# Are Any Boys Named After Flowers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397 "2009-04-17T10:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/41 "2009-04-18T16:12:52Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Sweet William is usually _Dianthus barbatus_, a pink that bears its flowers in [groups](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_William). Better yet, in French it’s called _oeillet de poète,_ “poet’s carnation.” ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/42 "2009-04-18T18:38:13Z")
Vincent Gardenia ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/43 "2009-04-18T18:47:00Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > …or Sue Especially Sweet Sue. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/44 "2009-04-18T18:55:14Z")
Petersilie This is the German name for _Parsley_ Q ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/45 "2009-04-18T20:15:09Z")
[Creeping Charlie](http://dnr.wi.gov/invasives/photos/images/medium/CreepingCharlieA.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/46 "2009-04-18T20:28:39Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Rosey is short for Roosevelt…no flowers. Well, “Roosevelt” itself comes from the Dutch for “rose field”, so the flower is still involved, just further back. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/47 "2009-04-18T20:55:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Alfalfa > Rosey Grier > Stephen Root > Wayland Flowers There’s a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT named **Woody Flowers**. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/48 "2009-04-18T22:11:07Z")
There’s also Herbie Flowers, who wrote and played the bass line for Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wild Side”. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/49 "2009-04-19T13:22:06Z")
I knew a man whose first name was Lotus. Unsurprisingly, he went by the name of Bud and said he had to fight every boy in school at least once.He’s gone now but would be in his late 80’s if he were still with us. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/50 "2009-04-19T14:35:55Z")
Saxifrage Russell is a male scientist in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I think that name is hot and is the least girly pretty flower name I have ever heard of. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/51 "2009-04-19T18:31:51Z")
Jack-in-the-pulpit. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/52 "2009-04-19T18:32:55Z")
Peter Yarrow. ---
**Author:** ![Sceadugenga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sceadugenga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sceadugenga)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/53 "2009-04-19T19:16:28Z")
I have a friend from Bosnia named Jasmin. Not sure if the name is related to the flower, though. It might just be a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/54 "2009-04-20T06:03:29Z")
I have a male cousin named Sequoia. (His sister is named Willow, and his daughter is named Bodhi. Why yes, that _is_ the hippie branch of the family, can you tell?) (No, that’s not a flower. But all the other Sequoias I’ve known have been female.) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397/55 "2009-04-20T18:21:13Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Sweet William is usually _Dianthus barbatus_, a pink that bears its flowers in [groups](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_William). I’ve never heard it applied to Vinca. There is also a [Sweet William/Blue Phlox](http://www.kswildflower.org/details.php?flowerID=203). 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-boys-named-after-flowers/493397.md?page=2)