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Help[Opinions] Poppy
Thoughts? We've been calling the baby Poppy as a joke and my mom was actually asked if we were really going to name the baby it. I put a status on FB stating that we weren't and was surprised when someone told me they were disappointed.
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One of my absolute fave names, but unfortunately DH doesn't share my enthusiasm for it!
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We were never thinking of using it. I was just surprised when people liked it and I wanted to know what others thoughts.
We were never thinking of using it. I was just surprised when people liked it and I wanted to know what others thoughts.
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It sounds like a rabbit's name.
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I like it and its quite popular here in the UK. However I recently watched an American film with a character called Poppy and hated the eat it was pronounced - with a long A sound where the O should be, like paapy. It's really put me off!
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Poppy is one of a very select group of names that I may truly hate. I just find no redeeming qualities in it whatsoever. It sounds ugly, looks slightly better, is another word for "grandfather," is too similar to the word "poopy," and is quite juvenile. Just ugh. I know you will choose something way better!
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Well, I think of Poppea
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Poppy is one of my least-favorite flower names and it's really trendy. Seems rather precious too. Sorry.
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Opium poppies, not good for a baby name.
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I don't like it! It sounds better for a pet.
It also reminds me the german slang word "poppen" (means: having sex)
It also reminds me the german slang word "poppen" (means: having sex)
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Hey! congrats on your little girl. I remember when you were name searching here. Great choice in the end, Leonie Sophia is a gorgeous combo. Do you use the German or English pronunciation of Leonie?
Hey! congrats on your little girl. I remember when you were name searching here. Great choice in the end, Leonie Sophia is a gorgeous combo. Do you use the German or English pronunciation of Leonie?
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It's fitting for a Golden Retriever.
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I don't like it. It's goofy. And it reminds me of popping pimples and stuff :S
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Its beautiful X Adore this name.
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Poppy is one of my all time favorite names. I've also considered Penelope nickename Poppy but if it flowed well with the surname I'd use Poppy.
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I think it sounds like a joke. Please, don't be one of those people who calls the future child something as a joke and then uses it as their name because they got used to it, and they were exhausted or maybe slightly drugged at the time the baby came.
I don't like Poppy. It seems blowsy and frowzy and silly to me. Goes with Mamie, Lula, Sadie, and Pippa. Poppy is what people call their grandfather. Poppy is the source of opium, and it's symbolically and associatively linked with drugged sleep, death, and bloodshed in war. Poppy how my eyes get when I think that a person I think has nice taste would consider naming her daughter "Poppy."
I don't like Poppy. It seems blowsy and frowzy and silly to me. Goes with Mamie, Lula, Sadie, and Pippa. Poppy is what people call their grandfather. Poppy is the source of opium, and it's symbolically and associatively linked with drugged sleep, death, and bloodshed in war. Poppy how my eyes get when I think that a person I think has nice taste would consider naming her daughter "Poppy."
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Pippa has a dirty meaning in Sweden... which makes it even worse.
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not happening
We have a name set in stone, plus I grew up with an odd name. Not doing that to our kid, although I have should myself referring to baby as Merry Mae. I have to stop doing that NOW.
We have a name set in stone, plus I grew up with an odd name. Not doing that to our kid, although I have should myself referring to baby as Merry Mae. I have to stop doing that NOW.
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When I was pregnant with my first baby, we called him "The Fish." This went on for several months, right up until the day he was born. It started after I first felt the baby move. I told my husband it felt like a little fish was flipping around inside me.
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My parents still call me their fetus nickname and I'm 20.
I've been Sneed, after a one-liner in a W.C. Fields movie, for my entire life. Only a family nickname, though, thankfully.
I've been Sneed, after a one-liner in a W.C. Fields movie, for my entire life. Only a family nickname, though, thankfully.
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My husbands side has a tradition of giving silly names to the fetus. We went with Poppy because that was the size of the fetus with we had our first ultrasound.
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We called our son "Turnip" while I was pregnant with him, and continued to call him that on occasion until he was over a year old. :) It sort of faded out though, haven't really called him that since.
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We just called Valerie She, but Phillip often referred to us collectively as You Ladies or You Girls.
That's when I was farther along. Before that we just said "it."
That's when I was farther along. Before that we just said "it."
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Let me guess: he was a pisces
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It's icky and cutesy and sounds like baby-talk.
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Poppy is my best friends dog. It's a dogs name, although I've known a couple of children with the name, I still think it suits a pet better because it really doesn't age. At all.
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DUMB. That's how much I hate this name, it's in all caps.
Sorry, but I really, REALLY don't like it. :P
Sorry, but I really, REALLY don't like it. :P
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