"'Flower' could have a nameday on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter) is the day of flowers and willows (the names of the other trees also have a nameday)."In Romania, persons (especially women) who only have a Flower name celebrate their name day on Palm Sunday (Floriile in Romanian, which roughly translates as the Flowers Day). This name day is unfixed and is celebrated each year on the last Sunday before Orthodox Easter.
Flower is a character in Battle For Dream Island, an animated YouTube web series inspired by Total Drama. She is depicted as an anthropomorphic flower with arms and legs, and is notable for being the first contestant on the series to be voted out. https://www.youtube.com/@BFDI
Flower Msuya is a Tanzanian phycologist. She specialises in algaculture (seaweed farming) and integrated aquaculture.
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Flower A. Newhouse (born Mildred "Mimi" Arlene Sechler; 1909 – 1994) was an American Christian mystic and spiritual teacher.
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General Flower Mocher (c. 1729 – 1801), was a British army officer who served 50 years in the cavalry. He initially obtained a commission with Hawley's Dragoons then, following 12 years service with the Horse Grenadier Guards, he served 17 years with the Dragoon Guards as their Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. Two years before his appointment as a general officer he was made Colonel of the 9th Regiment of Dragoons in Ireland. After some years service as deputy to the commander-in-chief Ireland he retired in 1794 shortly before his appointment to the rank of full General.
― Anonymous User 11/11/2022
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This name's alright (wouldn't use it, though for obvious reasons), but we all remember the skunk from Bambi...he was male, and his name was Flower! Something about that feels off...
Just name her Rose, or literally any other flower name for that matter.
― Anonymous User 6/30/2020
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People are just gonna associate her with the character from Battle For Dream Island. She is highly unlikable and slightly whiny, getting better as a character though. Bad idea regardless, however. Just go with something more "normal", like Violet, Blossom, or Rose.
― Anonymous User 4/21/2020
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Blegh. I prefer Flower names to the actual name Flower.
Wow a lot of you seem to hate this. I like this name, it has a charming simplicity to it. I see many here associate it with different things but nothing truly of what a Flower is. Once you take away any type of applicable and unfortunate associations to the name you can start to appreciate it. A Flower is something we find visually attractive in nature, it holds a very natural beauty. Call me relentless or pretentious, but I honestly wouldn't be bothered by this name if it were given to a boy or a girl. The holder of the name would have to be bold, but I don't care what people think. I like it.
A girl with the name would probably have such hippy parents for sure. Heck, they would even dress her up as a flower. Sorry but I don’t like this name. It’s too pretentious for me. Blossom is better for a girl. At least it’s not plain.
I have just come across the marriage of a Flower Fry and an Edward Woddy in Hampshire, England, in 1740. I stared at the name Flower, and then at other names on the image, for some time to make sure that I was not misreading the clergymen's eighteenth century handwriting and that the bride's name was in fact Honor or Honour. But no, my eyes did not deceive me! Flower Fry she was.
There are plenty of flower names that I love, but Flower as a name itself would have to be pulled off by the most girliest girl in the universe who has a super ultra-feminine personality. I would hate to see this on a butchy tomboy girl who only associates with masculinity, let alone any kind of male, even a feminine male. Flower as a name would belong to a family who is pure hippy. They would even give it to a boy. Flower is kinda acceptable as a name, maybe a little too cutesy. It’s not too bad as a girl’s name, but definitely not for a boy.
― Anonymous User 12/31/2018
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*Guesses that about 80% of people who give negative impressions of word names only come to the site to do so* Just curious-- how is naming my child "Nitzan" meaning 'Flower bud' in Hebrew any different from naming my child "Flower" in English? Same thing only different languages...
This name just dosen't impress me and it looks and sounds quite bland. I would rather use Flora which is a name also derived from Latin flos meaning "Flower". It sounds better and looks better.
What a dumb, brainless, hippy nameThere are plenty of flower names. Naming your child 'Flower' is going overboard.
― Anonymous User 9/7/2014
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I'm sorry, but this is worse than Blossom - and Blossom is a pretty bad name for people and should be reserved for animals. Aside from the "Flower" character in Bambi (an ironically-named skunk), I can't imagine this as any living thing's name. Seriously, it's a part of a plant. Should we start using "Stamen" as a name?At least Flora, Fleur, etc. Sound nice. Flower doesn't even have a very attractive sound.
― Anonymous User 7/13/2014
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I've known one girl who's middle name was Flower and she went by it. It was strange at first but eventually it just becomes another name.There's a woman I'd never met but I met her mother. The mother thought she was so clever and amazing when she named her daughter Flaugher, pronounced like Flower. Yeah...I think Flower names are fine but Flower itself is a bit silly. I would keep it for the animals. If that.
Fleur and Flora work. Ergo, Flower could work. People here are quick to laugh off anything they haven't come across in real life themselves without stopping to try and put their finger on the real aspect of the name they find so ludicrous. Flower does sound like a hippy name, I'll admit. Many names do. Personally, I like it in the middle spot. It's also a surname in the history of many couples so no doubt it comes up for consideration there.
WOW! I typed in Flower and I did not expect it to be an official name. All I can say is that it is pretty for a plant but you are crazy to name your child this. Just name them a type of flower like Rose or Lily or something.
The Most. Ignorant. Comment. Ever. In my opinion, this name is very hippie, and it doesn't even have a pleasant sound to it. I would go for Lily or Iris or what have you, if I wanted a “flowery” name for my daughter – one that would not ensure her a lot of teasing.
Well excuse me but actually Flower is a beautiful name. That's my name! Not in English but in Spanish "flor" and it's beautiful regardless of what you say. Don't hate.
― Anonymous User 10/29/2008
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I don't think naming a child Flower is that bad. You could always use it as a middle name. In Yiddish you find Blume and in Spanish Flor.
It doesn't sound very pretty, what with the identical pronunciation to 'flour'. This name is a hypernym, as opposed to hyponym, which sort of explains why this sounds so weird as a name when compared to Flower names that sound quite normal.
Hello! The '60s are OVER! & Guess what - these types of words are objects. NOT names!
― Anonymous User 3/20/2008
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I don't see why some people (or most people, in this case, hehe) don't like this name. Yes, it's simple, but that's why I like it so much. Over-complex names can be a mouthful.
I find it amusing that many people object to the name "Flower" on the basis that it's a recognisable English word. Has everyone forgotten that this is precisely how names came into being in the first place? Names are/were just words or compounds of words from a language. For example, in Mayan the name "Ixchel" is literally a smush of the words Rainbow + Lady and in modern English the name "Verity" means, er well, Verity! According to the logic behind those comments saying "Flower" is not valid as a name, neither is Ixchel or Verity in their respective cultures. The notion that names should not be recognisable words within their own languages is an entirely modern fallacy.
Heh, I named my favorite stuffed mouse doll Flower when I was little. It doesn't seem like the most creative name, although it is nice. I think it's a bit too simple to be a person's name though.
I've got no problem with someone giving the name to their child--after all, look at how popular "Fleur" and "Flora" have become, it's the same to me--but maybe it's just because of the accent I have or the general pronunciation of the word where I live, but the name just doesn't sound very nice to my ear. Surprisingly rough (the "OW" is just too defined), actually, despite its meaning.But then, it could all just be my voice. I'm sure it sounds lovely with someone saying it, or with a person's personality (that really does effect the impression of the name in the end, much more so than the name effects the person), and I'm positive in a country that English isn't the dominant language, the name sounds even more attractive (or so my friend who grew up in France tells me, "English is probably the most beautiful-sounding language, unless you grew up speaking it").
I agree with you on the fact that Flower is a ridiculous for a child, but then why do you have the name Wisdom listed as one of your favorites? If naming your child Wisdom isn't "planning out your kid's personality for them" then I don't know what is.
I am not sure it's a good name for a first name but it would be good as a surname because I know people who have Flower as a surname. And most English words can be a surname, like Cook. So yeah it could make a good surname.
― Anonymous User 9/19/2006
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Please, if you love flowers, give your baby girl the name of an actual flower--such as Violet, Rose, Daisy, Peony, Iris, or Azalea!
― Anonymous User 7/27/2006
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I REALLY don't see any worthwhile appellative value in this so-called "cognomen". *Bangs head against the wall with laughter* What I mean is this is a plant! The actual plant name! This childish idiosyncratic garbage, I do not understand!
I'd just like to say, Starla_Marie that a flower is not a plant, it is a plant organ. If a flower were a plant it would be just as acceptable as Rose, Iris, Daisy, etc.
"Flower" could have a nameday on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter) is the day of flowers and willows (the names of the other trees also have a nameday).
In Romania, persons (especially women) who only have a Flower name celebrate their name day on Palm Sunday (Floriile in Romanian, which roughly translates as the Flowers Day). This name day is unfixed and is celebrated each year on the last Sunday before Orthodox Easter.