Is Daisy only nickname for Margaret?

[wildpoppy]

Or could it be nickname for anything else?

I was going to say that Peggy's also a nickname, but you meant Daisy being linked to something else, not another name for Margaret.

I'm not aware of Daisy being anything other than a name in its own right, and had to look it up on the internet to see that it was a nickname for Margaret. It's because the french name for Oxeye Daisy, Marguerite, is also the French version of Margaret.

Would Marguerite be better than Margaret? Why can't you have Daisy as a name in its own right?

Yes sorry Babylon, bad phrasing. What else could be full name with nn Daisy? Like Daisy but bit convinced it is a full name.

I would never have thought Daisy was a nickname for anything.
I learn something new every day on MN it seems.

Not, not bit.

I don't think it fulfills the plumber or prime minister test - is a bit girly for a serious job.

My son's neurologist's first name is Kindra. I think it's a bit childish sounding, not a 'serious' name, but it didn't stop her becoming a neurologist. There's another professional (albeit in the entertainment industry on the production side) my DH has come across through work, named Pixie. She's one of the higher-ups, so really I don't see any name, unless it's utterly ridiculous, stopping somebody becoming whatever they want to be. So I am in the camp of Daisy standing alone just fine. :)

I don't think you need to use the name Maragret if you want to call your dd Daisy, call her Daisy :)

Margot?

if you can have rose; poppy, iris. why not daisy?

My great-aunt was named Jessie, but she mis-pronounced it as a small child and was known as Daisy all her life. Another family member was named Daisy after her.

I've never thought of it as a a girly, or not serious, name because I grew up knowing a sensible, elderly one.

Daisy does derive from Margaret - i remember reading it in the classic novel Little Women and good wives. Nowadays little girls can be christened Daisy so don't worry too much.

If I wanted my dd to be called Daisy, then I think I'd have to call her Daisy. I mean, it's not (or wasn't!) a name I'd choose, but these days it does stand as a name on it's own and I think it wouild cause confusion if she was Margaret on official paperwork, but everyone called her Daisy.... it's not like 'Maggie' or something that is obviously likely to be a nn for a Margaret.

How on earth would your first affect what job you do?

...first name...it's late!

Peggy, meg and maggie nn for Margaret

Is daisy a nn?