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I love it, but when I brought it up the last time I was on BtN frequently everyone had mostly hate for it.

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"It sounds like flurries."

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Bother.

I like it. I wouldn't use it though - my sister's name is Floor, the Dutch version of it. Maybe as a middle to honour her, but I like Flora better.

I remember reading a novel years ago called "The Women's Room". It was a feminist novel, and while I consider myself to be a feminist and refuse to shy away from the word because it has some negative connotations in the minds of many people, I must admit that this novel was on the extreme side and might be an example of how the word came to have a negative connotation. It detailed the lives of several women who were young, married, bearing and raising children in the 1950s, and its theme was that every single one of them was miserable being a housewife and mother.

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What does this have to do with the name Fleur, you ask? Well, one of the children of one of the women in the book was named Fleur. I'd never heard it before and it struck me as unbearably silly. "Really?", I was asking myself. "Has anyone anywhere ever really named their daughter Fleur? Isn't that the French word for flower? Would you name your kid Flower? Then why name her Fleur?"

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It's been years but I still find it unbearably silly.

Pretentious.

I'm really sorry, but I can't stand this name! Every single time I hear it, it reminds me of the sound someone makes when vomiting! Seriously, that's all I get!

I find it too flowery in a certain way. And not even a specific flower like a lily or a rose, but just flowers in general. Not to mention the Fleur D'lis that won't exit my mind. I at most can only be neutral on this name, and probably more ambivalent.

This message was edited 11/27/2013, 2:13 PM

I really like this name. It is a classic French name and in my opinion it is very beautiful and deserves to be used more often.

I love it. It's so effortless and feminine and dreamy. Obsessed. Seriously.

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I only ever put in the middle name spot because I don't like using short names in the first name spot. I think it's probably my favorite go-to middle name.

I actually really like Fleur. It just appeals to me for some unknown reason.