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Dublin as a name?

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user1495211362 · 19/05/2017 17:41

Thoughts? Would you think boy or girl?

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MikeUniformMike · 20/05/2017 13:50

Should have read the fred. Bell has a certain ring to it too. Maybe you'll find some ideas here:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/whats-in-a-name-britains-rudest-places-831422.html

MikeUniformMike · 20/05/2017 13:48

Dublin means black pool, so how about Blackpool instead.
Grimsby has a certain ring to I though.

MadreRumba · 20/05/2017 10:34

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 20/05/2017 10:27

I wouldn't use it, but I wouldn't find it all that weird as a boy's name provided they didn't live in Ireland.

Someone up-thread (sarcastically I think) suggested Bray, which I think is a great boy's name and I've fairly sure is used in the US.

Chickenagain · 20/05/2017 10:19

Waitrose
Lidl
Aldi
Sainsbury
Tesco
Asda
Netto
Ikea (nice ring to it)
Uber
Chiltern (as in Firehouse, obvs)
Maccie
Southern
Pizza

ThreeForAPound · 20/05/2017 09:54

Grin @ the girls called Keighley and Aberdeen.

Dublin is alright as far as place names go. Better than Brooklyn. Definitely one for a one-sixteenth-Irish- American, though Grin.

I know a man called London.

Peckham for a boy, Streatham for a girl, I say.

CricketRuntAndRashers · 20/05/2017 09:54

Ireland kind of works as a name, I guess?

Hastalapasta · 20/05/2017 09:53

How about Black Pool in another language? Scots is Amar Dubh, Welsh is Pwll Du, Danish is Sort Pool..... love google translate Grin

TroysMammy · 20/05/2017 09:51

I've heard of a lady called Venice. She must be in her 70's.

Hastalapasta · 20/05/2017 09:48

Lovely welcoming rock there Irliml

lrliml · 20/05/2017 09:05

Oh dear

Dublin as a name?
ZeldaWasMyGransName · 20/05/2017 09:05

Brooklyn probably only works because we've got used to it from Brooklyn Beckham, IIR it was out there when they used it... maybe this will go the same way?

Also Florence and Victoria are names named after places / separately to people. Not people named after places.

BendydickCuminsnatch · 20/05/2017 08:43

Victoria?
Adelaide?
Florence?
Siena?

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Whereisthecake · 20/05/2017 08:28

@Frillyhorseyknickers that made me laugh a lot 😂

SnickersWasAHorse · 20/05/2017 08:15

I know children called Paris, Chelsea, London, Florence, Brooklyn, Milan and Sienna. None of them are names I would personally choose but they all kind of work as names.
Dublin doesn't. I don't know why but it just doesn't have the right sound.

Frillyhorseyknickers · 20/05/2017 08:12

I have a horse called Dublin. It is not a human name, get a grip.

GabbyGabriella · 20/05/2017 08:07

Unlike any of the other people who have posted on here so negatively, I have actually met a boy called Dublin. At first I thought it was unusual and a little strange, admittedly. However, as with so many names, one became accustomed. The sound is not unpleasant for a boy and it is no worse IMO than the surname-as-first-name fashion for Spencer, Mason, Harrison etc.

tabbymog · 20/05/2017 04:03

Dublin sounds odd to me, and not in a good way.

The GD of a friend of mine is called Vienna, which I think is lovely.

Mumoftheark · 20/05/2017 03:31

I've got to agree with everyone else Dublin isn't a name for a human. Maybe a fish, but not a baby.

Some place names work. I think Florence is a beautiful girls name.
Not keen on Paris or Chelsea but I guess they have become proper names.
I just can't imagine Dublin, maybe you are just ahead of the times. Don't think your child will thank you for it. Use it as a middle name if you must

HildaOg · 19/05/2017 23:37

It sounds silly.

carrotcakecupcake · 19/05/2017 23:09

I'd say even if you are American (where place names like Devon and Paris are pretty standard) Dublin is still a bit out there and odd sounding. But you never know - it could catch on!

Plunkette · 19/05/2017 23:09

There's a Paisley in the school
my DC go to (we're in the US). It always makes me smile. I can only assume they haven't been.

29Palms · 19/05/2017 23:00

What about Knock?

User06383 · 19/05/2017 21:36

Won't it be really awkward for form filling... as the name is always Dublin.

buttercup54321 · 19/05/2017 21:28

Dublin. Double Chin.

Plenty more towns and cities to chose from.
OR
Satnav
Tomtom
Map
Atlas
Direction
Way
Location.

Stupid idea for a name, Pity the poor kid.

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