Can Daisy be taken seriously?

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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.

No, I don’t tell people what to name their kids or criticize them for not doing exactly what I want. That’s a you thing.

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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.

Not sure thinking a name is not sophisticated is the same as it being widely used slang for vagina.

I have a good friend named Daisie-she has a PhD and has never mentioned not being taken seriously because of her name.

I have a work acquaintance named Dazzle. My friend’s kids had a teacher named Sparkle. I think the Daisys of the world will be just fine.

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Daisy is a really popular golden retriever name. So there's that.

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If you are naming your new puppy

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Daisy Duck.
Daisy Chain.

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No.
That's one of the top 5 dog names.

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That's one of the top 5 dog names.

Here’s the top 10 list. Are you equally opposed to the others on the list, out of curiosity?

1. Luna
2. Bella
3. Charlie
4. Cooper
5. Lucy
6. Max
7. Daisy
8. Bailey
9. Milo
10. Sadie