Juniper or Josephine?

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Juniper is my preference, Josephine is DH's

They are both lovely names, I think I would go for Josephine if it was me though.

Have you considered which nn each would have? June/Junie is awful imo. Jo /Josie are fine.

Much prefer Juniper. Josephine sounds very dated to me.

Josephine. It's lovely in a soft, old-fashioned, romantic way. And Josie is an easy nickname.
Don't like Juniper at all. It just doesn't feel like a name to me.

I love Juniper

I prefer Josephine. Juniper seems almost painfully trendy to me, whereas Josephine is more classic.

I like Josie but not Josephine and Juniper is a bit of a mouthful but it’s nicer

I adore juniper, if I have a girl I'd call them juniper, its gorgeous!

Josephine.

I also prefer the potential shortenings with Josephine.

Not just Jo / Josie, but Fee and Effie too.

Josephine, definitely. Classic, lots of potential shortenings. I think Juniper is awful, honestly. Really try hard.

You could go with Juno as a nn rather than
June. I've never heard Juniper as a name but if you like it then go for it. I'm not made on Josephine (nor Josie as a nn).

Both...I slightly prefer Juniper as a name but the nn for Josephine..so would probably go for Josephine as most people shorten...

Although I know a fair few 3 syllable named children that always have the full name no nn

Juniper in my head is cooler/slightly more quirky..
Josephine more elegant/wafty/classic so as a a klutzy nerdy clumsy chunky family probably would go for Juniper as no child likely to ever waft.. :)

Not Juniper, unless you want her called Ju, JuJu, Juny.

How about Jennifer Juniper, like the Donovan song?

I like them both, but I prefer Josephine, as I have a 2 year old Josephine! She calls herself Jos, but she's mostly known as Josephine. We called her Posy when she was a baby but we switched back to Josephine as we wanted her to know what her name really was! It's a great name that I think works for all ages, but I am a little biased.

I don't like Josephine at all so Juniper.

Love both but Juniper might date as suddenly goy very trendy, whereas Josephine is more classic.

Love nicknames:
June, Juno, Junie for Juniper, and
Josie and Sephie for Josephine

Oohh and Posy 😍

I really like Juniper, it feels like such a young, fresh feeling nature name. I like the shortenings of Juno or Juni too. Maybe combine it with a more traditional middle name to balance it, not Josephine though as that would be a bit of a mouthful.

I like Juniper a lot, although the 'nipper' sound in it is slightly off-putting. Josephine is very dated and I'm not keen.

Josephine, beautiful name. It's my mothers name. If I had another girl I would use it. As others say I don't dislike Juniper I just don't like any of the nn

Oooh I like Juniper. Wouldn't have thought of it. I guess it might get shortened to June so as long as you're ok with that, I'd say go for it!

Josephine, definitely. I don't like the 'nip' in Juniper, and wouldn't like Nippy or Nipple to evolve as a nickname.

Josephine is lovely

Josephine is beautiful - very classic but underused with so many nn choices for her to chose if she wants (I like Effie or Sephie myself but there's Jo, Joey, Josie, Posy, Gigi...)

Juniper is pretty but quite hippy sounding - I think a child would need to be fairly confident to pull off an unusual name like Juniper (and although the Juno nn is nice, Juniper doesn't have many nn choices) .