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[Opinions] Mayflower
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A beautiful name - with numerous petnames, nicknames, or shortnames to use upon familiarity or intimacy of relation.This also reminds me of another name I like, Nina, but not to throw this back to the colonials - we also have Martha, Quinn & JJ; yet it also reminds me of the late writing of T.S. Eliot & the early writing of Albert Camus.A lovely name indeed!

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May: yes but no to flower. That's too much\too bizarre and hippyish galorMayflower could probably get away better with being a middle name I admit
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The daughter of Aprilshower?
har, har.It would be possible (though too twee for my taste) if not for the famous ship.
But the ship makes it almost ugly.
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Good one!I hadn't thought about the ship.
I wonder if the ship was named for the kind of mayflower I have in mind (trailing arbutus), or just a flower that blooms in May?(mildly interesting fact)-the mayflower is also the state flower of Mass.(U.S.)
Not surprising as the climate there is much the same as Nova Scotia.
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Modern virtue name for Tea Party members? More feminine, since she's a ship, and both parts (May, Flower) are more likely as feminine names.
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Hi !!!!It is quite strange...
But I like very much the link with the famous ship.
And it remember also the nature so...
I think it could be good as a unisex given name..
I heard worse names! XDByeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Interesting you think of it as a given name, it sounds very feminine to me. I think because May is a female name and flower names are generally feminine.
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I live in a city where the Mayflower is well known a) as a ship, b) as a theatre, c) as a park. It sounds like a landmark rather than a person!
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The flower of my birth-province, Nova Scotia!Not spectacular to see, but beautiful scent. You could call someone Mayflower.
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Too political. Which is a pity, 'cause it's a beautiful word.
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Dang. I love May and flowers, but it seems a bit insincere as a first name. I could see it as a middle name, or as noel suggested, a nickname for May.
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Hi, even very unusual, but somehow impressive First Name;
unfortunately, does not sounds very feminine/female.Appeared in a list of rare-but-real flower names resp. flower, tree and herb names :Furthermore along with Acanthus, Amaryllis, Azalea, Betony, Bryony, Buttercup, Camellia, Cedar, Chrysanthemum, Dandeline, Fuchsia, Geranium, Honeysuckle, Jonquil, Lobelia, Maile (MY-lee) or Mailys, Mistletoe, Rhododendron, Saffron, Tansy, Thistle, Watsonia and Zinnia.
Well, poor kids ...Loves ya
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I would think the parents were VERY patriotic. Then I would think the name itself has a nice sound, and wonder if they ever called her May.
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It sounds like a pet name for someone named May (and used that way, I think it'd be cute). As a formal name, it seems flaky imo.
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It sounds like a hippie name.I don't think it would be usable in the US since people will associate it with the ship that brought the Pilgrims over.
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