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Flora is fine, but I prefer Florence and especially Laura. Flower is foolish. Fleur is close to the edge, but fine.

Flora is lovely, Flower is laughable.

I dislike both of those. Flora seems old ladyish and fussy. Flower seems like a joke. The skunk in Bambi is what comes to mind. I much prefer Fleur or naming directly after a flower like Rose or Lily.

I like Flora a lot. Flower is good in certain circumstances. I think it's an adorable name for an animal. But in my accent Flower and Flour have the same pronunciation, and Flour is less fun as a name. If I had to pick a Flower-ish name for a real human person I might go with Blossom first.

I'm not particularly fond of either, but I prefer Flower over Flora. Flora feels very trendy to me, while Flower is quirky and original.

I really like Flora, but Flower just doesn’t work for me.

I was thinking about Flower as an alternative to Fleur or Flora the other day; it sounds unappealingly like flour, but then, Fleur sounds like floor to me, and Flora vaguely reminds me of bacterial flora, so I could learn to ignore that, I think. Flower is pretty in an unadorned way, yet it has some pizzazz, about like Jewel. It's a nature name obviously but has the common/trendy surname *er ending like Clover (which is charting!), Winter, River, Ember, and it's an optimistic type word name like Hope, Sunny, Dawn, and Prosper. I like that it's not as polished as Florence maybe...I feel that I should like Florence but never have really.

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Flora seems like a cool name for an elderly Italian matriach while also somewhat current/young, but I prefer Cora and Zora of similar sounding names. The vibe reminds me of Luna, Aurora, and Fauna a bit, and I might slightly prefer those to Flora, too.

This message was edited 4/7/2023, 5:43 PM

Don't like either

Flora is quite pretty.

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Flower is ridiculous and reminds me of the cartoon skunk.

Sleeping Beauty- Flora, Fauna and Merryweather the three good fairies. Flower Bambi’s name for the skunk in Bambi

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They are fine for mythical creatures and animals but not for children. I could see someone using Flora though in the Britain it is also the name of a brand of margarine.

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When I was running a rainbow unit which are girls 4-7 years old (British equivalent of Daisies) all the leaders used flower names I was Bluebell and we also had Daisy, Poppy, Sunflower, Snowdrop, Rose, Petal and Blossom. Again Flora and Fauna would fit perfectly as leader nicknames for the girls to call us.

This message was edited 4/9/2023, 2:02 PM