Thoughts on Flossie?

[Cookie122]

I like this name could it be used as it is?

Agree with majority - fine as a nn for Florence but please don't put it on the birth certificate!

Sounds like a goat's name.

Like the shoes?

www.flossyshoes.com

Not as a name, no.

It's a shoe.

It's the Tooth Fairy.
Flora is lovely though.

Excellent choice for a dental floss brand name, not for a little girl, sorry.

no

it's ridiculous

Flossy was the name of DDs goldfish when she was a little girl. I like the name Florence better.

Yes it's fine. You can always put Florence on her BC.

Pet name, sweet. Given name... you wouldn't really, would you?

As others have said it's like dental floss, a sheepdog or possibly a stripper.

Grand as a nickname op, but give her a formal name. Flossie on a cv doesn't make quite the same impression as a Florence/Flora/Frances. It doesn't even have to be one of those, you could call her Sarah and nn Flossie.

i think its cute but doubt i would end up using it... and i dont like florence.

I know a 5 yo Flossie short for Florence. My mum has always called her cars Flossie, it's awful for a child and even worse for an adult.

Aww, my dad and Grandad used to call me Flossie! Bears no resemblance to my actual name so no idea why but this post brought back lovely memories!

I'd use it as a shortened form of Florence or Flora or maybe Frances or Francesca. Probably not by itself though.

Also I always laugh when people say "they'll never be taken seriously as a (insert x profession here)" then list professions where first names are hardly ever used. So you call your Doctor Doctor Angela/Robert? I don't, and don't know anybody who does. And are these people actually suggesting that Flossie Smith could go have exactly the same amount of education, training and experience as Rebecca Smith, but Rebecca would be the better doctor because of her name? Bollocks to that. If a person "can't take someone seriously" because of their name, it's not the second person with the problem.

Flossie was what my mum called female genitals.

"Don't forget to wipe your flossie"

So that is all I can think of.

foxmitten I studyied this in sociology and it is completely true in many longitudinal studies that "non serious" named children were less successful regardless of their education.

I don't think it's right, but it's reality and it may be nice to say "if they judge that's their problem" but it's really not, it's the child's.

Florence is becoming very popular where I am and I know several nicknamed Flossie, Floss, Florrie and Flo.

My late rabbit.

In the North West where I come from it is a sort of generic name for any small girl.

Teachers, lollipop ladies and others will say, "Come on, Flossie, hurry up" to any random dawdler they don't know the name of.

That may well be true, but I reserve the right to think it's ridiculous I think a lot of it is down to social factors though as opposed to purely a name. Not something you can "test" really though. Too many variables.

I also think my example of Flossie and Rebecca still stands. On a population wide level, people with unusual names are less successful, I won't dispute that. But a person who has been to medical school for however many years it is, then trained in a speciality and worked in that speciality for further years, is capable of that job. Whether their name is Flossie or Rebecca doesn't effect their ability to do the job, it affects some people's perception of how well they do the job. And that pisses me off, especially considering it's usually not a person's choice what they are called, it's their parents', so what people are basically saying is "I question this person's ability to do their job based on a decision their parents made when the person was an infant." Rant rant rant...

It's a perfect name if you're giving birth to a barnyard animal.

I don't see why not. I have friends with a Florence, nn Flossie. I think it's sweet if a bit of a name for a Spaniel

It was my cats name. I don't like it at all for a child, it's trying to hard to be different ending up ridiculous, Florence imo is lovely.

No. I do generally go for the shortened version rather than giving a longer name on the birth cert - but in this case, it's a nickname that just isn't a name on its own. We have a Flora who we sometimes affectionately call Flossie or Floss. More often Flo but at the grand old age of three she has started to object to Flo!

Great name... As a nickname