Thoughts on name daffodil

[Sarahgrace123]

Ever since I was a little girl my favorite flowers were daffodils and I really like creative names so I was thinking the name daffodil for my new daughter. What are your honest thoughts? Is it to “out there”? Because daffie would be a really cute nickname but my sister and dad don’t like it that much. Opinions???

Cain=vain

NATALIA OSIPOVA!! I need a Russian ballerina to talk nonsense with me! If you had to be called a daffodil name, would it be Jonquil, Daffodil or Narcissus. Jonquil, right? RIGHT?

(Who wants I've probably had enough.)

My name is Clare. You couldn't come up with anything more dull and boring if you tried.

I have a similarly boring name. But if we are asked for our name, you can guarantee that nobody sniggers. Or asks how to spell it. There's something nice about that, I think.

What about dilys? It's welsh and sounds like it could be a shortening of daffodil ( kind of)

What's making you think of daffodil? Why are you asking?
I personally think it's an ugly name

I try so hard to not post when the name is that rid8culous but I feel moved to post in this instance. It's ridiculous. Use it as a middle name by all means but as a first name it has no good nicknames and your dc can't redeem herself in anyway. Please override the hormones and rethink!!!

Better than her being the 20th Olivia or Amelia in her school I say.

This 💯. Mumsnetters tend to be quite pedestrian in their name choices. Anything remotely unusual and you will be met with claims that the child will be bullied or not taken seriously later in life. This is rubbish.

OP, daffodil is a lovely name 🌼. And Daffie is also a cute abbreviation. The younger generation probably don’t even know who Daffy Duck is.

Tulip is a name and much better IMO.

Please don't do that to a child.

Utterly ridiculous.

Can you imagine the embarrassment of having to introduce yourself to strangers as Daffodil!

Don't. Just don't.

By the way, I think it was Narcissa in the Harry Potter series, not Narcissus. Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco Margot and wife of Lucius.

Somerville. Definitely Jonquil out of those three. I quite agree....

But I think if I could have any flowery name, I'd go for Rhododendron. Or Magnolia.

I have a similarly boring name. But if we are asked for our name, you can guarantee that nobody sniggers. Or asks how to spell it. There's something nice about that, I think

I think you need to ask how people spell their names anyway. Doesn’t matter how boring the name may be- Clare can be Claire, or Clair, and nowadays with spelling gettin “kreeativ” god knows what people come up with.

I have a boring 80’s name along the lines of clare, sarah, rebecca. I am still asked how to spell it.

Rhododendron. Or Magnolia.

I like Gladiolus. And Chyrsthemum too tipsy to spell it.

I also laughed at the suggestion of narcissus being better!

No, it’s a rabbit’s name!

I love it!

Somerville. More tonic, darling. More tonic.

Celebrating or commiserating ce soir? Hopefully the former?

Imagine this....

"Do you John Smith... take thee.... DAFFODIL.. to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

Or

Or being introduced to her colleagues on her first day of her first job "guys I'd like you to meet our newest member of the team, DAFFODIL"

Just don't do it.

But daffy means silly/mildly eccentric. It'd be like calling her Dippy.

It'd be like calling her Dippy.

She could be Diplodocus on formal occasions....?

I like it.

I think sometimes people forget that they are naming a human being for life, rather than a pre-schooler for 4 years.

FWIW, I feel much the same way about Poppy. Great for pets, less so for humans.

She'd be called Daffy Duck. Not great.

For your child's sake; hell no.

Diplodocus would be the twin brother.
Daffy and Dippy - cute!

Or they could be my favoured Narcissus, and Nasturtium.

I'd say more commiserating than celebrating...
Older kids with GPs, baby (mostly) asleep, high-jinks planned for the evening with DH... and he's delayed.
So I ordered Deliveroo and got the gin out.