Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

British place names that would sound good as first names

109 replies

FrancisdeSales · 26/01/2016 23:04

Just musing... What about

Exeter
Cumbria
Lewisham (!!)

Any takers?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman · 26/01/2016 23:47

Six Mile Bottom?

MyFriendsCallMeOh · 26/01/2016 23:46

Hastings (my home town) .... Not so sure about Ardrossan (dh's home town).....

FriendofBill · 26/01/2016 23:37

Lots of surnames originate from places.

FriendofBill · 26/01/2016 23:37

Colindale
Kenley
Bradley Stoke

NormanTheForeman · 26/01/2016 23:36

We have used some place names for our Playmobil people. For example, Sir Ospringe Bapchild, Sir Biddenden Smeeth (these are both knights) and Lady Mersham Wye.

tinofbiscuits · 26/01/2016 23:35

Oban
Dunbar
Stirling
Jedburgh
Elgin
Pembroke
Antrim
Arundel
Basildon
Bromley
Edgware
Grimsby
Halifax
Hatfield
Ilkley
Keighley
Luton
Newlyn
Oakham
Ormskirk
Padstow
Pontefract
Rayleigh
Richmond
Rugeley
Smethwick
Stamford
Swanley
Warwick
Wembley
Wetherby
Wigan

Hedgehogsdontbite · 26/01/2016 23:34

Rochester sounds all Sense-and-sensibilityesque.

Helenluvsrob · 26/01/2016 23:33

Warwick isn't that uncommon.

I've always thought Edith Weston should be a person not a place anyway !

DramaQueen38 · 26/01/2016 23:33

Leatherhead!! Sounds like a GOT character!

I have heard of 2 brothers called Marlow and Henley (prob an urban myth).

Cerseirys · 26/01/2016 23:31

Tooting Broadway?

fuckweasel · 26/01/2016 23:31

Nempnett Thrubwell

NewLife4Me · 26/01/2016 23:31

Worsley, Walkden and Roe Green

All areas that sounded like first names according to one poster on my thread today Grin

CatThiefKeith · 26/01/2016 23:28

Higham
Rochester
Thatcham

slightlyglitterbrained · 26/01/2016 23:28

I'd go for Scottish islands: Skye, Iona, etc

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Scotland

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 26/01/2016 23:27

Husbands bosworth (hussy)
Towcester
Swaffham
Little snoring
Great snoring (twins...)
Port sunlight
Leatherhead
Mold
Utoxeter
Yardley gobion
Looe
Beere (sp?)
Bangor

CatThiefKeith · 26/01/2016 23:26

Thurrock? Seriously?

SonyaAtTheSamovar · 26/01/2016 23:25

Pudsey!

Longdistance · 26/01/2016 23:24

Ely?
Ivor?
Milton
Lewis
Dilton

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 26/01/2016 23:23

London

Hedgehogsdontbite · 26/01/2016 23:22

Luton could work.

hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman · 26/01/2016 23:21

Three Holes?

Fangs4themammaries · 26/01/2016 23:21

Pateley
Linby
Sutton
York (I know one)
Eaton
Harden
Kendal
Keswick
Lincoln

Hedgehogsdontbite · 26/01/2016 23:17

Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

foragogo · 26/01/2016 23:17

Bromley

SaveSomeSpendSome · 26/01/2016 23:16

Devon
Kendal
Preston