Vienna

I love Vienna the city and I have always thought it would make quite a nice girls' name. After all children are called after lots of other cities - I know an Austin, a Savannah, two Parises and plenty of Chelseas (OK, that's not a whole city, but it's still a place name). Not to mention countries as names - India, Chad, Jordan...

Yes, there would be people who would mention the song but I don't think that has to be a deal-breaker. If you try hard enough you can probably think of a song for any name - and that's quite a nice song anyway. My name certainly isn't strongly associated with a song, but one of my teachers at my first school always used to sing a song that mentioned it that I'd never even heard of (my mum confirmed it was a real song, but a rather old one). It would be people of her parents' generation anyway, not her own friends.

Cecilia is another one...

'Oh Ceciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliaaaa you're breakin' my heart.......'

I do the same with the name Ruby. 'Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Rubeee'

I'm another irritating sort who always wants to warble 'OOOOHHHHHHH VIENNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' whenever I see mention of the city.

That would get punchably annoying for poor little Vienna very quickly.

Yesterday on the Popmaster quiz on Radio 2, one question was 'Which European city features in the title of a number 2 hit by Ultravox?' Contestant immediately answered 'Vienna' and I'd have said they were averagely good (apologies if you're on here, contestant!) So it is reasonably common knowledge.

Loli it was indeed Joe Dolce

Famously kept off no.1 by Shut up off your face or some such awful monstrosity. As I go to hide my 80's face in shame!!

Vienna sounds all right in English but the original German name Wien is awful.

It's lovely. I met a Vienna once and she really liked her name. Also lovely are Venice and Venetia.

It's also a suburb southwest of Washington DC.

Tom Jones and Midge Ure are competing in my head. It's unpleasant.

I wouldn't OP.

I don't get the problem so many seem to have with using place names for children, but then I'm Scottish and half our names started off as place names. I guess it takes time for some names to fall into common usage the way that place/people names like Gordon, Keith or Leslie did.

But they all started somewhere and Vienna is as good as any, so I'd say go for it, OP.

I don't hate it, but I am not 100% sold on it being a legitimate name.

It seriously just means sausages to me, but I accept that not everyone makes that connection. For me though, I struggle to say the word without following it with 'and chips'.

It's not just Ultravox - there are shedloads of waltzes with Vienna in the name (Goodnight Vienna, Vienna Life, Vienna Ladies, Vienna Bonbons from a quick glance at my iPod). All very pretty though.

I don't know, I wouldn't think to use it myself, but it is quite nice.

In hospital with DS1, I had the bed next to a lady who had just given birth to her third daughter.

She told me all her daughters' names were a place and a song; Vienna by Ultravox, Georgia by Michael Bolton and Chelsea, by the Chelsea Football team . I did snigger a little bit.

I like it.
I went to school with Verona. No idea if she was conceived there.

People call their kids India, Asia, Paris, Georgia, Atlanta etc so why not Vienna? I personally don't like it as a persons name, to me it would be like calling a child Peterborough or York. But it's personal choice.

Rigby's cat in Rising Damp, although that is a long time ago now.

I like it. I have come across a few in the last few years (work in a school) and think it is actually very pretty. And much nicer than the several Chelseas, couple of Paris' and an Indiana that I have known (the name is nicer, the children were actually lovely).

Somebody once commented that whilst dc1's name was 'ok' for a baby, it would dreadful for an adult. Well, dc1 is now an adult, loves the name and finds it somewhat amusing that several contemporaries use the same name as it is actually a diminutive of a more formal name. DC1 is the only one in that group who has that version on the birth certificate. So much for it being a dreadful name for an adult.

OP, if you and DH like the name, that is all that matters.

I know of a baby Vienna. Most people were a bit when she was first named. Personally I think it's quite pretty but not something I would choose to name a baby.

You want to name your baby:
A) After a city
B) after a city that you've never even been to.

TACKY!

It means nothing to me... Oh, Vienna!

You've never heard the song. Vienna by Ultravox.
It was a massive hit in about 1891.

Yep, sang the Ultravox song when I read the thread title

It"s a beautiful name but I think you would need to have a connection to City to be worthy of using the name. I don't necessarily mean from there but
It could be where you convinced
.Where you got engaged
Where you got married or had your Honeymoon.
Without any connections. Then IMO. It is just trying too hard. But I am stranger on the Internet. My opinion matters not one jot