British place names that would sound good as first names

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Just musing... What about

Exeter
Cumbria
Lewisham (!!)

Any takers?

I know a little girl called Paignton

It's quite common in Scotland. I know people called:

Lewis
harris
Lorne
Skye
Rhona
Ailsa
Iona
Isla/y
Nairn
Ossian
Brodie
Ross
Stirling
Moray
Morar
Dunbar
Kyle
Merrick
Gordon
Ness
Coupar
Keir
Craig
Paisley
Vaila
Angus
Arran
Blair
Atholl
Conway
Struan
Fraser
Keith
Dallas
Calder
Blaven
Clyde
Glen

Beverley of course
Shirley
Tilley

Locally, I give you
Shelley
Emley
Kirk
Burton
Denby
Heaton

If you surname is Hill, you really need to call your daughter Dollis.

But seriously, I like Torrin (place on Skye). It could be for a boy or girl.

Thong?

Tring?

Badgers Mount?

Leyton
Loughton
Hackney
Stepney
Beckton
Anerley
Dalston

Bit of an East London theme!

I know a Scott whose birth name is Scotland!

You know people called Paisley and Dunbar and Dallas, One?? Possibly as surnames but not as first names surely?

Clare (in Suffolk)
Cavendish
Amberley

There was a Lady Essex Rich in the 1700s, I've warmed to the idea of Essex as a name since learning that :)

Dudley

Blakeney

Medway
Battle
Morpeth
Sunderland
Kennington
Carnaby
Soho

There are so many!

London is popular in USA atm.
Preston is Britney Spears sons middle name.
I know a baby Lincoln
An adult Nairn

Lots of Scottish ones actually:
Skye
Lewis
3x Harris
Iona
Arran
Crawford
Angus
Stirling
Irvine

Devon-a common unisex name in USA
Dudley
Chester-Davila McCall son
Lester-does this misspelling count?
Trent
Bexley
Aston
Warwick
Newton
Ashford

Funny I was just thinking earlier that the name Lincoln would be quite cool.

Bognor

Grimsby

Wetwang (it's a village though)

wigan.

Upper Ramsbottom

Devon?

There's a Romiley near me which is already a girls name (Romilly).

I know a Dyfed, Lincoln, Paisley and Taliesin

Vange

I think the following have a certain ring to them:-

Wick
Unst
Mull
Alyth
Methven
Buchanty Spout...