Fleur?

[Nabs]

What do people think of the name Fleur? Am due with a baby girl in 3 weeks and my DH suddently threw this name into consideration. I do like it but have not heard many ?
Also like Matilda, Thea, Elizabeth, & Ava.
Opionions gratefully received!
Thanks
Nabs

Apparently, my Dad wanted to call me Fleur. Although its not a name I'd chose myself I do quite like it.

Out of your list I would avoid Ava as its so popular.

Love Thea, Matilda and Elizabeth.

Hmmm. somehow prefer good old English Florie. Fleur somehow just a little bit fey. Like calling the child Flower or Petal. Forsyte Saga innit? (no I'm not QUITE that old to have sat watching that in the sixties but my mother loved it!)

I love it!
Like it with Elizabeth as a middle name.

Also like Thea.

Agree with Ineed that Ava is very popular at the moment, though it is a nice name. I love Thea too. Not sure about Fleur TBH.

Sorry don't like it. My Mum wanted to call me Fleur I'm eternally grateful she didn't.

Rhymes with bleurgh and eurgh..

Matilda, Ava and Thea were on my list too. Only Dh would say Fee-a so we wouldn't have that one.

Fleur is nice,better than the rest.

Not that keen, sounds a bit poncy to me.

Matilda is lovely, as is Ava and Elisabeth.

Like Fleur, prefer Flora. I think that Thea is too similar to 'Fear' iyswim

i used to know one, she was a lunatic, so no from me

I like it a lot. Flora was on my girls list when pg with DC3 as I was worried I couldn't carry off a DD called Fleur.

It's very pretty.

It's nice written down.

But I don't like the way it sounds like bleurgh.

I like Fleur. Don't go for Flora. I heard a joke once about Marge, Flora and their younger sister Ican'tbelieveitsnotbutter

Wouldn't choose Thea, sounds like you've got a lisp when you say it.

i knew a fleur at school..you imagine a pretty,gentle nymph-like little girl with a name like that. this fleur looked more like a helga!!
felt really sorry for her.plus we all said..fleeeeeeeuuuuuurrgggghhhhh then pretended to be sick (kids are cruel!)
so bear that in mind,if your little girl may turn out to be 6 ft,don't call her 'flower'!

i knew one just like that motherbeyond

if you and dp breed tiny little fine featured things then go for it - really it is lovely

if your dd could be amazonian steer clear

I think Fleur is a lovely name.

mother The only Helga I know is a 7 stone pole-dancer!

I really like Fleur! Beautiful and feminine.

I'm with Motherbeyond. I think it rhymes with blur. I love all your other names, especially Thea.

Not keen on Thea, but love all the others. I went to school with a Fleur many years ago.

I don't like it at all I'm afraid, sounds too much like the sound you make when you're disgusted to me. Nice meaning but not a nice sound. I love your other names though!

Go for Elizabeth. Great name, very flexible. I prefer Alethea, Theodora or Dorothea to just Thea. Matilda I think is relatively popular now, but has some good roots. Ava to me is just too short I'm afraid I also think that Fleur is rather ugly sounding, for reasons already given.

I don't like it. I just don't think ti works with any kind of UK accent. It sounds like 'Urghhhh!'.

Thea and Elizabeth are both nice.