Botanical girls names - please vote!

[sunshineandmango]

Hello all

DH and I have finally narrowed down our list to our two favourite names, which we both love. We’ve considered lots of names but botanical names do hold a personal significance for us so we’ve decided this is the way to go!

Lily
Flora

Which is your favourite and why? And how popular is Lily in your experience? It’s in the top 10 but I personally don’t know any!

Thank you 💐

Just my experience…

I prefer Flora, beautiful name, but would never use it myself because the margarine association is too strong for me.
Lily is lovely, but so over-used.

I like Ivy, Iris, Violet, Rose, Jasmine, Fern, Elowen, Dahlia, Florence as botanical names.

I have a 20 year old dd and Lily was popular was she was a baby.

These days I only hear it as a double barrelled name like Lily-Rose, Lilli-Mae , Lilly-Jade etc with lots of spelling variations on Lily.

I would pick Flora because it's much more unusual but still classy. Never heard the margarine references in real life.

Thanks all. Both beautiful names, but think we are leaning towards Flora. Thanks everyone for the input :)

I know loads of young girls called Lily. Flora is ace!

I love Flora. I know so so so so so many little Lilys with various spellings (this makes it even more popular than it looks on the charts, as different spellings are listed separately).

I love Fern.

Personally neither, I prefer daisy

Flora is beautiful