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Don't like it

Perhaps I'm part of the last generation that knows about the Rupert the Bear stories/strips. If so, then there isn't a problem, apart from the obvious oddity of a large feline carnivore plus a fragrant, drooping flower. (And, yes, I am familiar with the flower named Tiger Lily and the reason for that name. Plenty of people aren't.) But, in the Rupert stories (he's a teddy bear) his friend Tigerlily is a Chinese human who turns up now and then and causes confusion.

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For my own part, Tiger seems silly and of all the flower names that I dislike, Lily is probably top of the list. So it's all kinds of Nay.

It's one flower name that I actually do truly like.

Yay. I like it.

I am not in the mood today. I associate it with a shallow "exotic" American stereotype of Asianness, or generally an image of "exotic, foreign, wild and delicate and sexay!!" ... it seems very gimmicky ... subtly suggestive and trivializing ... an imagey "marketing"-like name. Suitable for a has-been pop-star's baby. Or a Midwestern restaurant attached to a hotel, or a line of cheap cosmetics aimed at tweens.
Worse than Briar-Rose or Skylark or Calliope or Summer Rain. About as bad as Peaches or Winter Rose or Lexus.
"Cheesy: 3. vulgarly pretentious or sentimental"
I also dislike that it has the sound of "girlie" in it.

This message was edited 2/17/2023, 7:28 PM

Guilty pleasure, I like it.

lame ...

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Like Mirfak said, it's like a cheap brand of something.
Also like a name a tween girl would give her tiger-striped kitten, thinking it was so much more original than Tiger or Lily, but usually ends up calling the cat ... Tiger or Lily.

It's a beautiful word and flower. I think it might be a fun middle name, but I would not like to grow up as a Tigerlily. For a self-chosen name I think it's nice, but for a child, not so great.

yay for a pet, nay for a human

I dislike it because of the culturally insensitive implications at play with the names history.. but again I think it would be a decent pet name.