Definition of "Primrose"

Primrose

proper noun
1. A habitational surname.
2. (rare, chiefly Britain) A female given name from English.
  Quotations
  Mother said, "How do you like Primrose? It sounds fresh and pretty." Milly-Molly-Mandy thought it sounded a very nice name. - - - And then she decided, as the baby had come in the spring-time, it had better be Primrose.
  1929, Joyce Lankester Brisley, chapter 8, in More of Milly-Molly-Mandy