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....

Sorry but it's another no from me too. You might get away with it if you are famous or really rich with a double barrelled surname but otherwise it sound too harsh and trying to hard.

Berlin Beatrix?oh that's dreadful
Unless you're in some media luvvie job with the other out there names parents
But If you are going for place names with b
Blantyre pronounced blan-tir
Bellshil
Bothwell
Bolton
Brummie

You beat me to it wrt Linden Coffeeinbed.

I like Linden and Rose and I like your lateral thinking coffee.

Definitely 'out there' but a lovely place. I'd only go for it if
a) you have very special personal associations with the city and
b) you have an equally out there non-name funky name for her sister

It wouldn't be fair to have a Berlin and an Imogen for example.

Agree, excellent as a middle name though.

If you already anticipate she'll not like Berlin,and Beatrix is back up name don't do it

Just....no.

I blame the

Great city, one of the best! Dreadful name. Don't do it. She'll HATE it. You'll kill her confidence with a name that will have meaning for you but not for her. She's her own entity, her own person with her whole life ahead of her. Give her a name to be proud of.

Well if your surname isnt Wall it may be OK.

Other options are:
Brussels
Bristol
Budapest
Bern
Barcelona
Birmingham
Bradford
Bath
Bremen
Bucharest
Bruges
Belfast
Belgrade
Bergen
Bilbao
Bratislava
Brighton
Berwick-on-Tweed

Take my breath away . I like unusual names and whole I think Berlin has a nice sound to it I do think you'll get a lot of faces.

No.

i like it

You might like to choose one of the cities Berlin is twinned with for the other twin:

Los Angeles - Paris - Madrid - Istanbul - Warsaw - Moscow - Budapest - Brussels - Jakarta - Tashkent - Mexico City - Beijing - Tokyo - Buenos Aires - Prague - Windhoek - London

Any inspiration there?

"It wouldn't be fair to have a Berlin and an Imogen for example."

Why- because Berlin would be so jealous of her sister having a proper human beings's name?

I know a Berlin, but she doesn't like the name. Sydney? London? Odessa? Sofia?

Just NO!

Belen? Surely they would get called bellend

MrsBennetsEldest - Belen sounds too close to bellend..I was crying with laughter

Ha ha ha cheered me right up this has.

Berlin?! Is that a joke?

I abhor children's names that are cities or places of interest. They are so tacky.

However Beatrix is just lovely. Maybe go with that and spare your poor child years of ridicule.

No sorry does not sound in the slightest feminine...

Oh please. No.

I like it

Try Warsaw for a boy or maybe Gaza or Bogside

Bad Wimpfen is badder than any of the above suggestions...