Beautiful! I have a sweet Aunt Flossie.

Call her Rence for short

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Anonymous wrote:I just love Florence! nn Flora especially. I think the older generation would hate it (boomers) but they named their kids ugly things in my opinion. Florence seems so classy and a great name.

When I picture a "Florence", I think of an old lady in a mumu, not a classy lady.

I picture a cute kid. I don't know any old women named Florence. I'd assume most of them would be 110+ by now.

Sorry the name peaked in the 1890s so they'd be nearly 130 years old.

You are deranged. Who cares when a name supposedly "peaked"?

OP, it's a beautiful name. And I know a couple beautiful ladies in their 20s and 30s with that name.

Ignore the losers.

Ahh I'm a Florence lover. My point was that the pp doesn't know many old women named Florence and an old woman wouldn't be most people's reference. I think of the kids book Flora and the flamingo

Anonymous wrote:I like Flora much better -- it makes me think of flowers.
Florence makes me think of a town in the middle of the desert with a LOT of prisons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Arizona
I think the name has bad mojo. Sorry, OP.

But Flora is lovely, and there have been a couple nice children's books over the past decade with the name Flora in them.

You people are too much. Please don't be so idiotic. Bad mojo? No one will ever think of some random little crappy town. I grew up an hour from a town called Florence and even I think of Italy before anything else.

When I think of Flora I think intestinal flora. But I would never assert that my random weird association meams someone shouldn't name their child that.

I like Flora much better -- it makes me think of flowers.
Florence makes me think of a town in the middle of the desert with a LOT of prisons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Arizona
I think the name has bad mojo. Sorry, OP.

But Flora is lovely, and there have been a couple nice children's books over the past decade with the name Flora in them.

I knew a Florence my age (now 40) who went by Flori.

Both of my grandmothers are named Florence. Both of them were called Flossie as a nickname. One didn't mind it and went by Flossie most of the time. The other one hated it. Obviously, I am biased, but I can't picture the name on anyone other than an old lady.

I love Florence!

I like Flora much better.

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Anonymous wrote:I just love Florence! nn Flora especially. I think the older generation would hate it (boomers) but they named their kids ugly things in my opinion. Florence seems so classy and a great name.

When I picture a "Florence", I think of an old lady in a mumu, not a classy lady.

I picture a cute kid. I don't know any old women named Florence. I'd assume most of them would be 110+ by now.

Sorry the name peaked in the 1890s so they'd be nearly 130 years old.

You are deranged. Who cares when a name supposedly "peaked"?

OP, it's a beautiful name. And I know a couple beautiful ladies in their 20s and 30s with that name.

Ignore the losers.

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Anonymous wrote:I just love Florence! nn Flora especially. I think the older generation would hate it (boomers) but they named their kids ugly things in my opinion. Florence seems so classy and a great name.

When I picture a "Florence", I think of an old lady in a mumu, not a classy lady.

I picture a cute kid. I don't know any old women named Florence. I'd assume most of them would be 110+ by now.

Sorry the name peaked in the 1890s so they'd be nearly 130 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:I just love Florence! nn Flora especially. I think the older generation would hate it (boomers) but they named their kids ugly things in my opinion. Florence seems so classy and a great name.

When I picture a "Florence", I think of an old lady in a mumu, not a classy lady.

I picture a cute kid. I don't know any old women named Florence. I'd assume most of them would be 110+ by now.

Anonymous wrote:SOrry OP. You are signing her up for a lifetime of Aunt Flo(w) jokes.

I don't know ANYONE who says "Aunt Flo" - that's such a weird old fashioned euphemism.

OP - this should not be a worry of yours.