Daisy - Too twee?

[Eleta]

We have pretty much decided on Lucy Alice but Daisy was another name on our list and yesterday w met a lovely girl called Daisy and it made us think again.

Is it too cute and little girlish?
A) I doubt my daughter will make Prime Minister anyway ( but who knows)
B) I'm not sure a name would stop someone becoming something if they had drive, intelligence, opportunity etc

mmm, what do you think?

Try not to think about her as a cute little girl, but as Chief Executive of a blue chip company/ Speaker of the House of Commons/ News Anchor on the World at Ten.

Then consider whether the name is quite right!

why not call her margaret and then daisy for short, then she can decide when she grows up? We have "posh" given names for both our girls, shortened to more jolly things, then they can decide!

Too twee. Think carefully before using cutie-pie names. I know someone formally called Posy Willow, and she changed it, as she couldn't face having people giggle all the time, and she felt it would hold her back professionally. Yes, I KNOW other shouldn't react like that, but in RL they do, so why make things harder than they have to be?

I find it dated and downmarket. I have met so many Daisy-Mai and Daisy-Leighs recently. Alice or Lucy are much more timeless and classy.

I know a grown up Daisy who is not the least twee, but very competent at building, plastering, wall building, & much else. Doesn't appear to have held her back.
Fifty years ago try imagining a news anchor called Kate, a PM called Margaret, a Northern Ireland sec called Mo

I find the best test is: would I be embarassed to have the name? And yes, I probably would be to be called Daisy.

Very pretty name for a little girl, but not so sure about when little girl grows up!

Name for a cow in my book

Well U have a Daisy and a Poppy and I have to disagree with you who say it is too twee.

Yes my girls are still quite little - Daisy is 7 , Poppy 9, but my Daisy not not Twee. She is the brightest spark, the most intelligent ever child

Seriously Daisy is cool, I am a Lucy and TBH there are loads of Daisys around you won't need to worry.

BTW Others copied ME, I decided these names 11 years ago before DH and I had kids we decided if we ever had girls they would be their names, it is only since then have have become trendy!!

Sometimes I wish I had goe with Hermione and Imogen (wanted shakespearan names)

By the time our children are adults these names will all seem like very normal names for an adult. No one will think twice in 15-20 years time to come across grown up Poppy, Daisy, Evie, etc.

Just like for us names like Tracy, Denise, Kevin, etc. seem really odd for babies now but normal adult names, but when they were little, people probably wondered the same.

I love Daisy and Poppy. I think that Poppy is too baby ish to ever use it but not so with Daisy.

I prefer Rosie though (but she is my cat!)

Love it! I also love the name Lucy.

Daisy is sweet - but so important to think beyond the cute little girl years, so I'd rule it out. Personally I apply the 'foreign secretary test' - how would this name sound if she were to become foreign secretary. And I just can't see a Daisy as a respected international stateswoman.

Not twee, not chavvy, just lovely! Daisy's are fab imo

If Condoleezza Rice can get to a position of power, then I am sure Daisy can pull of the gravitas necessary.
My niece is Daisy, and is 16, intelligent, a tom-boy and not at all pink and girly.

Agree with Hula about names coming round.

It is absolutley ridiculous to suggest a certain name can prevent a woman having any job she is capable of. Daisy is a beautiful name and my daughter adores having it. What the hell is twee anyway?

Daisy is a superb name and is on my list. I've heard it all now; Daisy - 'Chav'??

I know a little Daisy and and an adult Daisy - and it suits both

Daisy is neither twee nor 'chavvy' - try Googling it for some inspirational adult Daisys!

Daisy Dick - team GB
Daisy Asquith - film maker
Daisy Goodwin - writer
Daisy Barnes - artist
Dr Daisy Mwanza-Simwami - academic fellow
Daisy Connolley - comedian

Also Daisy Lowe the model and Daisy Duke! Any Spaced fans out there remember Daisy Steiner?

It's a great name!

Ok sure will offend...but every grown up Daisy I have ever known has been a total tart.

Another mother of a potential tart Daisy here.

I do also like Lucy and Alice, though imo both are a little more 'prim and proper'. Also Lucy often ends up shortened to Luce.