Can Daisy be taken seriously?
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Anonymous
| I love the name Daisy so much but I’m worried I just cannot picture it on a working adult. Is Daisy too juvenile a name? Or am I overthinking it? |
Anonymous
| Use it as a private term of endearment and not a formal or public nickname. |
Anonymous
| Personally, I do think it’s juvenile. I’d give her a more formal name so she has the option of using it when she is older. |
Anonymous
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Yes. You’re asking, I’m answering.
I think it’s too cutesy. I hate “little girl names”. Do Margaret, or leave it as a private nickname, or middle name. My husband nixed Joshua as a name but we used it for a middle and one the many nicknames I call our son is Joshy. 
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Anonymous
| Do it as the middle. You can call her Daisy for as long as you like, in conjunction with her first name. Plenty of kids have family nicknames. Only my family calls me Emmy; to everyone else I’m Emily. |
Anonymous
| It’s an adorable nickname for Margaret and a pretty limiting given name. Go for Margaret, nn Daisy. She’ll thank you someday. |
Anonymous
| Name her Margaret, call her Daisy. |
Anonymous
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Taken in the abstract, people might not have associations to people with heft and associate it more with trivial things. I think as a name assigned to a specific person they’re introduced to or correspond with, the association would be immediately transferred to that individual and cease to be trivial. So if asked in the abstract, I might think of the song or the flower, if introduced in person, I’d probably think something along the lines of “Oh, that’s a lovely name that you don’t hear very often.”
FWIW, here’s a list of notable Daisys: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_(given_name)#People |
Anonymous
| How does Margaret = daisy? |
Anonymous
Marguerite is French for Daisy. It's a bit of a stretch, but Margaret has fifty-eleven nicknames and IMO Daisy is no worse than Peggy in terms of "how'd you get there from here?" |
Anonymous
I disagree with the other posters. I think if adult women can be called "Katie" than Daisy is fine. Much better than Margaret...yike |
Anonymous
dp Why state the obvious so rudely? |
Anonymous
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Yes, it's cutesy southern like Junie Bell, Lily Mae, etc. Just use as a nickname or middle name/nickname. But puck a pretty first name, not Margaret/Marge.
Simone Daisey? |
Anonymous
I think think comparing Daisy and Joshy is like comparing apples and oranges. While Daisy may be a nickname for Margaret, it’s not a diminutive. Most nicknames are not diminutive. (William, Bill/Will vs. Billy/Willy). Daisy is also a legitimate name by itself, like Rose, Violet, Iris, etc. For Joshua, Josh would be a common nickname. Joshy is only a diminutive and not a common one. While it’s a cutesy family name for a kid, it would be unlikely that anyone outside the family would ever use that name other than to tease. |
Anonymous
But Katie made a choice - she had another name to go by if she preferred. It’s boxing Daisy in to a cutesy name that is objectionable. |