Flora as a shortening of Florence

[MonkeyToucher]

We really like the name Flora for dd, but I’m now considering whether it would be better to have Florence on the birth certificate to give her the option in future of having something a bit more “grown up” to use? As a child we would literally always refer to her as Flora, Florence would just be on official documents.

Am I mental? Is this necessary? Does Flora work as a stand alone name?

Flora Elizabeth is lovely

I don't like Flora Elizabeth. I like them separately but not together. As somebody whose first name ends in a vowel and second name starts with a vowel, I am forever having to take a pause between the two names to show it's not just one big long name. I don't think names are pronounced well when it's two vowels ending and beginning.

I have a Florence and shorten to Flora. I like her to have choice but love Flora on its own too.

Also love Elizabeth, nn Betsy. Congrats!

Ummmm Flora and Florence both have the “o” sound where I’m from...
I know a Florence who uses Flowie as a nn.
My moms a Florence no nn, full name.

Flora is fine on its own. It's not short for Florence and is a much older name than Florence as well. I like Flora Elizabeth.

I like Flora Elizabeth. And think that Flora is a “grown up” sounding name anyway!

I adore Flora. So much nicer than Florence.

I’d shorten Florence to Flo rather than Flora. Both nice names but Flora is fine as a full name.

I think Flora is much nicer than Florence.

Flora and Florence are two distinct and different names. Choose one or the other.

@TokenGinger...imagine all that time you have wasted pausing...forever?! 😂😂😂

We were going to call our DD Flora Elizabeth! Love it. We went with a different first name but kept the middle one.

I prefer Florence to Flora