love Clover from What Katy Did as well, I know a little Elsie and I was thinking of Clover when wondering what other Carr names might be nice to use (what was Dorry short for anyway, Theodore?). I would always think "Clover Carr" and had never even considered the buttery spread!

Flora does make me think butter when by itself but not when it is a child; for what its worth I have met a few little Floras but no Clovers.

Benecol for a boy?

I prefer Clover. Though, I do think Meadow is nice, and it's kind of similar

What about Sorrel?

I liked that for dd but again dh said no. I still like it.