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It works and I like it! In the TV series Dexter, Rita's daughter is named Aster.

I like Aster, but to me it's more of a masculine name.

I love it! I heard in a webseries a while back and it has been a love ever since.

Actually, I thought of it as a surname (so cross referenced John Jacob Astor and the Titanic) before the flower came to mind. The first syllable feels even more the focus in this than it does in Astrid for me so, while I could acknowledge it as a nature name theoretically, it does not strike me as usable on a practical level, in the sense that I would not enjoy finding myself the center of attention on the playground simply because my name was the easiest with which to draw the same rude, boring taunt every school year. I have the same feeling about Dorcas.

This message was edited 3/21/2013, 8:10 PM

I probably would have thought it was masculine. Like Asher. But I guess it's like Astrid and Esther put together. Huh. I think I'd like it better on a boy, but I don't hate the sound of it. I worry about As- names being shorted it a**. Maybe that's lame. But I always think of that with Aspen too.

It's nice, but it says "horse" to me more than "person".

I love it, and I definitely think it works as a name. It is like a mixture of Astrid and Esther, and it makes me think of bright sunny flowers. Arnica, Verbena, and Madrona are some other unusual plant names that I love. I always go back and forth between preferring Verbena and preferring Vervain.

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