Poppy?

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Thoughts? ❤️

Love it

Adorable until one gets to 25.

Nope. Reminds of that irritating cat on playdays who used to hang around with peggy and whybird (who were also the worst)

Doesn’t work in an adult. See also Daisy and Honey

Bit too cutesy for me but otherwise nice.

It’s on my list! If I ever have DCs that is! I appreciate what people say about Poppy being a little cutesy for an over 25. However, I think it can still work because for me, it has WW1 links. So poppies aren’t just about cuteness; they’re quintessentially English and have historical significance. She can always use her middle name anyway if it really does become an issue. I say go for it! I will!

I actually think Poppy is a lovely elderly name as well as a lovely baby name, but I am a bit worried about middle age. Although, as you said, there’s always the middle name choice

It’s fine as a name, if dull and uninspiring. I wouldn’t worry about it not not working for an adult. Poppy has been in the top hundred names since 1996. There are thousands and thousands of girls called Poppy. It won’t be anything other than a perfectly ordinary name for her generation.

It’s incredibly popular so I think it will be fine for adults because we will be completely accustomed to middle-age poppys in a few decades.

Like it! However I love the name Maisie and it’s often on here as cutesy and not suitable for an adult, so maybe they are my type of names!

Out of DS's year group of 10 children at primary there were 3 Poppys! They're now 18 so I'm expecting a wave of trainees at work called Poppy shortly.

It’s a beautiful name. It’s not ‘dull and uninspiring’, Maureen is ‘dull and uninspiring’. Poppy is a fun, sweet name and as far as I’m concerned is as lovely as the flower it comes from.

It’s one of my favourite girls names. I think it is lovely.

Poppy is lovely but I don't like 'Pop/pops' as a short version.

Might be cute on a baby, but it’s an embarrassing name for an adult.

Why? It’s been in use for generations.

I have never liked this name

I like Maureen and Poppy. Both fine for an adult. Maureen would be a bit unusual for a baby, but if you'd told me 20 years ago that names like Evelyn, Edith and Mabel would become fashionable, I'd have probably said No way

I see it as a dogs name.

I love it. I would use it if it wasn't for a very close friend being called poppy. She's 30 with a very high paid job, it suits her, doesn't make her sound cutesy at all

I prefer Violet and Iris for flower names

Poppy,Daisy and Rosie are too twee

It is a bit cutesy for my taste but on the other hand Daisy is often remarked upon as being cutesy but it was a very popular name at the turn of the 19th century so around 1950 there will have been lots of middle aged Daisys.

Twee

I know an adult Poppy (who was called it long before it became so popular) and it suits her fine, although it still doesn't really seem like a grown ups name ... But perhaps it will when there are lots more grown women called Poppy.

I've known two dogs and a cat called Poppy so I wouldn't give it to a child, sorry.