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Peony and Pansy together sound like the names of bratty identical twins who go to a boarding school.

I used to like Pansy (when I was a kid and I had never heard it used as slang for wimp before). I like Peony! (PEE-o-nee, which is more like PEE-uh-nee in my accent.)

Both are lovely flowers. But...I know this is VERY, very childish, but I think Peony sounds like "pee on me". And isn't Pansy a derogative term for an effeminate (is that the right word in English?) guy? Not that there's anything wrong with being an effeminate guy, but...

This message was edited 12/26/2016, 11:58 AM

PEEuhnee, which is why I would never consider it as a human name.

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Pansy ... lovely flower, but as a name it seems to attract people it really doesn't suit. For vintage comic fans, Pansy Potter the Strong-Man's Daughter; for everyone else, the Harry Potter character. And then of course there was the insulting nn for a gay man. Not a risk I'd willingly take.

I want to like Peony because I like the flower, but I somehow think of pee-on-me with I hear it as a name.
Pansy is obviously a duerrogatory term, so I wouldn't use it.

Pansy is unusable in my opinion... another word of wimp. Also it just soinds sort of grating to me. Peony is alright, but I think there are prettier flower names. But it's cute.

I love both, though I prefer Peony, which I pronounce "PEE-uh-nee."

Pansy, because although I used to like Peony, the pronunciation of it (PEE-uh-nee) recently hit me. Pansy is so much prettier!

This message was edited 12/25/2016, 1:27 PM

I like them both! In English Peony is pronounced PEE-uh-nee. Although I've also heard it as PEE-oh-nee.

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I prefer Pansy, just because I really love the flower.

Hi !!!

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I like both as names!!!
I love flowery names!

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But I prefer Peony.
This is because I'm a Harry Potter's stuff fan so for me Pansy is only the annoying character in this series... unfurtunately because I like this kind of names.

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Peony is lovely.
I don't know how it is pronounced in English but I will pronounce it in a similar way to its Italian variant Peonia so peh-OH- nyah.

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Byeeeeeeeee