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Harlow

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ihaveaheadache · 19/11/2009 11:04

Will everyone think I've copied Nicole Ritchie if I name my daughter this? I really like it and did so before NR used it.
Thanks.

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crokky · 21/11/2009 18:07

I really don't like it.

What about Hannah insead?

bruffin · 21/11/2009 18:02

but Saffron Waldon is a lovely old market town with character and named after the spice Saffron, Harlow is very different.

busybutterfly · 21/11/2009 17:03

Just wanted to be sure

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ihaveaheadache · 21/11/2009 16:56

Haha, I said it has been scored off the list!

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JANEITEisntErudite · 21/11/2009 16:41

Awful. Sorry.

mumzy · 21/11/2009 16:25

Saffron is nice and its a town in Essex!

busybutterfly · 21/11/2009 13:45

Please don't.

There is Harlow in Essex and then there's the word harlot (pronounced the same) definition "a prostitute who engages in sexual intercourse for money".

Please, please don't.

ImSoNotTelling · 21/11/2009 13:15

Even worse reaction from people like me who know Harlow the place, but had no idea that NR had called her child that.

So I would simply think you had named your child after harlow in essex.

And yes if admire jean harlow then call the child Jean. Makes sense to me anyway.

bruffin · 21/11/2009 13:05

Dreadful , but then I live not far from Harlow, it's okay for shopping once in a while but very dull and dreary.

Vivia · 21/11/2009 12:50

Gorgeous - it's so old hollywood glamour. It's my joint favourite alongside Aster. Go for it, it's beautiful.

harleysmama · 20/11/2009 16:33

Im scottish and have never heard of this town but think the name Harlow is beautiful. reminds me of old hollywood glamour.

phobiccauliflower · 19/11/2009 16:41

Harlow is my nearest town and avoided as much as possible. How about Arlo? As you are not a cockney it won't sound like you are dropping the aitch!

I wonder if Brooklyners have a laugh about the Beckham's choice of name

Juillet · 19/11/2009 16:34

Oh dear. Is there a reason why you like it so much OP? I was born there. It's the least glamourous place on the planet.

Well apart from Sunderland possibly.

pixiestix · 19/11/2009 16:29

I would 100% think that you had copied Nicole, sorry. But on the plus side, I live in the UK and had never heard of the town before this thread!

OrmIrian · 19/11/2009 13:57

Is that with the silent 't' or without?

MaggiePie · 19/11/2009 13:56

yes, probably fewer Jeans than Harlows right now.
I really like Jean with nn Jeannie

MamaLazarou · 19/11/2009 13:45

Yes, people will instantly assume that you have copied Nicole.

skihorse · 19/11/2009 13:16

i) I too thought of the Margot Asquith snipe.

ii) Harlow is not a town is Essex, you're thinking of 'Arlow.

MrsBadger · 19/11/2009 13:10

(NB for all Jean Harlow fans, why not call the baby Jean? Outrageous, eh? )

madoldbat · 19/11/2009 13:09

I'm really sorry but I just think that giving children names that are either unusual spellings of known names or place names and the like just gives other children something to make their life hell for. Plus they'll spend their entire life spelling out their names. I just get visions of fat 60 year olds in track suits and trainers, essex facelifts and fags in hand called Chardonney or the like.

Marioandluigi · 19/11/2009 13:07

Its Alec , not Eric.

I grew up near Harlow, and everytime I see NR daughter I think of high rise flats. Im sorry but its an awful name.

How about Paris?

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ihaveaheadache · 19/11/2009 13:06

Alright, alright. You've made your point! Harlow scored off the list. I still think it is a lovely name but if people are unable to see past all of the above then probably best not used.

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MaggiePie · 19/11/2009 12:59

Kim Bassinger, that is it.

Actually op I have a suggestion for you.

What do you think of Oslo

That incorporates two trends. Place names and names ending in an o sound.

I've always quite liked Arnaud for a boy. I suggested it to my x (him english me irish, ten words of French between us).

seeker · 19/11/2009 12:58

JackieNo - I came specifically to quote the "t is silent, as in Harlow' line and you beat me to it!

MaggiePie · 19/11/2009 12:58

Camden sounds chic and foreign in the US? I used to live in Muswell Hill so Camden was where I had to get off and change if I was unlucky enough to be on the wrong branch of the northern line.

London!! that is terrible. Hope they say it Landan for extra authenticity.

Eric Baldwin and can't think of her name now called their daughter Ireland, which is so bizarre and an unattractive sound, I can't believe they weren't high on drugs when they chose that.

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