Posie or Ophelia!?

[Balletmummyxx]

Baby has been born and we still haven’t chosen which of these two!! Love both. Please help us decide!

Ophelia is a lovely name but it lends too well itself to innuendo.

I just had a baby girl, we called her Poppy Rose. Posie is her nn at the moment!

Be careful of "I feel ya" with Ophelia

Posie makes me think of Kylie Jenner, it's what one of her lipsticks is called and what everyone thought her baby was called at first

Congraulations. I'd go with Posie but only because I dislike Ophelia (it seems ott). Posie is too cutesy from my tastes but i do prefer it to Ophelia

I like Posy a lot.

I like Ophelia as well but I've met three little Ophelias in as many years! Also her story is sad.

Posie is woeful. Ophelia had severe MH issues and died tragically but at least there is something adult about the name.

I'd choose Ophelia of those too.

Just can't take posie seriously. If you must, call her Josephine with posie as a nickname.

Goodness they're two very different names. Your surname isn't Bottome or Balls is it?

Ophelia by a mile, Posie is very twee and cutesy. Congratulations!

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Ophelia instantly makes me think of this. Rather miserable connotations, I think. Wasn't Posy in Ballet Shoes? I think that sounds pretty, but I don't know why it goes with Josephine as PPs have suggested.

I don't think I could go for either name tbh. I'd feel like an idiot yelling 'POSIE' and 'OPHELIA' across a park. Is there a third option?

Ophelia definitely

Not a huge fan of either, but Ophelia would get my vote.

I have a Posy. I LOVE her name. Congratulations on your DD

Ophelia

I prefer Posy but I’d spell it with a y.

Yes Posy was in Ballat Shoes and I love the name

Ophelia

Gorgeous name

Also why are people saying call her Josephine with the nickname Posy? If you are going to call her Posy why not ..um.. name her Posy?

Posy is just too sickly.

Ophelia is better.

Posy (as in a posy of flowers) is a lovely name. Posie is nonsense, as are Poppie and Hollie. Don't use a perfectly good name and then add an -ie ending 'to make it different '. The poor child will spend their life correcting people or, worse, having to tolerate the constant misspelling of their name.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham A friend of mine just had a Lillie.

I thought wtf.

Already on facebook constant corrections of people spelling it Lily.

Wtf is Lillie?

Posy is lovely but I would have it as a nickname for something else. Ophelia is nice but a bit eccentric!

It seems silly to go for Lillie when everyone will assume Lily, but then Lillie Langtry is possibly the most famous Lily/Lillie there has been and she got the royal seal of approval