Vienna

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This is the only actual name that DP & I actually really like for a girl (we don't know what we are having).

Any thoughts?

Well, they're all names that have been used in songs. Yours is a place name that's been used in a song, and for a cat's name, and which you're now taking for use as a baby name. So they've all got a longer record of usage as 'normal' names, though personally I would not be able to use Delilah because in my head it would always be prefaced with Tom Jones bellowing ' why, why, WHY...'

Agree completely with old Tom & Delilah, bless! But I am Welsh, so even more so for me!

But still think there is double standards for normal names

I too would instantly think of the song.

I knew a French girl called Violaine, nn Vio, and quite liked that. Although it does remind me a bit of the word violence

I think you've been unlucky to have found a group who were teens/interested in music the time the song Vienna came out. None of the other songs have been hits since I started being interested in music, but I don't think any of those names have really been popular since the 1960s. The only people I know with them are older than me.

mmm, yeah fair point East

It's still on my list despite the majority disapproving. Top 3.. it's the only name DP has actually smiled at and actively liked so that will keep it there I am sure.

Must remember for boy's name. No songs, no sausages, no sweets, no biscuits, no cities, no cats. Anyone care to suggest?

We could come up with a list of 'disapproved' of names for you to pick from . We wanted easily spelled names which are recognized throughout Europe, N & S America so DCs would have names which are easy most places where they might live/work. Boring but true. One of the names was only used for 31 other girls the year she was born but it is instantly recognizable. Ds's name was rare in his year of birth but is now popular.

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Listen to the song and watch the video - it's a bit weird and dramatic and you'll understand why people will hum it meeeaannnss nothing to meee, ooohhhhh Viennnaaaaa and think of a white horse........

Sorry I'm not a fan of place names as first names - she will get asked why she is called Vienna - 'what's your name ?' 'Vienna' - 'what as in the city?'

and yes I am someone else who thinks songs when I hear Delilah, Mandy and don't for heavens sake name your daughter Alice.

FWIW I couldn't get DP to talk seriously about names until about 20mins after DD was born. We then agreed really quickly on a name I hadn't even thought of pre-birth. It just suited her.

That would be fantastic!

Not a bad way to do things!

How about Frank for a boy?

Short for Frankenfurter (Rocky Horror Show) combines sausages Frankfurters & a city. Could even claim connection with Frankenstein (literature).

I love viennas, now I fancy a vienna sandwich with mustard.

That's all really.

hahahaha DPotter - My DD heard the Alice song last year and laughed her head off and almost died with embarrassment. She now hums the tune every now again and blushes when she realises what she is doing thinking she is going to get a telling off!

On second thoughts, I am not going to listen to the song and give myself any negative association to it but thank you

That's lovely about your naming also, I just worry that we haven't thought of anything at all other than this that be both agree on so far, that he/she will end up nameless or with a name that either of us really care for.

Frank it is East. No arguments.

Valeria? Vienna just reminds me of the city.... I think the same about Sienna too...

Tendon that made me laugh re Rigsby's cat...

If Delilah kicks off Tom jones in your head, then it is EXACTLY the same for the people hearing Vienna as a name. And don't forget the people giving her a job will all be older than her.

I wouldn't use Cecilia or Maggie May for the same reasons, tbh. And I had no idea the Pretty Woman name was Vivienne - I think that's a much less common reference!

Song her for me too or Rigsby's cat but I don't think that would be much of a problem with her friends at school

Vienna? It means nothing to me...

Better than Belgravia, Mondeo or Corvette I guess!

The more I look at it, the more stunning, elegant and pretty it becomes!

You'd better like Ultravox!
"it means nothing to me...."
Oh dear. Yes, Vienna is a nice word. It might make a good name. But every time I heard it, I'd picture the young Midge Ure and go weak at the knees.
Don't give her a V variant - they all look like 'vulva' on paper. Viana? Where's that, then? Got to be somewhere in fanjo-land.

I like it.

Oh Chilli you beat me to it with Rigsby's cat. I rarely comment on name threads unless I've got something nice to say as it is really such a personal thing. Won't you also fall foul of Katie Hopkins' for choosing a geographical location. I love the City but I'm not a fan of fancy names tbh. The German spelling is Wiener pronounced Veener which might attract some ridicule. Goodnight Vienna from me (in the nicest possible way).

The German spelling isn't Wiener, it's Wien.

It makes me think of that Father Ted Eurovision episode, where Ted knew the priest who had sung it "he didn't want anyone to know he was a priest, he made up some name I can't remember, anyway the song was called Vienna".

i love it. its pretty

Course it is Vinyl. I'm thinking of Wiener Schnitzel. I better stay off naming threads.