Posey?

[lavenderbag]

What do you think of this? I want to use it as it is, I don't like any of the longer names.

I have a Posy and she suits her name, everyone is mesmerised by her. I have given her two middle names just in case. I know it is a bit flakey, but she was my third girl, i've just had my fourth daughter, you should hear her name!!!!!!!

You can't leave us with that snippet Hetty - spill.

It rhymes with both 'nosy' and 'dozy' which don't bode well for the playground imo.

I agree it would have to be Posy without an e. I would think of something that it could be shortened from.

Its not a name in it's own right, so that's a no for me. I don't like diminutives as given names at all. People should have some choice in the matter, and I don't think it is very fair to be given a name that sounds so "sweet", without a more formal grown up alternative. Posy Simmonds is a Rosemary, and the other name Posie is derived from is Josephine (not quite sure how, I guess Josie -> Posie?). If you don't like either of them then I would choose something else.

Noel Streatfield gave one of the other sisters in Ballet Shoes the name Petrova, so I'd not say she was the best source .

My sister's name is Rosemary, which got shortened to Posy, then Po, which has stuck for the past 30 years much to her dismay!