Berlin for a girls name!?

[eeyore2911]

We are expecting twin girls in July and are obviously already stressing about names OH likes Berlin for one but I'm not so sure... Is it a proper name? Is it a bit out there? Will it grow on me? We were thinking middle name Beatrix so I suppose she could use that....

[campion]

What's he got in mind for the other one? Hamburg? Dortmund?

It wouldn't be fair to give just one an...err...unusual name

[DebbieOfMaddox]

If you don't even like it in your current hormone-addled state (one where perfectly intelligent women convince themselves that all sorts of things are good names for babies), it's probably fair to say that it isn't going to grow on you later.

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Berlin and Bremen.
Hamburg and Hannover.
Dusseldorf and Dresden.
Ludwighafen and Leipzig.

[LongWayRound]

I wouldn't. Much as I like Berlin (the city), it doesn't have any associations that make it appealing as a name. Brandenburg Gate? Berlin Wall? At least Paris conveys elegance.

Also, "A Berlin (or Berline) carriage was a type of covered, fast and light, four-wheeled, travelling carriage with two interior seats and a separate hooded rear seat for a footman, detached from the body. It had a distinctive two-perch running gear and thoroughbrace suspension, with the body hung high between the perches by shafts to leather braces" (wikipedia) and a "berline" in French means a saloon car... Again, nothing very appealing there.

[Floggingmolly]

We were thinking middle name Beatrix so I suppose she could use that?
Why would you give your child a name that's so ridiculous you're anticipating her not wanting to actually use it????

[ZenNudist]

Takes my breath away

[ZenNudist]

Love Beatrice and prefer that spelling to the Beatrix potter spelling. But a lovely name anyway.

[LongWayRound]

Berlin Beatrix? ... and her brother, Burlington Bertie.

[Dreya]

Instead of Berlin what about Belinda? Beatrix is in a different league to Berlin imo. Beatrix is a lovely name. Choose Beatrix!

[vichill]

there is a very sexy female character called Berlin in the film the secret life if David Gale. she carries it off but I'm not sure a baby would.

[ThatBloodyWoman]

Cool.

Love it !

[coffeeinbed]

Or you can go for East and West.

[LittleBearPad]

coffee

[ShadowFall]

I really don't like Berlin as a child's name.

Beatrix is much nicer.

[lljkk]

well... you could do worse

[OddBoots]

I like the idea of it but it might sound a bit like Merlin said by someone with a cold.

[JeanSeberg]

Checkpoint Charlie for the brother.

[lljkk]

BRANDENberg, JeanSeberg, deffo.

[JeanSeberg]

I see what you did there lljkk .

[ImperialBlether]

Look, just give your OH a book of names and tell him if it's not in there, she isn't going to be called it.

Then wait for him to suggest "Etymology."

[SauvignonBlanche]

I love Berlin, but as a girl's name? No!

[mathanxiety]

Berlin Beatrix sounds like a WW2 bomber.

[MrsBennetsEldest]

Belen sounds too close to bellend.
Berlin would result in a lifetime of 'eh' and ' what were her parents thinking of'

[AphraBane]

Berlin is full of shit. Literally. I've lived here for over twenty years and I love the place, but there is a somewhat laissez-faire attitude to dog poo on the streets. Is that really the right connotation?

Ironically, Germans are awfully strict about what you can name babies and wouldn't let you call your child that in Germany. Thank goodness. I really don't understand this trend for unusual names just for the sake of it .

[coffeeinbed]

Right.
I spent a long time overthinking about it, with a glass of wine.

There is a lovely perfume called Fille De Berlin and it smells of roses.
Berlin has a lot of Linden trees, which smell all lovely as well.

So, if I were to apply this to baby names and would come to Linden and Rose.