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Poppy or Daisy?

71 replies

N3WBi3 · 05/05/2019 18:31

Which do you prefer? Love floral names but these two are my favourite

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Sparklysunflower · 05/05/2019 20:45

Both very twee and cutesy. I particularly dislike Poppy. It also doesn't travel well!

Happyandglorious · 05/05/2019 20:57

Poppy

BarnamintBaileys · 05/05/2019 20:59

Daisy

Calixtine · 05/05/2019 21:06

Daisy! A bit quirkier feeling than Poppy.

Shadow1234 · 05/05/2019 21:47

Poppy

Bumblebeesmum · 05/05/2019 22:26

Daisy

Ivy is my favourite of this type though

Hotterthanahotthing · 05/05/2019 22:41

Cute for babies but an adult may not thank you for lumbering with either.

aibutohavethisusername · 05/05/2019 23:04

Daisy

mothertobe789 · 05/05/2019 23:06

Daisy. My DD is 3 months old and this was very nearly her name.

GreenTulips · 05/05/2019 23:09

Every other child is named Daisy - will be the Sharon and Tracy of this generation

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 05/05/2019 23:10

Both nice.
I also like Flora & Rose.

honeyman · 05/05/2019 23:22

Neither. Fine as a small child. Think of your child as an adult in a meeting.. "Daisy/Poppy will now take us through the financials.." I see a 3 year old every single time..

Cinderella812 · 05/05/2019 23:44

Either, if you are naming a spaniel! ;)

It doesn't matter one bit what I or anybody else thinks. If you and your husband like it, and your daughter does when she grows up, it was the perfect choice!

MercyBodle · 06/05/2019 05:33

I like both but prefer Daisy.

JenniferJareau · 06/05/2019 05:34

Daisy

LaMarschallin · 06/05/2019 05:58

Oh! Has to be Daisy!
I honestly used to pretend this was my name when I was 14/15 because I loved it so much.
I would have adored to call one of my daughters this but didn't because my ex-verynonD-H would have sprained something quite badly laughing at the very idea.

Hmmm. Post preview I note that we can't use italics, underlining and bold simultaneously. Shame. I wanted to emphasise that so much!

I'm also now thinking that it would have been quite funny if ex-vnD-H had sprained something. Rats! Wasted opportunity.

Humph. I'd have loved loved loved to have emphasised that " had " more.

Any road up, OP, call her what you want. She'll be gorgeous anyway with a mama with such nice taste in names.
Floral-y speaking, I like Lily too although she may end up surrounded by other little Lily-buds because of the Harry Potter series.

yoursworried · 06/05/2019 06:06

Cute for babies but an adult may not thank you for lumbering with either

Both awful sorry

I find it really odd when people say this kind of thing. There will be so many adults with these kind of names in 10-20 years that it is going to be perfectly fine to be called Daisy or Poppy and there will be any number of them in professional jobs. I know young adults now with both these names who don't seem to be unhappy that they are called this.

Also if a poster says do you prefer X or Y it is quite mean spirited to come on to a thread deliberately to say that you don't like either of them. Just don't say anything.

Aveeno2017 · 06/05/2019 06:06

Not a lover of either of them...loads of poppys and daisys in my daughter's school.

lljkk · 06/05/2019 06:12

Both make me wince for grown women.
I know people make names their own & I will get used to it. Am not there yet, though.

In the world are so many magnificent dynamic glorious pretty dignified awesome names. These aren't in that group.

tdam · 06/05/2019 06:20

@yoursworried I agree.

I like both but I would probably be more inclined to use Daisy. I'm actually reading a great book at the moment called Daisy Jones and the Six and it's made me like it even more!

toucantoo · 06/05/2019 06:23

Neither. Far too common.

LaMarschallin · 06/05/2019 06:36

I'm actually reading a great book at the moment called Daisy Jones and the Six

Sounds good!

And, of course, there's this:

Daisy Pulls It Off g.co/kgs/cmUhSq

Loved it!

Sparklysunflower · 06/05/2019 07:27

There are so many elegant and beautiful names to choose from. Poppy and Daisy wouldn't be ones that I would choose, sorry.

LaMarschallin · 06/05/2019 07:35

In the world are so many magnificent dynamic glorious pretty dignified awesome names. These aren't in that group.

Coo.

The first name I thought of on reading that was Boudicca. And that scared me a bit.
There wasn't a second.
What are some of the (abbreviating) m d g p d a names you thought of?

PinkFluffyFairy · 06/05/2019 08:00

Daisy Glitterball

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