UK place names that would make good first names

[AutumnIsMyFriend]

I heard the town name Kelso in the radio today and in the context thought they were meaning a person, which got me thinking.

Some of these may already be used, but I thought it might be a fun list. Some of the Scottish ones I’ve suggested are used, albeit rarely

Kendall
Lomond
Kelso
Ailsa
Amberley
Devon
Irvine
Nairn
Kingston
Avon
Barnard
Annan
Seaton
Arran (actually, many Scottish islands are first names too - Iona, Islay, Lewis etc)

There is an estuary in Cornwall called the Carrick Roads and I suggested this would make a lovely name.

The response was less than enthusiastic “it doesn’t look good on the side of the dustbin lorries!”

Bere Regis
Sherborne
Purbeck
Wimborne
Ryme Intrensica
Hatch Beauchamp (Somerset) the rest In Dorset or alternatively

Shitterton
Droop

Scratchy bottom
Piddletrenthide

Definitely see Shitterton as a surname in Bridgeton though 😂

😂 but I have read Irvine Welsh

Ooh Carrick was a strong contender when I had DS.

Wetwang.

Tipton
Redditch
Bromsgrove
Erdington
Witton
Aston
Walsall
Walmley
Handsworth
Harborne

Nope, sorry not sure I can do it!

Keith-Lee

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Oxfordshire has some good place names-could-be-names eg Garford, Lyford, Drayton, Carswell, Henley (I know one), Bladon,

Six Mile Bottom
Pratt's Bottom

I know of a lady called Devon and baby Lincoln
I vaguely knew of a baby york (years ago)
Hundreds of Beverleys over the years

Budleigh Salterton. Maybe with a hyphen.

My very first thought. I live there and it is a dump.

Vange

If ever I write novels I’m going to pick character names from random places on a map.

The Honourable Selkirk Carriden has a ring to it. 😂

I used to know a Faulkland

Little Sodbury

Ooh nice. How about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

Leigh- on- sea

Spelt Leyoncé

Isla
Skye
Harris
Iona
Kyle

Temple
Fraoch, either with or without Eilean
Berwick
Lomond
Nevis
Schiehallion
Braeriach

I always know that people who use the name Paisley have never been there.

@hdbs17
They could be named after Jean Harlow?
Winston Graham (Poldark author) got Demelza from a village in Cornwal

Benson
Chard
Bute

Fingringhoe

Love this thread!

No one has yet mentioned the obvious - Chelsea!

Lots of good London places
Chelsea
Anerley
Sydenham (I actually suggested this to DH for DS and he just snorted)
Richmond
Victoria (it's cheating)
Maybe even Brixton

Outside London:
Kent
Bristol
Sherborne
Corby