Alabama

[EllenDegenerate]

I really like it.
DP is unsure.

Opinions?

I'm sorry but I think it's awful. I really dislike place and surnames as first names. They don't sound cool or trendy to me (I'm assuming that's what's intended).

Sorry, but it's a no from me.

Oh lord no.

oooooh no...

If the registrar has any sense he won't allow it anyway...

Too many syllables and a bit of a tongue twister.

Not cool or trendy particularly....
More ironic in a Tarantino homage kind of way

I appreciate its not to the popularise taste though.

I love quirky names but even I think it's bad.

popularist

Fucking awful - and I say that knowing of one!

great name for a cocktail, for a DC it would be a noooooooooooooooooo from me. The history of the US civil rights movements will always associate the name with narrow minded bigotry and racism.

No no no.

Sorry

Sorry to be mean but I can't even read it without doing a really bad accent....

Like Alabama whirly from true romance- you've reminded me I've been meaning to watch it again for a while!
I'll go against the majority and say I like it because i do, although unsure if I'd choose it myself.
If your husband doesn't like Alabama would he (or you?!) Alba which I think sounds a little similar?

Exactly Raeray. Alabama Worley

In the name of all that is holy, no.

Dreadful. Sorry but it is.

I try not to be negative generally, but no OP, it is not nice .... neither is the place which I have had the unfortunate experience of visiting.

I'm not against place names as baby names in general, but the state of Alabama does have some pretty undesirable associations. Aside from the racism / segregation / civil rights stuff, it's also the fifth fattest state and fifth from bottom for education.

It is kind of phonetically pleasing though, isn't it? Sort of pleasurable to pronounce. And maybe in the UK people are less aware of the reputation of the place.

Would that be for a boy or a girl? I can’t decide. Either way i don’t like it.

For a person?

Have you actually been to Alabama?

I'm not against place names as baby names in general, but the state of Alabama does have some pretty undesirable associations.

Seconding this.

No Admittedly I haven't.

As I mentioned previously, its the name of the fictional character, rather than the geographical element that informs my untepentant love of it.

On its own, no.

Multiple barrelled to become Alabama-but-named-after-a-film-character-not-the-state-that's-home-to-racial-segregation-and-the-Ku-Klux-Klan, then yep go for it.