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Actually, I thought of it as a surname (so cross referenced John Jacob Astor and the Titanic) before the flower came to mind. The first syllable feels even more the focus in this than it does in Astrid for me so, while I could acknowledge it as a nature name theoretically, it does not strike me as usable on a practical level, in the sense that I would not enjoy finding myself the center of attention on the playground simply because my name was the easiest with which to draw the same rude, boring taunt every school year. I have the same feeling about Dorcas.

This message was edited 3/21/2013, 8:10 PM