Can Daisy be taken seriously?

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The name is too easily made fun of. Crazy Daisy.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s fine. When someone introduces themselves you say “nice to meet you” and move on. I literally don’t even think twice about someone’s name (unless it’s the first time hearing it). That’s just who the person is known as. If it’s anything more than that, YOU are the problem. People overthink way too much, and this is why every kid has the same boring name.

Hmm, I feel like the overthinking can also go the other way, and make some people obsess over giving a child the most perfectly unique name that will dictate a specific personality and command respect and make people like them. But it turns out you could have named them Sophia or Theo or some other popular name and they would have led the same life.

Which is not to say people should give their kids common names— I like when I hear a variety of names. But it just doesn’t matter that much. If OP likes Daisy, she should give her DD that name. If she prefers Emma or Clementine or Sophia or Mildred, she should do that. It doesn’t matter, it’s entirely up to the parents, and it is not going to make or break your kid unless you are naming them Hitler or something.

You’re disgusting.

Do. How is pp disgusting? Babies don't name themselves! It is up to the parents. When baby grows up they can change it

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Anonymous wrote:The name is too easily made fun of. Crazy Daisy.

Kids can find a way to make fun even if the person has a name you approve. Daisy is a perfectly fine name.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Margaret is a very pretty name, imo. It on my short list if we’d had a girl.

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Anonymous wrote:Name her Margaret, call her Daisy.

Why does Margaret have all these nicknames that aren't related to the name...Peggy, Daisy. Where do they come from?

This was answered up threads. Margaret comes from the French word for Daisy.

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Anonymous wrote:The name is too easily made fun of. Crazy Daisy.

Kids can find a way to make fun even if the person has a name you approve. Daisy is a perfectly fine name.

+1, give me literally any name and I can give you a way to make fun of it (an easy, non-stretch, tease). I dare you to come up with a name you can’t turn into an insult.

Here’s a few for free:

Sloane the Moan
Thick Thea/Theo
Leo, Pee-o

Kids actually rarely do this anymore because bullying is treated as a problem instead of an inevitability now, but if someone decides they dislike your child, it will be easy to come up with a mean nickname. Crazy Daisy is actually mild and not even that mean!

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Daisy Duke

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Anonymous wrote:Daisy Duke

This reference is meaningless to anyone under the age of 35. And it’s a compliment for a significant percent of the people over the age of 35.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like it for an older person. I don’t know a single person with this name, and I just don’t think it works.

Make it a middle name! Nickname her, but I wouldn’t make it her first name.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like it for an older person. I don’t know a single person with this name, and I just don’t think it works.

Make it a middle name! Nickname her, but I wouldn’t make it her first name.

So people can only give their kids names if you, personally, have met an adult with that name? Huh. Seems extremely limiting.

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LOVE

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Daisy BB guns!

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Daisy, Rose, Hyacinth etc.

My best friend is named Rose.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisy-robinton-phd-97785b35/
https://dccfar.gwu.edu/daisy-le-phd-mph-ma
https://apnews.com/article/daisy-veerasingham-ap-ceo-gary-pruitt-2041881239a458bddeb202368ba70d4c

Plus it will be a memorable name that people have positive associations with (daisies are pretty, cheerful, a little wild, but never harmful or unpleasant). And if YOU like it, you will enjoy saying it several trillion times in the course of her life.

Don't listen to these judgmental PPs. Yes, there are absolutely people who will judge you for giving your DD what they consider to be a "cutesy" name. But here are the other things people will 100% judge a baby name for being: too common, too different, too hard to pronounce, to easy to shorten, too hard to shorten, too short, too trendy, too "try hard", too feminine, not feminine enough, too French, too similar to their least favorite aunt's name. And that's just a taste.

Do not skip a baby name you love because some anonymous person on the internet told you it was too hard for them to imagine a Dr. Daisy, or a Daisy PhD, or a Judge Daisy, or a Daisy CEO. It's not.

Oh, and also it's a top 50 name in the UK. I wonder how many Daisies have Oxford degrees? But I guess they're all silly, too?

Yes, but I think the British have a different aesthetic when it comes to names, particularly flower names. They also commonly use Poppy and Marigold, both of which might cause head tilts over here. If this is an American child who will likely live most of their life here, then it make sense to give them a name that will command respect here. I wouldn't tell someone in the UK that it was fine to name their daughter Fanny. It's about cultural context.

Do you live in DC? Or any international city? Cultural norms don’t have firm borders. “American” culture has always been an amalgam anyway. My child attends school with kids who have names from all different cultural traditions. No one would blink at Daisy. Here, in the US.

I think these name threads are frequented by the DCUM posters from places that are not very cosmopolitan. It’s the only explanation for posts like the above.

Well, I'm from NYC and have lived in major international cities all over the world throughout my life and I don't like Daisy specifically because I don't think it's cosmopolitan. It reads as a hayseed, farm girl name to me, nothing sophisticated about it.

This just makes you provincial in a different way. Look up cosmopolitan. A truly cosmopolitan attitude would not deride someone from being from a rural area. Being cosmopolitan means to embrace people of all different origins. Not just people from big cities or who seem sophisticated to you.

You are offering an extremely limited outlook. That’s the opposite of cosmopolitan.

So you would encourage your British friends to name a child Fanny? And if they demurred, you’d call them provincial? Alrighty then.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisy-robinton-phd-97785b35/
https://dccfar.gwu.edu/daisy-le-phd-mph-ma
https://apnews.com/article/daisy-veerasingham-ap-ceo-gary-pruitt-2041881239a458bddeb202368ba70d4c

Plus it will be a memorable name that people have positive associations with (daisies are pretty, cheerful, a little wild, but never harmful or unpleasant). And if YOU like it, you will enjoy saying it several trillion times in the course of her life.

Don't listen to these judgmental PPs. Yes, there are absolutely people who will judge you for giving your DD what they consider to be a "cutesy" name. But here are the other things people will 100% judge a baby name for being: too common, too different, too hard to pronounce, to easy to shorten, too hard to shorten, too short, too trendy, too "try hard", too feminine, not feminine enough, too French, too similar to their least favorite aunt's name. And that's just a taste.

Do not skip a baby name you love because some anonymous person on the internet told you it was too hard for them to imagine a Dr. Daisy, or a Daisy PhD, or a Judge Daisy, or a Daisy CEO. It's not.

Oh, and also it's a top 50 name in the UK. I wonder how many Daisies have Oxford degrees? But I guess they're all silly, too?

Yes, but I think the British have a different aesthetic when it comes to names, particularly flower names. They also commonly use Poppy and Marigold, both of which might cause head tilts over here. If this is an American child who will likely live most of their life here, then it make sense to give them a name that will command respect here. I wouldn't tell someone in the UK that it was fine to name their daughter Fanny. It's about cultural context.

Do you live in DC? Or any international city? Cultural norms don’t have firm borders. “American” culture has always been an amalgam anyway. My child attends school with kids who have names from all different cultural traditions. No one would blink at Daisy. Here, in the US.

I think these name threads are frequented by the DCUM posters from places that are not very cosmopolitan. It’s the only explanation for posts like the above.

Well, I'm from NYC and have lived in major international cities all over the world throughout my life and I don't like Daisy specifically because I don't think it's cosmopolitan. It reads as a hayseed, farm girl name to me, nothing sophisticated about it.

Daisy Buchanan was about as far from a country hayseed as one could get.

No, she was just a terrible person.