Currently crushing on Poppy? What does nameberry think?

I haven’t really seen [name]Poppy[/name] mentioned around here before; so what do we think?

[name]Poppy[/name] [name]Alice[/name] Castles?
[name]Poppy[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name] Castles?

(both family middle names)
I’m not 100% sold but it is my current fad :slight_smile: hehe :slight_smile:

[ps; sorry I post lots on these forums, bit obsessed!]

Cute! Maybe a little too cute for a grown woman, though. I’d use it as a middle name in a heartbeat, but I’m unsure on [name]Poppy[/name] as a first name.

[name]Poppy[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name] is great! I love the combination of cute/spunky + classic.

I love [name]Poppy[/name]! I do find it kind of hard to see on a grown woman, but a picture it on the cutest little girl.

I don’t consider it usable as a formal name, casual nn-material only.

I think it’s a beautiful name, but I agree that for some it might be hard to wear as an adult.

Maybe [name]Penelope[/name] nn [name]Poppy[/name] or even [name]Phillipa[/name]?

Far too immature and juvenile for my liking. I also am not a fan of the sound.

I have a friend named [name]Paola[/name] and we called her “[name]Poppy[/name]/ poppy seed” as a nickname, lol! So to me it just fun, personal friends and family nickname material, not a formal ,given name.

It’s cute, but I don’t believe a grown woman can carry the name.

i love it, especially with [name]Elizabeth[/name], and i don’t think it’s juvenile. it has a British feel to me, which is makes it more elegant than it might seem otherwise.

I like a lot of the obscure British flower names beyond [name]Rose[/name]/[name]Lily[/name]/[name]Violet[/name] and I normally love botanicals but I don’t like [name]Poppy[/name]. It sounds like something you call the baby’s grandfather. And poppies themselves are beautiful but morbid flowers, two major associations: bloodsoaked battlegrounds and opium.

I really like [name]Ivy[/name], [name]Rosemary[/name], [name]Jessamine[/name], [name]Jonquil[/name], etc… and I don’t mind [name]Posy[/name] as a nickname for [name]Josephine[/name]… and maybe [name]Poppy[/name] would be okay short for [name]Penelope[/name]… but on it’s own, I’m not a fan.

I don’t think it will age well, it sounds too cutesy. I can’t imagine a powerful and strong woman with the name [name]Poppy[/name].

I’m really sorry and perhaps this may be too honest but the first thing I thought of was that [name]Poppy[/name] sounds like a really bad stripper name :confused:

The only association I have with [name]Poppy[/name] is that it’s a nn for grandpa, so to me it sounds really odd for a girl.

[name]Love[/name] it, I don’t think it matters the age eithe. I think it’s spunky and I’m sure she would grow into it. Eg. [name]Poppy[/name] [name]Montgomery[/name]

I love [name]Poppy[/name]! I think it sounds really upbeat, cute and quirky and I love the flower connection. My only reservations for using the name is that in Australia many people call their grandparents [name]Poppy[/name] or Pop (my gf had a [name]Poppy[/name] and a Poppel) although I didn’t call mine that. Also my partners last name is [name]Parker[/name] and I think [name]Poppy[/name] [name]Parker[/name] sounds like a cartoon character :frowning:

All you guys are saying, it’s totally not professional and it doesn’t look good on an adult, well i always thought that too, until my friends mum who is a very distinguished woman (school teacher married to a lawyer) goes by [name]Poppy[/name] and it is not too cutsey at all, it is a nickname for [name]Calliope[/name] because she hates her name so much.

I WANT to like it…I love flower names generally. But “[name]Poppy[/name]” sounds like something a child might call their grandfather.

I like kind of nicknamey first names, and I [name]LOVE[/name] [name]Poppy[/name]. I knew the most adorable, sweet, beautiful little [name]Poppy[/name], so that’s how I imagine a [name]Poppy[/name] to be. I say go for it! I think it sounds the best with [name]Elizabeth[/name]. If she grows up and feels like her name isn’t formal enough, she can always go by her middle name.

Nickname or middle name only. Plus I live around a lot of Spanish-speaking people that call their father’s Papi

The main point is it isn’t her real name. She doesn’t have [name]Poppy[/name] on her resume. Nobody said [name]Poppy[/name] was a bad nn

I want to like [name]Poppy[/name], but almost [name]EVERY[/name] time I try to type it on a keyboard I miss the first time and write ‘Poopy’ instead. So the fact that it’s only one letter off from poopy kind of throws me, as juvenile as that sounds. I just see a little [name]Poppy[/name] being teased unless she had a full name to go back to. Like [name]Penelope[/name] “[name]Poppy[/name]”. Also I think [name]Poppy[/name] Castles is a little silly, sorry :frowning:

I like it. I think there’s an actress with this name, so to me, it can sit well on an adult woman. [name]Love[/name] [name]Poppy[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name]! I think I like the substantial middle name with it. [name]Poppy[/name] [name]Alice[/name] is cute too tho!