Floral names

[conahy calling]

I have come across Hazel and Maple, both for girls

[JohninSussex]

Nigella (had a wdytya, don't remember if there was crying in that one)
Honeysuckle (Weeks)
Iris

[Ruskie]

Nigella (had a wdytya, don't remember if there was crying in that one)

I thought that one was named after the father rather than a flower. 

I have a great fondness for Virtue names, also old fashioned with some more popular than others.

[gazania]

My mother-in-law, b 1900, was named Violet and her two sisters were Lily and Daisy.  The brothers had more conventional names. Gazania  (which is an African daisy)

[Ruskie]

Gazania  (which is an African daisy)

Lovely and very hardy.

[Gillg]

Ruskie
By Virtue names I guess you mean Charity, Prudence, Clemency(my favourite), Chastity (see "Emmerdale") etc.  Difficult to live up to, especially the last one.  I had a friend called Melody - it just didn't suit her at all.  She couldn't even sing in tune.

[Ruskie]

Ruskie
By Virtue names I guess you mean Charity, Prudence, Clemency(my favourite), Chastity (see "Emmerdale") etc.  Difficult to live up to, especially the last one.  I had a friend called Melody - it just didn't suit her at all.  She couldn't even sing in tune.

Yes, love them. (well, most of them anyway)

[bykerlads]

Lilly, Iris and Rose/ie seem very popular again.
As a child, I remember some older ladies ( sisters I think) called Lilly, Florence, Olive and Ivy - can't help thinking that the latter two didn't have such pretty names as the others.

[ThrelfallYorky]

I nearly got landed with "Heather"! Thanks goodness my father registered my birth, and chose a totally different name! My mother had kept coming up with all sorts of flower names.....I suppose I also escaped Daisy, Petunia, Dahlia, etc. But she did often call me "Petal" - was that revenge?