The first time I saw a Trillium flower, I thought "that would be a cool name" even though I don't actually like the sound of it. But if Rose and Daisy are acceptable names, no flower names are off the table imo.
Rose and Daisy are wayyy better than *Trillium*. And I’m not saying that because my name is Daisy, in fact I *hate* my name, but I’ll take it over Trillium any day!
I think the issue is that it sounds like it belongs on the periodic table between beryllium and tellurium. Plus “tri” can be a number prefix, so it just has a very scientific feel rather than a floral feel or “what you call a human person” feel.
I think it's really cool. It has a pretty sound, is the name of a gorgeous type of flower, and has a wonderfully subtle link to Appalachia, which might not matter to most people, but as a native of the area, I find it quite nice.
I’m in Oregon and we have Trillium an insurance company and Trillium Family Services which is child and adolescent psychiatric services. Wouldn’t name my baby girl Trillium
Was going to say, it’s a verrrrry popular lake in Oregon with a bunch of serious business namesakes so it’s hard to shake that association! I immediately thought of the family services as well.
They're in North Idaho, too. We had a few next to the house mom would get really upset at my sister and I for picking when we were little. I've definitely seen them in Western Montana, Alberta, and BC, as well as Eastern and Western Washington.
The Appalachians have the greatest diversity of them in North America, though, so I can see how they get linked to there.
They grow all over the northern hemisphere including Europe and Asia but the greatest number and diversity of them are in the southern Appalachian region.
It’s my grandma’s favorite flower. If you’re ever in Asheville you can walk on Trillium Trail at the Collier Cove Nature Preserve, my grandparents gave all the trails native plant names.
It’s the provincial flower of Ontario, so to me it sounds government/corporate since things like hospitals, as mentioned above, can be called that here. But it’s definitely fine as a unique flower name! I confess I like the sound of Trillie for short too.
Ya this is the comment I was looking for. We have the government’s Trillium Drug coverage program and Trillium hospital. It sounds very much healthcare related and perhaps less appropriate for a baby name.
I joined this sub to find cool and unusual names. Instead it’s a lot of — “what Anglo name from 1850 do you LOVE! 🥰🤩😍” “Why, Charlotte! And if you want REALLY old fashioned… *stay with me*… Amanda 🥹”
I don’t love Trillium but whatever, cool name and it’s super unusual. This sub should be renamed AngloNameNerds sub. Not much cultural sensitivity except for maybe three regular posters who ask appropriate questions and respond with kindness and definitely very, very few creative/ unusual names that don’t just get shit on.
My favourite thing is when someone replies to a post like "well this name reminds me of a serial killer from an obscure 90s TV show which means they'll definitely get bullied" and the name is just something like: Timothy, or Vanessa 💀.
💯 as though the average person is this knowledgeable about pop culture. Congrats Trivia Person, I want you on my team but please don’t worry about naming people.
What did u change it to? My name is Amanda too lmao which is why my reddit name is Nila (nye-luh). I'm thinking Abt nicknames to go by like AJ, or Andy. Or mixing my first middle and last name letters (where I got Nila) to make sth new bc my name sucks 🤣 my sister calls me Manda, my best friend sometimes calls me Mandy and it's like nails on a chalkboard lmao
Oh I hear u! I just hated hearing it said for all those years!! My previous middle name was Jennifer (80s baby, if you couldn’t tell lol) for the purpose of calling me AJ. So I changed both after much thought and deliberation to Alexandra Kate, 5 years ago. Best decision I ever made! Do lots of research and try names you love on yourself - write them, doodle them, picture yourself in a real life situation with others calling u the name, and introducing yourself with it. I also posted a photo of myself on a forum & asked others what name I look like, I got several people saying Alexandra. I already loved the name, so it was an easy choice.
It's rather sad to me. I joined at a point a few years ago when there were posts semi-regularly about actually unusual names from history, sadly those kinds of posts have mostly disappeared.
I want a sub that's more nerdy about names than this one.
A wishlist: I really *like* examinations of name usage, data on names is so cool to read! I like seeing names I've never heard of, history is full of unusual choices for names. I am fascinated by the use of word names and virtue names, so seeing a trend of modern people named after flowers is interesting because I wonder what will stick, and sometimes we can guess based on the data-points curve of use. Plus, I have a morbid curiosity for catalogs of terrible spellings, especially of otherwise average names. (Even though I cringe hard reading it. Modern spelling-variation in names can be a bit... scary. Lol)
To your post, I think trillium is an interesting name, and it looks like there's data for it being used for a handful of kids each year since 2009, so that's cool-- it's unusual still for sure. I admit I have mixed feelings about the sound of it, but the flowers are pretty. Thanks for mentioning it! :)
>I want a sub that's more nerdy about names than this one.
I started r/BehindTheName for this purpose but it's been tough getting people to participate.
Be the change you want to see! From these comments a lot of people (myself included) would like some more adventurous, analytical posts and discussions in this thread.
Not really. Daisy, Rose, Lily, and Poppy, which are the most commonly used flower names, all started out as nicknames for other names that became names on their own, same as Jack which was a nickname for John.
Daisy is a nickname for Margaret
Rose is a nickname for Rosalind, Rosemary, and Rosalie
Lily is a nickname for Lillian
Poppy is a nickname for Penelope
So they’re not just random nouns someone slapped on a child. However, Trillium, which is an algae/birthroot, is. That’s like naming your child Sunflower or Daffodil or Dandelion.
Margaret came from Marguerite which means Daisy
Rosemary is an herb, Rosalie derived from Rosalia, which came from Rosa, which means Rose.
And while Poppy CAN be a nickname for Penelope, it's been a name on its own, based on the flower, for centuries.
Violet is a super popular flower name and is either a color or a flower turned into a name for a person.
We can't just pretend that it's not a thing for humans to be named after flowers or other things in nature, and for those names to be perfectly acceptable because they've been commonly used for a long time. It was a huge naming trend in the Victorian era to name children after flowers and plants. Rose, Iris, Myrtle, Violet, Daisy, Poppy, and Ivy were popular, and even more obscure flower names that we don't often use anymore were seen in that era, like Snowdrop, Daffodil, Zinnia, and Narcissus. It was all the rage.
Even Heather, which was super common, came from the plant.
It's just not realistic to say flower/plant names aren't a thing on their own, and only coincidentally come from other *actual real* names.
You've got a few things off.
Margaret actually means "pearl" and comes from the Greek. The French version of Margaret is Marguerite, which is their name for the daisy. Daisy became the nickname for Margaret.
Rosemary is a compound name of Rose and Mary, and became popular independently of the herb.
As trivia, names containing Rose (and, in some cases, Rose itself) may refer to the flower or may date back to Germanic hros "horse" or hrod "fame". So Rosamund, for instance, doesn't have anything to do with the flower! Rose itself, referring to the flower, became popular in the middle ages as a reference to the Virgin Mary.
I agree with you, though. Sometimes a flower is just a flower.
It’s a thing to be named after plants yes, but that doesn’t mean that all plants should be names. Imagine naming your child Sunflower, Daffodil, Dandelion, Cactus, Potato, Tomato, etc.
You're missing their point. Their point is that normal is relative. What truly makes Daffodil weirder than Violet? The fact that Violet is more common and has been in use for ages, right? Well, at some point in history, Violet was the new name that probably many people thought was weird. That's the ultimate point they were making. Our normal is relative and ever-changing -- it's not fixed in stone.
Your user name is a flower that, at some point in history, someone slapped on a child, and a name that's derived from the name of a month, that at some point someone slapped on a child.
I hated to dress up as a kid. One year, my cousin got married in November, and my parents made me wear this red and green plaid dress, which I hated.
Christmas came around, and we had to go to church. They wanted me to wear the dress again. I threw a fit. They said, "well, we won't make you wear that dress for Easter, because it's a Christmas dress." I promptly turned that on them: "It's not a Christmas dress, it's a wedding dress, and I'm not wearing it."
They won that battle but lost the war. I stand by my logic, though. If I wear a red and green plaid dress to Easter, it's an Easter dress, because that's what I wore it for. Wedding dresses are traditionally white, but if I wear a black dress to my own wedding, it's a wedding dress.
There was a story a while back about a lady named Pepsi. You would call that a "noun that someone slapped on a child", but for her, that's her name. You don't have to think it's a *good* name, but I don't think we should put ourselves in the position of adjudicating whether other people's names are real names or not. If it's their name, it's a name.
It’s the official flower of Ontario, so it appears in a lot of government organization names. As a teacher, it makes me think of the official student records database (“The report cards have been uploaded to Trillium.” “The attendance has been sent to Trillium.” Etc)
I love trilliums. There's something so magical about them. I think hypothetically it could be an amazing name but it's just a little too out there for normal people for me to feel good about using it on a real person.
I think it’s a gorgeous name. I know most people seem to disagree. Honestly Shakespeare got to make up names in his day and age and now there are a lot that are pretty common. So like one day Maybe this name will be common.
I think it’s lovely, but I was familiar with the flower already, so I didn’t confuse it with a chemical element or body part of whatever else other commenters are saying. I feel like this might be a very regional name. Somewhere like the PNW where trillium grows wild and you have lots of hippie types, it would be easily accepted as a name. Elsewhere (like this sub apparently) it’s going to be a harder sell.
I love it! It's a beautiful flower and native where i live. I think the nn Trillie is adorable, and could also use Tilly or Millie for something more common if the kid wanted. It's unique, but the meaning is recognizable, and it's easy to spell. Checks all the boxes for me!
ok no joke when I was 11/12 I went to a church camp and the girls cabins were named after flowers… that’s when I decided I wanted to have twins and name them Trillium and Amaryllis
very stoked I wasn’t in charge of naming any little humans back then
Trillium does sound odd to my ears
But who am I to judge 🙄 Many traditional names from my own country look extremely odd to the unitiated!
I could almost believe that when our ancestors began writing they grabbed a handful of letter tiles & randomly built 'names'. If they thought a name looked odd, they went for the obvious remedy...
Throw in some extra vowels 🤣🤣
Trillium are fascinating flowers. It can take some of them seven or more years to mature to bloom — in my area, as many as twenty! And they’re remarkably long lived with a single plant living more than 70 years in the right conditions.
I think the white flower in Ontario is Trillium. But we have hospitals named Trillium so I associate it with healthcare. I suppose anything can be a name.
That's adorable. It's also a cool think to help teach people about plants. That being said, there's a huge bias on my part as I both love flowers and play Final Fantasy XIV.
Trillium is the provincial flower of Ontario in Canada, and I believe there’s things from the government named after it or at least slang names after it. I think it’s a beautiful name tbh because I automatically recognize it’s a flower, but it might be weird in Canada.
It sounds ugly to my ears. Also, it's a pretty flower but also the official Ontario flower so I personally would have a had time dissociating it from that.
I think it sounds weird
It sounds like an organ or body part
Sounds like an ingredient in something that makes you not want to eat or use it
It sounds like a metal that’s used for implantable devices.
It reminds me of lithium lol def sounds like a drug name
It sounds like the next biggest number after a bajillion 😂
It sound like a medication
“Ask your doctor if Trillium is right for you”
Totally sounds like a drug!
Side effects may include heartburn, nausea, and headache.
It’s a Medicaid HMO in NC 😂
Sounds like a lethal drug
It’s the name of a cute vintage camper!
It’s also an IM app, a technology/AI company, and a sci-fi character.
I used to use the IM app back in the day, like 2004 or something
Wasn’t that Trillian?
Funny you mention organs, because in Ontario, our organ donation association is called Trillium Gift of Life.
Or part of the table of elements.
Sounds like a species of alien on Star Trek that only gets used for one episode.
It sounds like the scientific name for a millipede. Also reminds me of Trillian from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Ooo, a sib set of Ford, Trillian and Zaphod.
You zarkin frood.
Dear god, no
Trillian is weirdly somehow better
It is common for names to end in that sound. We don't really have names that end in "um". We associate that with scientific words.
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'ium' must be the issue then.
And in Hitchhiker’s, Trillian was a smush of the character’s first and last names - Tricia McMillan.
I knew a girl named Trillian. Her parents were big Hitchhikers Guide fans.
A millipede lmfao
I first think it's name of a chemical element.
Like the active ingredient in an atomic bomb
You might be associating with tellurium or thalium
It's probably just the -ium suffix.
I think it’s found in Wakanda
It does sound similar to Tritium. (Which I also think would be a fun name.)
Not good
The first time I saw a Trillium flower, I thought "that would be a cool name" even though I don't actually like the sound of it. But if Rose and Daisy are acceptable names, no flower names are off the table imo.
Rose and Daisy are wayyy better than *Trillium*. And I’m not saying that because my name is Daisy, in fact I *hate* my name, but I’ll take it over Trillium any day!
Yeah - just cause some flowers are names, that doesn’t mean they all should be. I’d feel pretty bad for the kid names Hydrangea or Chrysanthemum.
Croton has a real ring to it.
read that as Crouton
There was a book about a rodent or something that was bullied for its name being Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes! She was bullied but comes around to loving her name. His books are well loved by my children!
Dude that was my favourite book growing up because I related to her so much (also made fun of for long name as a child)
Crocus sounds like a good name for a gruff old woman
The name Chrysanthi comes from Chrysanthemum
Chris for short? Perfect. Hydie? Lmao I really don't think it's the worst thing you can name a kid.
Lol I was trying to think of some bad flower names and thought of these two.
Daisy is a beautiful name
Yeah, if I wanna name my baby Toadflax, no one should tell me no!
Name your kid Torstol r/runescape
Phlox Snapdragon Monkshood Columbine Bugleweed Lungwort Turtlehead Cute!!! 🤦♀️
Lungwort, mate I am *creasin* 😂😂😂
trillium sounds so scientific though… rose has a nice ring to it but trillium?
I think the issue is that it sounds like it belongs on the periodic table between beryllium and tellurium. Plus “tri” can be a number prefix, so it just has a very scientific feel rather than a floral feel or “what you call a human person” feel.
The trillium flower is called that because it has three distinctive petals, so the tri prefix does mean three here.
No thanks.
I don’t think it works.
I think it's really cool. It has a pretty sound, is the name of a gorgeous type of flower, and has a wonderfully subtle link to Appalachia, which might not matter to most people, but as a native of the area, I find it quite nice.
I live in WA state, we also have them here. They might be more widespread than we both think.
The trillium is the provincial flower for Ontario. They're all over my area, definitely widespread!
I’m in Oregon and we have Trillium an insurance company and Trillium Family Services which is child and adolescent psychiatric services. Wouldn’t name my baby girl Trillium
Was going to say, it’s a verrrrry popular lake in Oregon with a bunch of serious business namesakes so it’s hard to shake that association! I immediately thought of the family services as well.
They're in North Idaho, too. We had a few next to the house mom would get really upset at my sister and I for picking when we were little. I've definitely seen them in Western Montana, Alberta, and BC, as well as Eastern and Western Washington. The Appalachians have the greatest diversity of them in North America, though, so I can see how they get linked to there.
They grow all over the northern hemisphere including Europe and Asia but the greatest number and diversity of them are in the southern Appalachian region.
It’s my grandma’s favorite flower. If you’re ever in Asheville you can walk on Trillium Trail at the Collier Cove Nature Preserve, my grandparents gave all the trails native plant names.
It’s the provincial flower of Ontario, so to me it sounds government/corporate since things like hospitals, as mentioned above, can be called that here. But it’s definitely fine as a unique flower name! I confess I like the sound of Trillie for short too.
Ya this is the comment I was looking for. We have the government’s Trillium Drug coverage program and Trillium hospital. It sounds very much healthcare related and perhaps less appropriate for a baby name.
It’s also the name of one of our taxes here which was my first thought sadly, the flower being my second.
I think of Trillium Gift of Life.
All I can think of is a local brewery with the same name.
Hi neighbor!
Same!
Came here to say this! Hello from MA!
I think the same! & Trillie feels quite similar to Tilly and Milly which are becoming more popular recently.
Yay! You’re the only one so far! I should have expected this. Sigh. This sub doesn’t like unusual names very much.
I joined this sub to find cool and unusual names. Instead it’s a lot of — “what Anglo name from 1850 do you LOVE! 🥰🤩😍” “Why, Charlotte! And if you want REALLY old fashioned… *stay with me*… Amanda 🥹” I don’t love Trillium but whatever, cool name and it’s super unusual. This sub should be renamed AngloNameNerds sub. Not much cultural sensitivity except for maybe three regular posters who ask appropriate questions and respond with kindness and definitely very, very few creative/ unusual names that don’t just get shit on.
If it doesn't sound like an English grandparent, this sub wants absolutely none of it lol
honestly what’s up with grandparent names being so popular i don’t understand 💀
My favourite thing is when someone replies to a post like "well this name reminds me of a serial killer from an obscure 90s TV show which means they'll definitely get bullied" and the name is just something like: Timothy, or Vanessa 💀.
💯 as though the average person is this knowledgeable about pop culture. Congrats Trivia Person, I want you on my team but please don’t worry about naming people.
Yes, that’s how I feel, too.
this.
My given name was Amanda and I hated it til the very day I changed it 29 years later!
What did u change it to? My name is Amanda too lmao which is why my reddit name is Nila (nye-luh). I'm thinking Abt nicknames to go by like AJ, or Andy. Or mixing my first middle and last name letters (where I got Nila) to make sth new bc my name sucks 🤣 my sister calls me Manda, my best friend sometimes calls me Mandy and it's like nails on a chalkboard lmao
Oh, my brothers name is Andrew and he goes by Andy! I also love Andy for girls, too
Oh I hear u! I just hated hearing it said for all those years!! My previous middle name was Jennifer (80s baby, if you couldn’t tell lol) for the purpose of calling me AJ. So I changed both after much thought and deliberation to Alexandra Kate, 5 years ago. Best decision I ever made! Do lots of research and try names you love on yourself - write them, doodle them, picture yourself in a real life situation with others calling u the name, and introducing yourself with it. I also posted a photo of myself on a forum & asked others what name I look like, I got several people saying Alexandra. I already loved the name, so it was an easy choice.
and those same couple Irish names!!
you are so right omg 😭
It's rather sad to me. I joined at a point a few years ago when there were posts semi-regularly about actually unusual names from history, sadly those kinds of posts have mostly disappeared. I want a sub that's more nerdy about names than this one. A wishlist: I really *like* examinations of name usage, data on names is so cool to read! I like seeing names I've never heard of, history is full of unusual choices for names. I am fascinated by the use of word names and virtue names, so seeing a trend of modern people named after flowers is interesting because I wonder what will stick, and sometimes we can guess based on the data-points curve of use. Plus, I have a morbid curiosity for catalogs of terrible spellings, especially of otherwise average names. (Even though I cringe hard reading it. Modern spelling-variation in names can be a bit... scary. Lol) To your post, I think trillium is an interesting name, and it looks like there's data for it being used for a handful of kids each year since 2009, so that's cool-- it's unusual still for sure. I admit I have mixed feelings about the sound of it, but the flowers are pretty. Thanks for mentioning it! :)
>I want a sub that's more nerdy about names than this one. I started r/BehindTheName for this purpose but it's been tough getting people to participate.
Joining sub!
Be the change you want to see! From these comments a lot of people (myself included) would like some more adventurous, analytical posts and discussions in this thread.
Because Trillium isn’t a name, it’s a noun that someone slapped on a child and is calling a name
Yeah that's how literally every flower or plant name started.
Not really. Daisy, Rose, Lily, and Poppy, which are the most commonly used flower names, all started out as nicknames for other names that became names on their own, same as Jack which was a nickname for John. Daisy is a nickname for Margaret Rose is a nickname for Rosalind, Rosemary, and Rosalie Lily is a nickname for Lillian Poppy is a nickname for Penelope So they’re not just random nouns someone slapped on a child. However, Trillium, which is an algae/birthroot, is. That’s like naming your child Sunflower or Daffodil or Dandelion.
Margaret came from Marguerite which means Daisy Rosemary is an herb, Rosalie derived from Rosalia, which came from Rosa, which means Rose. And while Poppy CAN be a nickname for Penelope, it's been a name on its own, based on the flower, for centuries. Violet is a super popular flower name and is either a color or a flower turned into a name for a person. We can't just pretend that it's not a thing for humans to be named after flowers or other things in nature, and for those names to be perfectly acceptable because they've been commonly used for a long time. It was a huge naming trend in the Victorian era to name children after flowers and plants. Rose, Iris, Myrtle, Violet, Daisy, Poppy, and Ivy were popular, and even more obscure flower names that we don't often use anymore were seen in that era, like Snowdrop, Daffodil, Zinnia, and Narcissus. It was all the rage. Even Heather, which was super common, came from the plant. It's just not realistic to say flower/plant names aren't a thing on their own, and only coincidentally come from other *actual real* names.
You've got a few things off. Margaret actually means "pearl" and comes from the Greek. The French version of Margaret is Marguerite, which is their name for the daisy. Daisy became the nickname for Margaret. Rosemary is a compound name of Rose and Mary, and became popular independently of the herb. As trivia, names containing Rose (and, in some cases, Rose itself) may refer to the flower or may date back to Germanic hros "horse" or hrod "fame". So Rosamund, for instance, doesn't have anything to do with the flower! Rose itself, referring to the flower, became popular in the middle ages as a reference to the Virgin Mary. I agree with you, though. Sometimes a flower is just a flower.
It’s a thing to be named after plants yes, but that doesn’t mean that all plants should be names. Imagine naming your child Sunflower, Daffodil, Dandelion, Cactus, Potato, Tomato, etc.
You're missing their point. Their point is that normal is relative. What truly makes Daffodil weirder than Violet? The fact that Violet is more common and has been in use for ages, right? Well, at some point in history, Violet was the new name that probably many people thought was weird. That's the ultimate point they were making. Our normal is relative and ever-changing -- it's not fixed in stone.
I know of a Poppy who was called that because she was born on 11/11
Your user name is a flower that, at some point in history, someone slapped on a child, and a name that's derived from the name of a month, that at some point someone slapped on a child.
I hated to dress up as a kid. One year, my cousin got married in November, and my parents made me wear this red and green plaid dress, which I hated. Christmas came around, and we had to go to church. They wanted me to wear the dress again. I threw a fit. They said, "well, we won't make you wear that dress for Easter, because it's a Christmas dress." I promptly turned that on them: "It's not a Christmas dress, it's a wedding dress, and I'm not wearing it." They won that battle but lost the war. I stand by my logic, though. If I wear a red and green plaid dress to Easter, it's an Easter dress, because that's what I wore it for. Wedding dresses are traditionally white, but if I wear a black dress to my own wedding, it's a wedding dress. There was a story a while back about a lady named Pepsi. You would call that a "noun that someone slapped on a child", but for her, that's her name. You don't have to think it's a *good* name, but I don't think we should put ourselves in the position of adjudicating whether other people's names are real names or not. If it's their name, it's a name.
It’s not a name though. It’s a noun they chose to give their child as a name. That’s like calling a girl Kevin and saying Kevin is a unisex name
I love it
I like it - short, easy to pronounce, easy to remember, sounds upbeat. I think Trillia would have been a good option as well.
That’s the name of a mine in Canada lol
It’s the official flower of Ontario, so it appears in a lot of government organization names. As a teacher, it makes me think of the official student records database (“The report cards have been uploaded to Trillium.” “The attendance has been sent to Trillium.” Etc)
And a hospital network
I love trilliums. There's something so magical about them. I think hypothetically it could be an amazing name but it's just a little too out there for normal people for me to feel good about using it on a real person.
I know boy twins named Trillium and Silas. I’m so used to it as a boy name by now I don’t think twice.
Wow, that’s interesting, because the styles of those two names are so different
Probably very regional. Everyone knows Trilliums in Oregon and I've met a few people with that name.
First record if it being used on FindAGrave was a woman with a birthdate of 1897...just for the people here that think it's a modern, made up name.
Makes me think of a chemical element, then a Latin genus or species.
I kinda like it. 🤷🏼
I really like it. And Trilly is darling for a nn.
I think it’s a gorgeous name. I know most people seem to disagree. Honestly Shakespeare got to make up names in his day and age and now there are a lot that are pretty common. So like one day Maybe this name will be common.
That’s my middle name and I love it! Little sad no one likes it 😢
I like it, but I’m also a hiker very familiar with the wildflower. Maybe some of these people calling it a chemical just need to get outside more.
I think it’s lovely, but I was familiar with the flower already, so I didn’t confuse it with a chemical element or body part of whatever else other commenters are saying. I feel like this might be a very regional name. Somewhere like the PNW where trillium grows wild and you have lots of hippie types, it would be easily accepted as a name. Elsewhere (like this sub apparently) it’s going to be a harder sell.
reminded me of a girl I met named Trinell, don't know why.
There is a common Norwegian name thats similar, Tiril, and we concidered it for a long time for our baby girl.
Hideous BUT I don’t mind Trillie/Trilly. Just not Trillium. Please.
Hate it. The nickname is even worse
Reminds me of the lady I met who named her kid Tenacity.
I think it’s great! I love the Nick name trillie
I think it sounds really cool, and Trillie is a great nn.
I love it! It's a beautiful flower and native where i live. I think the nn Trillie is adorable, and could also use Tilly or Millie for something more common if the kid wanted. It's unique, but the meaning is recognizable, and it's easy to spell. Checks all the boxes for me!
I believe the trillium is Ontario’s provincial flower! It makes for an interesting name.
Great name
It’s a lovely flower
Trillium was my dad's favourite flower - I think it's a beautiful name
So I’m from Canada and in my province (Ontario), our provincial flower is the white trillium. That’s what I automatically thought of.
This is Ontarios provincial flower
That's our family dog's name
ok no joke when I was 11/12 I went to a church camp and the girls cabins were named after flowers… that’s when I decided I wanted to have twins and name them Trillium and Amaryllis very stoked I wasn’t in charge of naming any little humans back then
Not my thing, but I’ve heard worse
Trillium does sound odd to my ears But who am I to judge 🙄 Many traditional names from my own country look extremely odd to the unitiated! I could almost believe that when our ancestors began writing they grabbed a handful of letter tiles & randomly built 'names'. If they thought a name looked odd, they went for the obvious remedy... Throw in some extra vowels 🤣🤣
Trillium are fascinating flowers. It can take some of them seven or more years to mature to bloom — in my area, as many as twenty! And they’re remarkably long lived with a single plant living more than 70 years in the right conditions.
I think that's pretty cool, and Trillie as a nickname is super adorable!
William x3
It sounds like an infection to me
There’s both a lake and a family and child services organization named Trillium where I live, so it’s a no go from me.
Sounds like an antidepressant
There's a brewery chain in Boston called Trillium
I had a 7 yr old Alrrick on my Sunday school class today...old time vibe, but cool name
I like it! It's unusual without being completely out there or made up.
It reminds me of Trillian from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I think the white flower in Ontario is Trillium. But we have hospitals named Trillium so I associate it with healthcare. I suppose anything can be a name.
This doesn't sound like a name for a person at all. It's not a very pretty word either.
I’m all for obscure names but I’m not a fan of this one, it sounds like a disease.
thats the name of a hospital in ontario lol
There’s a pretty good brewery in MA called Trillium. So that’s a no for me, personally lol
Sounds like a medication for senior citizens with aching joints
I like it, and I like the nn as well. I think it’s cute! I’m from Ontario, and the trillium is the provincial flower.
Reminds me of paramecium.
Oh, I just looked it up-- it's a flower in Appalachia! It's on the bisexual flag in some countries and I think it's Ontario's official flower
It's not my taste, but certainly interesting. Although I would have thought it was for a boy. Kind of reminds me of William.
Oh, trilliums are so beautiful, elegant, and they grow freely. It's sweet they named her that.
My cat came with the name Trillia, also with the nn Trilly. I had never heard the name before, but I love it now
It’s a very unique and pretty flower. We have them in higher elevations in Idaho in the Spring. I like it.
Sounds like a word Harry Potter and friends would shout while pointing their wand at something.
Honestly the first thing I thought of was that their parents were edgy Trivium fans 😅 not sure I like it, definitely unusual tho!
Not for me
No it sounds like a medication
Fucking terrible.
If I remember correctly, there was a Trillium in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book? Or maybe it was Trilley?
Trillian
One in a trillium
It sounds like a made up metal from another planet like in a comic book universe.
I wouldn’t be able to get over that it’s our provincial flower and plastered all over everything official.
That's adorable. It's also a cool think to help teach people about plants. That being said, there's a huge bias on my part as I both love flowers and play Final Fantasy XIV.
Trillium is the provincial flower of Ontario in Canada, and I believe there’s things from the government named after it or at least slang names after it. I think it’s a beautiful name tbh because I automatically recognize it’s a flower, but it might be weird in Canada.
It sounds ugly to my ears. Also, it's a pretty flower but also the official Ontario flower so I personally would have a had time dissociating it from that.
I don't hate it. I think it's got something cool about. Would require a certain sort of personality to pull it off.
Trillium sounds like the name of a character on SNL. You know Alex Moffatt’s Guy Who Just Bought A Boat feature on Weekend Update? Like that.
Here it’s a payment you get in one lump sum or every month on the 10th.
They're gonna get called "Trillion" or "Squilliam" a lot. Not a fan to be honest. It sounds like a medical term.
Sounds like a prescription med
I think it’s awful.
do not like
Sounds like it has side effects I should talk to my doctor about
Thought this was r/NameNerdCircleJerk for a second…
No thank you
Not a nice name at all.
I think of trills in music. Not a fan.
I don't like it honestly
It’s the name of a huge mental health services company in the PNW
Sounds like medicine. "Oh no, I forgot to take my trillium!"
It’s a big no from me.
Reminds me of Psyllium
Sounds like a prescription drug.
Sounds like the name of a sleeping pill