April or Flora - help...

[FruitandNutty]

Subject says it all really! Baby won't be born in April. Please help me and DH decide Mumsnetters...

Well a colleague of mine completely put me off the name Flora when I was pregnant by saying it was the worst baby name he could imagine, he went to school with one and the joke was that she was ‘easily spread’

I do really like April, I know a June born in May and it still suits her perfectly, I don’t think the month thing matters too much.

People I know:

April - born in April
May - born in May
June - born in June
Autumn - born in October
Summer - born in July
Tuesday - born on a Tuesday

I think everyone would assume that someone called April was born in April.

Flora's nice though :)

The 'easy spread' gag is enough for it to be a no from me.
Love April.

April!
Or Avril

April not born in April? I wouldn't. Will get called Ape or Apes.
Flora - lovely.

Flora

Flora was on our list. Ended up as DD's middle name. Still love it!

I like April better than Flora, but both are nice!

I don't know why everyone here is always obsessed with month names only being for people born in that month - I wouldn't make that assumption at all. (People might ask, but then people ask all sorts to make conversation...)

Flora, but I admit I'm not a huge fan of either.

I like them both, but I really love Flora.
I don't think you have to be born in April to be called April. The one April I know isn't. I think the Flora "easily spread" jokes have long passed their sell-by dates now - they surely don't use those advertising taglines now.

April.

Flora makes me think of margarine or activia yoghurt ads that mention gut flora!

I prefer April. April is unusual but not strange, it's pretty but not too cutesy and I think it grows well with a person. I would find it a bit odd to call a baby April if they weren't born in April...however the only April I know was born in October, and I didn't think about that at all, nor was it strange.

Flora for me reminds me of a cow, or the spread. It's too cutesy. I couldn't take a flora too seriously...can't imagine Flora in business!

Oh I wasn't expecting it to be so divided! Almost split down the middle... I think I could get past both the margarine element, and also the not being born in April aspects. Purely deciding now which name has a nicer feel to it..

I love Flora, such a beautiful vintage-sounding name.

I wanted June for DD2 DH vetoed it on account of her being born in December, but that wouldn't have put me off at all.

It only seems to be mumsnet that are obsessed with babies with month names being born in that month.. I know several Aprils and an Apryl, none of whom were born in April. I think it's a lovely name.

-completely missing the point of the thread-

I know an Autumn born in January and it has always jarred with me...

I prefer flora personally

I like both equally, but would perhaps give Flora as slight edge as Flo is a better shortening than Ape if it ended up getting shortened at school.

Both lovely !
April.

Love love love Flora.

Hate Flora. Love April. However unless she's going to born in April which going by the date of this thread I highly doubt.
Therefore to make the choice for some one else I'd say go with Flora.

I prefer Flora. It’s gorgeous!

April!

I love Flora. Such a beautiful name :) Nice meaning, fairly international, a bit vintage but currently not too popular and really pretty without being cutesy (imo)...

I personally really dislike April.

Flora