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Thoughts on Flinders for a boys name?

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LarkmeadLass · 08/02/2025 20:20

Any thoughts on Flinders for a boys first name?

It's an old family surname I've come across but I think it would be a unique, lovely name for my son.

Please let me know if this is too 'out there'?!

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QuirkyOpal · 08/02/2025 20:41

Findus Fish Fingers

DiegoVanDamme · 08/02/2025 20:41

Only if you don't like him

HugoYorway · 08/02/2025 20:41

Use it as a middle name

Chuchoter · 08/02/2025 20:40

Flinders. No. Bloody awful.

Needspaceforlego · 08/02/2025 20:40

It will get miss heard as Flanders. Then shortened to Flyn.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 08/02/2025 20:40

BleeBlahBlue · 08/02/2025 20:21

Ned Flanders

My instant reaction

Rummly · 08/02/2025 20:38

fibag29 · 08/02/2025 20:31

Flinders Petrie, famous Egyptologist.
Go with the name if you like it and sod the naysayers

His first name was William.

KilkennyCats · 08/02/2025 20:37

misogynyisbigotry · 08/02/2025 20:36

Oh my god, no - imagine a woman naming a baby!! What is our culture coming to? 😂

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What does this mean? It sounds quite odd.

SecondMrsTanqueray · 08/02/2025 20:37

😂😂

misogynyisbigotry · 08/02/2025 20:36

pennydroppedtoday · 08/02/2025 20:26

So true

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Oh my god, no - imagine a woman naming a baby!! What is our culture coming to? 😂

AlloftheTime · 08/02/2025 20:35

Please don’t

ReginaMolesworthy · 08/02/2025 20:34

DonttouchthatLarry · 08/02/2025 20:24

Little Polly Flinders
Sat among the cinders
Warming her pretty little toes!
Her mother came and caught her,
And whipped her little daughter,
For spoiling her nice new clothes.

That's what came straight into my mind - so it's a 'No' from me !

Purplecatshopaholic · 08/02/2025 20:33

I’d use Flynn, that’s nice.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 08/02/2025 20:32

fibag29 · 08/02/2025 20:31

Flinders Petrie, famous Egyptologist.
Go with the name if you like it and sod the naysayers

Very famous 😂

whiteroseredrose · 08/02/2025 20:31

Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders warming her pretty little toes.

Her father came and caught her and whipped his little daughter for spoiling her pretty new clothes.

fibag29 · 08/02/2025 20:31

Flinders Petrie, famous Egyptologist.
Go with the name if you like it and sod the naysayers

MolkosTeenageAngst · 08/02/2025 20:31

Hens love roosters,
Geese love ginders,
Everyone else loves
Baby Flinders.

FloofyKat · 08/02/2025 20:30

Poor kid to be saddled with a name from a nursery rhyme - and a girl’s name, at that!

MermaidEyes · 08/02/2025 20:30

BleeBlahBlue · 08/02/2025 20:21

Ned Flanders

My first thought 😂

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 08/02/2025 20:29

Okily dokily neighbourino!

Onlyvisiting · 08/02/2025 20:29

Sorry, not good.

NanaPurple · 08/02/2025 20:28

Sorry, my first thought was Cinderella or Cinders, he would be called that at school. Not a great choice in my opinion.

pimplebum · 08/02/2025 20:28

Sounds like a disease
mil flinders has played up again !

it’s a name you have just found out about so not sentimental

if you are ok with the raised eyebrows and a slow …. Ok.. that’s different …every time then go for it

shoopshoopdedoo · 08/02/2025 20:28

Flinders?!? No, I don’t think you should do that.

Asterales · 08/02/2025 20:28

Agree with pp who said it invokes Ned Flanders. The person himself, and all the associated characteristics.