Which baby name!

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I had a baby girl a few weeks ago and we have called her poppy as we love all of the nicknames pops popsy etc. and it goes well with our other children names. However I have always ADORED olive. Should I change it?! I think I could convince my husband…

I know several Poppys from uni. One is an extremely successful psychiatrist. One is high up in the foreign office. One is high up in the oil industry. People saying that Poppy is just a name for toddlers and children are talking nonsense really. It's been in the top 100 names for about two decades now. Olive is a much more 'Marmite' name and there is a real chance that they will grow up to hate it.

Poppy is way better! Olive is boring sounding. Plus olives are disgusting lol

I’m not saying you can’t be professionally successful and be called poppy 🙄.

I just personally find ditsy names on women with gravitas cringe. Remember a senior expert on the news 50 something in a serious job being introduced as “Daisy Duke” or similar and remember thinking how daft it seemed. A name is for life not a toddler. Op did ask.

Poppy is a little cutesy and twee sounding. Like Poppet.

I’m not keen on either, Poppy being too twee, Olive too harsh, but if pressed I’d go with Olive.

'Olive 🫒 is oily and an ugly sounding name.' This.
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I know an adult Poppy, and other than it being unusual in her age group, it's fine.

We have MPs with names like Daisy and Rosie.

When OP's baby will be an adult, there will be people in responsible senior roles with names like Evie, Ellie, Alfie, Archie, Teddy, Poppy etc.

I think both Poppy and Olive are a bit too "flora and fauna" so I wouldn't try to solve this dilemma by putting them together. It sounds like Primrose Willow for example. Just too much like a nature encylopedia or a Brambly Hedge mouse character.

Personally I prefer Poppy by a smidge.

I tend to think they work better as a nickname for something a bit more grown up. So Poppy for Penelope etc.

Olive is a perfectly sensible, respectable name op, but in truth, I don't think "Ol-iV" is actually a very nice sound. I'd stick with Poppy.

Both are nice names.
Do you prefer Green or Red?
Poppy Olive is a good choice

You could join them up and call her ..
Polive - Polly
Olippy - Olly
Polip - Lippy
Oppively - Oppy
Lopilve - Loppy - Ilvie
Eviloppy - Evi or Evil

Poppy Olive sounds like a Focaccia’s topping of poppy seeds and olives!

Oh its a great life “on the buses” …..

Olive on the buses, and Olive oil in the Popeye cartoon. Not a name I would care to use, but it's your choice.

Poppy is lovely!