Clara or Poppy?

[NamelessNinja]

Down to our final two names on the shortlist and desperate to give this girl a name! Any thoughts or opinions to help?

The first time I met someone called Poppy she was an adult, so I don't particularly think of it as a childish name.

Clara

Clara

I love the name Poppy, I have a teenage Poppy and it really suits her, she is often complimented on her name.

Clara

Clara! Dd might have been Clara if surname didn’t begin with C lol

Poppy doesn't travel well either - it sounds like an American grandad - Popps or Poppy

Poppy is awful. Better suited to a dog or pet budgie.
Clara is OK.
Both a bit twee.

Poppy is much nicer than Clara

Clara for me.

Clara, it suits a child/adult/elderly in all walks of life. Poppy to me sounds like a hippy aunty that could be because I’m a 60’s child 😂

but Clara is so pretty

@NamelessNinja

Will you pronounce it Clar-a (first syllable to rhyme with far)
Or
Clar-a (first syllable to rhyme with where)

Clara. I like Poppy too but Clara is one of my favourite names.

Clara. Much more elegant. Also works internationally so if child ever would want to move abroad it would work much better than Poppy. Don't like Poppy at all personally, it's fine for a dog/cat or a 2 year old but not a grown woman with a career.

Another Clara vote. I also agree that Poppy doesn't age well and is very much a baby/little girl name.

I always imagined my children introducing themselves at a job interview when choosing their names 🤣

Clara.

(And I do hope the pp reminded of it knows that the Nutcracker ballet pre-dates the Barbie version by over a century! I don't think Clara from the Nutcracker is a bad association.)

Clara is gorgeous, really dislike Poppy

Of course but I hear the name Clara and I can hear the voice of the Barbie character and how soft and girlie and young it sounds.

I suppose it's similar for people and hearing the name Danny and thinking of Danny Zuko/John Travolta in Grease.

Hence why names preferences are so personal!

Clara

Fair enough! That makes sense now.

You're right, it's all individual.

I'm old and Clara to me is elegant and classy. My mother used to say, can you see a person with that name as Prime Minister (as in, don't narrow their horizons from the start) but then she didn't live to see Boris in power.

Clara to me sounds uptight and and a bit dull. I like Poppy - it is 'sweet' but its pretty and my favourite of the two.

I think you know my answer!

The latter! Like Claire- a.