Blossom or Dolly

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I know these names won't be everyone's cup of teas but I have a 3 year old daughter named Heidi Rose and I really love how Dolly sounds with Heidi , 'Heidi and Dolly' but ever since I was a teenager I have had a huge love for the name Blossom.. what do you think?

Agree with others. Dorothy is nice if you really want to use Dolly day-to-day. Dolly as a given name is dreadful. Blossom is inane even for a ewe lamb. Heidi, however, is perfectly lovely... they are not the same kinda names.

Blossom is absolutely lovely. With Dolly really it should be a nickname, Gwedolyn?

Don't do it!

Thanks everyone for your opinions even though some of them could have been better I can understand why certain people will dislike these names. I quite like Thea and Indie and Darla too what do you think about those?

@Fluffiest it's my second child... this comment has honestly made me upset , I obviously love my second child as much as my first, I understand these names are not the 'average' names you hear however there's nothing wrong with being different being a Ella I hated it! throughout all my school life being labelled as 'Ella O' as there where so many Ella's was so annoying! I want my little girl to feel like she's her own little person x

@boopsy I really like Thea too however boyfriend really does not 🤣😩 can't win!! 😂😂

Both are awful OP. Don’t saddle your child with either of these names.

I think some of the responses on here are rather unkind. I grew up with several Daisys, an Amber and a Pearl and now know a few girls called Scarlett / Bluebell / Sorrel. I don't think Blossom is so far out there compared with these (although I do have more conservative tastes).

Dolly is an absolutely brilliant name for a really cool teenager who wears a lot of vintage fake fur and has platinum dyed hair. I am a bit put off it though because it was the nickname that Humbert Humbert used for Lolita.

If your daughter goes on to become a 40 something who runs a Government department, it might be easier to call her Dolores and then shorten it to Dolly.

It might be worth considering whether you would be devastated if your child chose to change their name or call themselves by a middle name. I know several people who have changed their names - they didn't feel that the name their parents gave them represented the people they were as adults. I think there is more of a risk of doing this if you choose a name that is very cute or cool.

@littlemissalwaystired I really like Dorothea as I love love love the name Thea , however does it not remind you of the word diarrhoea a little bit🤣 xx

@BertrandRussell my great great great nan was named Dolly this is a reason I like it so much , she was a 40 year old woman at one point

@Sessy19 thank you so much 😄

@FloatyFlo Dolly Parton is her real name if she can have it why can't my baby girl?

I love both names and both were on my list for my DD. I think nowadays children do have more unusual names. Love Heidi too 👍 was also on my list! W
What about Connie or Honey? (maybe not with Heidi though!)

@WhatAMess123 we must have the same taste in names😂 absolutely love the name honey however I can't warm my boyfriend up to it at all Heidi was going to be a honey until I told him I wanted it and his face dropped🤣 thank you so much! Xx

Going against the grain, I love both! All the people saying you have to name a 40 year old woman forget that by the time today’s babies are 40, there will be a whole host of middle aged women with weird and wonderful names.

@MissDollyMix thank you so much! And there will be , all the 'unusual' names will be the normal names for example like now the normal adult names are things like Chloe , Danielle , Cheryl , Michelle... they will all be 'Dolly' 'blossom' 'thea' xxx

Dolly Parton is her real name if she can have it why can't my baby girl?

Dolly Parton is 72.

My friend's little girl is called Dolly and it really suits her. Neither name for me but it's not my LO.

Such beautiful name so, although if I had to pick I'd go for Dolly (I know a Dolly and she's so lovely, it sways my opinion!)

@OrangesAndLemons10 thank you so much I love the names x

Think Darla is pretty.

Heidi and Doria Blossom.

Both are bloody awful.