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

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We like both, not a wind up honestly!

"Clover ...was a fair sweet dumpling of a girl with thick pig-tails of light brown hair and short-sighted blue eyes which seemed to hold tears just ready to fall from under the blue. Really Clover was the jolliest little thing in the world; but these eyes and her soft cooing voice always made people feel like petting her and taking her part... Clover was sunny and sweet-tempered a little indolent and very modest about herself though in fact she was particularly clever in all sorts of games and extremely droll and funny in a quiet way. Everybody loved her and she loved everybody especially Katy whom she looked up to as one of the wisest people in the world."

Clover is hippier, Flora is posher/more old school

Flora is nice but I know a fair few now.
Clover is very pretty and relatively unusual I think.

PS I love Sorrel.

Which be is the butter one? They're both butter; why would you want to name your child after a lump of lard?

I had a good friend at school called Flora and I don't remember much margarine based teasing, but she did have a v cool big sister (Polly) so had protection by association with big, cool kids.

I prefer Flora (probably by association with big, cool kids).

I know a girl called Flora and she absolutley hated her name, everyone called her Flossie but they are both butter (well margerine). Imo Clover is much nicer. Don't like Flora much at all.

I have a Clover and I think it is a lovely name (obviously!) (Oh, and I'm a Katy, so you can see what books are popular in my family...)

Only butter is butter.

How about Kerrygold?

That aside, my first thoughts on hearing Clover are the flower, not the spread. Not so with Flora.

"These are my girls, Flora and Clover, and their brothers Lard and Cookeen"

Clover, I love it, love What Katy Did. It's a gorgeous name.

I like Flora too, and if I met a girl by either name I wouldn't think of butter.

I used to know a horrible bitch colleague who'd named her twin girls Daisy and Clover!!! I am not kidding. The mistake couldn't have been made by a nicer woman though...!

Neither.

Clover is indeed a cow's name.

I had one as a child

I did so love her.

Her daughter was Clover 2

My daughter is called Flora, people got used to it. We get many compliments about it in the street (although occasionally gets confused for Laura and once, Gloria...) It is a beautiful name and we can't imagine our baby as anything else. As well as it being a well known margarine brand, Flora was also the Greek goddess of flowers and springtime and Flora McDonald was a Scottish heroine (I think...).

Not keen on Clover though, I knew a Clover and she was a bit of a dumbass who kept changing her name to Chloe.

This thread has brought back mentors of raucous singing of "Roll Me Over In The Clover" by the school rugby players in the back of a bus!

I was avoiding mentioning that one.