Posie, Isla, Honour or Aurelia??

[Balletmummyxx]

Hi guys needing help to pick the loveliest of these baby names for my DD without having to reveal to friends and family. LOVE Posie, prob my favourite, but afraid it's too cutesy for an adult!? Isla getting quite common? Aurelia, also spelt Oraylia, worried it's a bit of a mouthful and that her name would often be shortened, pretty variations are Orla or Orleia. Help!! Which is your favourite and why? No negative comments please I love all of these choices. Thankyou :) Xx

Posie is gorgeous & I love Honor

I love posy/ posie.

I love Aurelia, closely followed by Honour

Posy is adorable!!!

I love Honor.

I have a soft spot for Posy, but I wouldn't do it.

I'm a bit uncomfortable with bestowing the name Honor on a little girl, given it clearly comes from the honour virtue. To be honourable is clearly a good thing in general-to be truthful, altruistic etc. But when it's used for women/ girls in particular i associate it with a bit of a misogynist undertone i.e 'to defend her honour' would have associations of purity/ chastity. Neither of which are things I think we should be imposing on girls or women, or hoping for our daughters to become above all else.

Fully prepared to be told I'm talking shit. I just have a general sense of unease about it that I'm struggling to even articulate to myself.

I knew an Honor who was the most gorgeous little girl who grew up to be a really strong,confident woman. I don't think of anything but good things when I hear that name.

I absolutely love the name Honor, such a beautiful and strong name.

The others are far too cutesy for my taste, especially Posy.

Honor

Aurelia.

Not keen on the others

Honor is imo the best of four very different mames. Posie is awful, sickly and twee. Aurelia elegant and adult. Orla and Orlaith lovely but nothing to do with Aurelia, not that that matters. Isla very dull.

I like Posy as a nn for Josephine.
The more I’ve seen Honor written on this thread, the more I like it!

Well obviously my fave is Aurelia but that's because we've decided on that for this one. I'm not keen on the other spelling though.
I also love Posie and Isla, although Isla has become very common and has climbed the charts hugely which would put me off personally.

Aurelia is ok. Honour is great. Posie is really really gawd-awful terrible. Please don't do this to a human. It is the pregnancy hormones talking, don't let them win!!

What about Honoria? I think it's an Irish name, meaning honour obviously. I do like Posy but don't think it will age well

Oraylia makes me think of mouth things. And that.

I like all your names OP. I like the actress Parker Posey which is what that makes me think of. Alternate sp. is Poesy too. Depends if you're going for flower bouquet or poetry in the meaning.

I'd probably pick Aurelia because Rey is a lovely nickname.

Aurelia is gorgeous, Isla is nice, Honour is too much to live up to, Posy is awful (sorry). Sounds like a shortening for Poseur. Also my nana had a small dog called Posy and she wasn't a nice dog.

My DD is Aurelia. So I'm biased

Posie is terrible. My mother used to called bogeys posies!!
Isla is by far the best.

What did you decide OP?

Aurelia or Honor

Enjoy your new baby xx

I am a Josephine, who goes by Posy for short, and I'm in my 20's. I would have hated to have Posy as my given name though.

I use Josephine professionally, and Posy personally. I loathe all the J short forms like Jo, Joey, and especially Josie. The only other short form I like is Seph.

As for the other names, I'm bored of Isla, and I prefer the Honor spelling for a name. Aurelia is beautiful.

In order:

Posy (as a nn for Josephine or Primrose)
Aurelia
Honor
Isla

Posie- no
Isla - far too popular
Honour - ok, spelt honor
Aurelia- doesn't sound nice in English accent tbh.
Oreylia- you having a laff?