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Vienna

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Notaverymemorablename · 21/08/2015 08:57

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?

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cashewnutty · 21/08/2015 20:39

My DDs both born in the 90's know this song. Where have you been?

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 21/08/2015 21:31

It"s a beautiful name but I think you would need to have a connection to City to be worthy of using the name. I don't necessarily mean from there but
It could be where you convinced
.Where you got engaged
Where you got married or had your Honeymoon.
Without any connections. Then IMO. It is just trying too hard. But I am stranger on the Internet. My opinion matters not one jot

Looserella · 21/08/2015 21:33

Yep, sang the Ultravox song when I read the thread title

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 21/08/2015 21:37

You've never heard the song. Vienna by Ultravox. Confused
It was a massive hit in about 1891.

CheekyMaleekey · 21/08/2015 22:00

You want to name your baby:
A) After a city
B) after a city that you've never even been to.

TACKY!

It means nothing to me... Oh, Vienna!

TooMuchCheesecake · 21/08/2015 22:16

I know of a baby Vienna. Most people were a bit Confused when she was first named. Personally I think it's quite pretty but not something I would choose to name a baby.

stupidgreatgrinonmyface · 21/08/2015 22:29

I like it. I have come across a few in the last few years (work in a school) and think it is actually very pretty. And much nicer than the several Chelseas, couple of Paris' and an Indiana that I have known (the name is nicer, the children were actually lovely).

Somebody once commented that whilst dc1's name was 'ok' for a baby, it would dreadful for an adult. Well, dc1 is now an adult, loves the name and finds it somewhat amusing that several contemporaries use the same name as it is actually a diminutive of a more formal name. DC1 is the only one in that group who has that version on the birth certificate. So much for it being a dreadful name for an adult.

OP, if you and DH like the name, that is all that matters. Flowers

aoife24 · 22/08/2015 16:05

Rigby's cat in Rising Damp, although that is a long time ago now.

Junosmum · 22/08/2015 17:09

People call their kids India, Asia, Paris, Georgia, Atlanta etc so why not Vienna? I personally don't like it as a persons name, to me it would be like calling a child Peterborough or York. But it's personal choice.

processingincorectly · 22/08/2015 17:16

I like it.
I went to school with Verona. No idea if she was conceived there.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 22/08/2015 17:17

In hospital with DS1, I had the bed next to a lady who had just given birth to her third daughter.

She told me all her daughters' names were a place and a song; Vienna by Ultravox, Georgia by Michael Bolton and Chelsea, by the Chelsea Football team Hmm. I did snigger a little bit.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 22/08/2015 17:22

It's not just Ultravox - there are shedloads of waltzes with Vienna in the name (Goodnight Vienna, Vienna Life, Vienna Ladies, Vienna Bonbons from a quick glance at my iPod). All very pretty though.

I don't know, I wouldn't think to use it myself, but it is quite nice.

TheTravellingLemon · 22/08/2015 18:17

It seriously just means sausages to me, but I accept that not everyone makes that connection. For me though, I struggle to say the word without following it with 'and chips'.

ShouldILTB · 22/08/2015 19:03

I don't hate it, but I am not 100% sold on it being a legitimate name.

JakeyBurd · 23/08/2015 00:40

I don't get the problem so many seem to have with using place names for children, but then I'm Scottish and half our names started off as place names. I guess it takes time for some names to fall into common usage the way that place/people names like Gordon, Keith or Leslie did.

But they all started somewhere and Vienna is as good as any, so I'd say go for it, OP. Smile

whatsinthename · 23/08/2015 00:59

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LittleBearPad · 23/08/2015 01:01

Tom Jones and Midge Ure are competing in my head. It's unpleasant.

I wouldn't OP.

CruCru · 23/08/2015 12:18

It's also a suburb southwest of Washington DC.

MamaLazarou · 24/08/2015 08:37

It's lovely. I met a Vienna once and she really liked her name. Also lovely are Venice and Venetia.

BoboChic · 24/08/2015 08:42

Vienna sounds all right in English but the original German name Wien is awful.

Lolimax · 24/08/2015 08:49

Famously kept off no.1 by Shut up off your face or some such awful monstrosity. As I go to hide my 80's face in shame!!

TendonQueen · 25/08/2015 17:24

Yesterday on the Popmaster quiz on Radio 2, one question was 'Which European city features in the title of a number 2 hit by Ultravox?' Contestant immediately answered 'Vienna' and I'd have said they were averagely good (apologies if you're on here, contestant!) So it is reasonably common knowledge.

Loli it was indeed Joe Dolce Grin

Squooshed · 25/08/2015 17:37

I'm another irritating sort who always wants to warble 'OOOOHHHHHHH VIENNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' whenever I see mention of the city.

That would get punchably annoying for poor little Vienna very quickly.

Lolimax · 25/08/2015 17:41

I do the same with the name Ruby. 'Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Rubeee'

Squooshed · 25/08/2015 17:44

Cecilia is another one...

'Oh Ceciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliaaaa you're breakin' my heart.......'