Thought I'd settled on Flora,having a wobble...need fresh suggestions!

[UpTheFRIGGinDuff]

Siblings Skye Matilda rose & Arlo Phoenix,double barrelled surname...

Flora seems to 'fit' well but I'm having a wobble and I'd love some suggestions,particularly of not-too-long-names with nn's...I love Winnie for example...

I wouldn't go for Flora. Not only because it's a margarine, it's just not nice-sounding.

Bump...

Katya
Anya
Bess
Manon
Mimi (Miriam?)

I think Flora has a lovely sound and conjours up Botticelli-ish images to me but there's no getting away from the margarine connection so for me it would always be a no.

Love the suggestion of Tabitha (a personal favourite). How about also;
Ursula
Anita
Thea
Camille
Felicity (Fliss)
Esmé
Harriet
Florence (could be nn Florrie, which is close to Flora)
Esther
Sorrell
Tansy

I love Tabitha,but DP isn't keen as a first name.

You're right about Flora conjuring up imagery,I think that's why I can't get over it...If anything is going to beat it,it needs to do a similar thing...

I would put Flora in the same category as:
Clover
Saffron
Scarlett
Willow
Wren
Octavia
Cassia
Lilia
Daisy
Maisy
Darcey
Orla
Una
Iris
Ivy
Heather
Hazel
Thea
Thora
Harriet
Asa
Cora

Yep,most of those were on The List at some point

Maybe Flora really is The One,because nothing else is grabbing me...

I love Flora.

Hello FRIGG

Skye Matilda Rose, Arlo Phoenix and
Flora Juniper.

Lovely!

Cordelia I think you might have done it!

Flora Juniper...feels... right especially seeing it with the other two.

It's a bit perfect really

Ta dah!

It works with the other names :)

Yes yes to Flore juniper, love juniper, I know one aged five.

Its def a name I would use

I have a 15 year old Flora I love her name and so does she. Don't want it getting too popular mind /emo/te/4.gif

Omg I dont know how to do emoticons supposed to be wink.

How about Fern / Ferne ?

It's a pretty name but sisters Skye and Flora would make me think you had a bit of a Jacobean thing going on and that you'd call your son, Charlie!

We have a 12 week old Flora, and its such a fab name, go for it, you wont regret it!

A Jacobean thing?

I've spent days trawling websites and going over my lists and there isn't a single name that I like as much as I like Flora,I therefore conclude,it is,in fact,The One and the only reason I can't adore it is because I haven't got mine I'm my arms yet

6 ish weeks to go!

If you love it , go for it! It's a perfectly lovely name!

It was just the whole Skye Boat Song thing. It was Flora macdonald who dressed Bonnie Prince Charlie up as a woman and helped him escape across the water to the Isle of Skye after his failed attempt to take the throne.
DH and I both thought it but then he's Scottish and I'm a history teacher so most people probably wouldn't see the connection.

So there's lots of stuff on the Isle of Skye about Flora!

If you like bonnie how about bessie/bess? Usually short for Elizabeth

Flora is the best.