Cassia or Willow

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She will be here in a matter of days and we just can’t decide her name!

Our two options are:

Cassia Rose

Willow Hazel

(Cassia is pronounced “Cassy-ah”)

Send help! Thank you!

I think that cinnamon is bark? I’ve been in Sainsbury’s and seen packets of “Cassia” in the world foods aisle that looks exactly like cinnamon. Maybe it’s a special type of cinnamon. I just like the name! We’d probably shorten to Cassie the majority of the time

Hazel is a lovely name.

Yes Cinnamon is tree bark your right.

Sorry You're!

Cassia Willow is really good. Willow is very popular for children, cats, dogs and ponies. Cassia is much more unusual.

Both beautiful names, don’t think you can go wrong with either :)

Willow is a spread, Flora is a nicer name. Cassia is a spice.
Willow Hazel are two trees. Rose is a filler middle name and Cassia Rose sounds like a garden shrub.

Flora is also a spread 🤨

When I was picking names for my LO I also imagined how they would if I was telling off lol. But also how people might shorten them.

Cassia Willow is beautiful and unique.

Love Cassia. I prefer Cassia Rose as I dislike Willow.

Cassia! It's beautiful. It's actually a name for an entire genus of plants, including some really beautiful trees (Cassia Javanica as one example). I like both middle names but as long as you are ok with planty name combinations (and perhaps if your surname isn't oak or similar) it'll be fine.

Haha! No, thankfully no planty associations with our very boring last name.

I think we’ve decided on Cassia Willow 😃. Most people won’t know that Cassia is plant related (thank you @lulalulalula for the insight!) so I doubt she would get banter for it. That would be the dullest banter I ever heard anyway!

This post has been super helpful, thank you everyone! (Except maybe the person who said that Willow is a spread and then suggested Flora 😂)

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@fakeit2makeit , that was deliberate. Any thread about the name Flora gets posters saying it's a spread, but threads on Willow don't.

I think because Willow and Flora are well established as names (and predating the spreads), it’s not really a problem. If we were considering calling her Utterly Butterly I would understand.

A lot of names have other meanings, if we restricted ourselves to those that don’t, I think we’d be pretty stumped (excuse pun I’m obsessed with trees).

Oak-kay

Cassia 💯

Lovely underused name.

Cassia Hazel though, Rose is way overdone as a middle name

Willow is awful IMO - drippy and extra grim if she isn’t willowy

That’s because Willow marg isn’t anywhere near as well know though. Although I think Flora is a nice and well established name so it doesn’t matter.

@fakeit2makeit Cassia Willow is gorgeous, congratulations on your name choice :)
The Willow/Flora spread comments have me laugh (we are now considering Flora, DH’s current favourite). I had never heard of the Willow spread before this forum so I wouldn’t give that a second thought!