To call my twins Kensington and Chelsea even though we can barely afford to rent in Enfield

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Ive always liked the name Chelsea but when I found out we were having twins I thought this would be a genius idea. My family is originally from around there (grandparents and great grandparents lived there) but its way too expensive for me these days.

Dh thinks its a bad idea but I'm really keen on it.

Ken and Chelsea
Ohhh nobody would get that. I mean nobody refers to Kensington as Ken except for everybody saying South Ken.

If you are even vaguely serious why do you want to set your children up for some serious micky taking?

Hammersmith and City?

In the USA when I lived there (in Kentucky but I think it was a country wide thing) UK place names were big news for baby names!
I knew a Brightin (yes spelled that way), Carrington, Karlisle and
Londyn (again spelled like that on purpose!) all girls! They were lovely kids from very nice families.

You were serious? I just assumed this was a joke thread. Think again.

No, just don't do it.

I'm loving zone 1 & 2 though. Genius!!

Robson and Jerome sounds nice too.

Or what about George and Charlotte.

I still think OP is on the wind up.

If OP is serious, OP needs to rethink naming her children something which everyone assumed was a joke.

PLUS Chelsea is a 1970s chav.

I think some people are being very rude about the name Chelsea. I think its lovely and many people are called it.

A chav name? Really? Has it come to this.

Please don't do it OP - ESPECIALLY as you are from the area and still live in London. You might get away with it abroad if people don't know "Kensington and Chelsea" as a common pairing but it's totally a no in your situation.

I once had a student named Lucky.

He failed.

I think op might indeed be on the wind up. She is debating the merits of selling a veterans medals to fund someone's home on another thread.

In any case, those names are better than Penguin.

If you go for Kensington, maybe consider naming the other Barbara instead of Chelsea? Then abbreviate both names and nobody would make silly associations.

Many people are called lots of horrible things, that doesn't mean you should inflict it on a newborn baby.

Try yelling it across the garden with a London accent and see if you sound like a chav mum.

The medal, again?

I think she's for real, nobody would post about a medal funding a mortgage over and over.

Not a new thread on it (again!), thank goodness. But on the silliest/worst advice thread. Apparently the 95% who said the op was awful were actually wrong because 'it's just a piece of metal'.

Why Barbara?

Im growing to really like Kensington as a boys name. I guess I could make it Kingston , but that doesn't feel right to me.

It's like that scouser on obem who wanted to call his daughter:

Eva Toni Anne

I have conections with liverpool, diesn't mean I want to call my children Albert & Doc!

I remember the objections being based on someone else owning the medals.

Maybe the relative link, was a Chelsea pensioner and they hope to win round the medal this way?

Gosh keep talk about anothet thread on that thread.

Why Barbara

No reason.
Barbecue would also work...

Now if it were Kingston and Thames... that might work.

Brooklyn and (twinned with) Tooting .

I can't say
Chelsea without saying it in a Mancunian accent..... Chealser or Chelseh!..... Makes it sound chavy to me.