Posy - nice or twee?

[Lady84]

Watched a film today where the baby was called Posy and thought it was lovely. Do you think it's an acceptable name for someone older than age 5 or is it just my crazy hormones?

Thanks!

Adore it. I wanted it for dd2 but dp wouldn't let me.

Love it

Beware the soft spoken S which would change the name into something else.

Another Ballet Shoes fan - 'Her name is Posy. Unfortunate, but true'.

hideous. sorry.

Well there is always Pauline if you want a baby Fossil :) Then she could be Polly for short xx

That was a fictional baby, no? Twee. Use a proper name, Posy as your nick name.

I like it but it's probably better as a NN. I don't see it as more twee than a lot of other popular girls names.

Pixie, lottie, daisy are all similar.

Twee, but a sweet NN fir Josephine, which is one of my favourite names.

Good as a nn for Josephine, but as a full name on its own it is very twee.

I love it too

Posy Twee. Sounds as if we could be related.

Posy Twee is starting to sound like a good name...

It's dreadful as a given name, sorry. What if she grows up to be tall and stocky and sport-mad?

It's OK as a childhood nickname for something else, though.

Would you want to be called Posy? Seriously?

It's bloody awful.

Twee

It's ultra twee. And indecisive, as though someone wanted a flower name but couldn't pick one.

I too think of Posy Flump.

Actually, Squoosh has nailed it. At least Daisy and Poppy are visualisable flowers. Posy just means "small childish bunch".

There's the poetic meaning of posy too but even that's twee and sentimental to boot.

Reminds me of the vaguely similar Bunchy (Joyce Lankester Brisley books), though hers was a nick name, for her real, and very lovely, names were Violet Rosemary May

I love it but I was a huge ballet shoes fan!

Apparently the flump was Posie (with an "ie" not a "y").

I know this because I bought a new car at the weekend and she is definitely called Posie Flump and I spelled it "Posy" to my best friend and was rapidly corrected.

To be 'ultra twee' do I need a wig?

I like it - like others on this thread I think of Noel Streatfield and the ballet shoes books x

Who doesn't like the Ballet Shoes book. I think most are nostalgic about the NS books. Doesn't make Posy a good name, in real life for a grown adult, 70 years hence.

I know a child called Posy-Blossom

JUST NO!