Ivy or Iris?!?!

[ziggymarl]

I'm stuck. I love them both for a girl. Just a bit of fun really but would love to hear what other Mumsnetters think!?

Iris is pretty.

I think Iris is pretty, like the flower, while Ivy is an old lady's name.

Love Ivy - fab name. Not keen on Iris. Reminds me of Isis.

I prefer Iris it has a lovely vintagy feel and I've not met one yet.

I do like Ivy but it seems a bit more 'current' and faddy plus I know a few

Ivy Tildsley. Which probably won't mean anything to a lot of you but she was the poisonous MIL of Gail many years ago and for that reason alone has always put me off the name.

My niece is Iris and my cousins dd is ivy. Both beautiful names x

Iris

Iris by far. Lovely name, lovely flower. No-one really loves Ivy and I don’t like the poison link.

Iris. For sure.

I don't like Iris - as someone else mentioned it feels too recent to be classic, and is more a contemporary of Maureen, Mavis and Pam in their 60s and 70s than a name coming back around having last popular a century ago.

I prefer Iris

Hate them both! Sorry can't please everyone

I like them both. I prefer Iris as I like that it means rainbow.

Iris isn't a recent arrival at all!

Ivy. I'm biased as it was my Nana's name, but I do think it's lovely.

Iris. Ivy is stratospherically popular, top 50 and climbing. Iris is also on the way up but not in Ivy's league.

Ivy.

Love both, but I’ve loved Ivy forever.

I had an Ivy and it suits her to a tee. She seems to be an old lady in a kids body hehe.... Iris is beautiful too.

Iris - by miles

Foot I don't mean recently invented, I mean it's been in common use too recently. There are lots of Irises in their 60s, whereas Ivy hasn't been as popular as Iris was in the 1950s since the late 19th century.