Iris

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Opinions on iris please! Can’t decide what I think about it...

I love it personally!

Love it.

It's sweet. It is quite popular round here, but I like it.

Don't like it. Don't like the sounds but maybe that's just my accent. Needs a clear I at the start. Don't like ss'y names like Clarissa either.

I love it! I know my mother hates it a bit sure if that’s a generational thing

Not keen. The 'ris' bit always sounds a bit hard on the ears to me. Prefer Ivy or Isla.

Its lovely. I know three under five

Beautiful name!

Beautiful. The name of my former Headmistress, who was a great lady.

Just don't use as a middle name with a first name that could be an eye colour, e.g. Hazel. Hazel Iris just sounds silly. It literally means hazel-coloured eye.

For me personally I wouldn't use it because the eye association is much stronger in my head than the flower/colour association. No objection to it for others though.

Lovely name

I love it, but it is a family name in my family - I have an aunt Iris and a great aunt Iris

Love it!

It's a lovely name, my Grandma was an Iris and she was a beautiful soul.

My grandma was an Iris too, lovely name

If you loved it you’d know

I really love this name. It is top of my list actually (for when I hopefully soon have a use for it!).

Where I live it would be pronounced Eerees, though, and I prefer that to some of our British accents that tend towards pronouncing it Oirus.

I also don't like the English pronunciation Eye ris, but much prefer Eer-is (as it's pronounced in Germany for example).

I like it, I have a friend with a little Iris and she calls her Irie for short

I don’t really like it but it’s a perfectly decent name - I don’t have any particular reason

Reminds me of iris in the eye....or a old lady

It's lovely

It's one of the few 'granny chic' names that I like.

It was on my list for DC2.

Love it.