Dublin as a name?

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Thoughts? Would you think boy or girl?

DS was lucky. I used to always listen to R4 through the night, including in the maternity room the night he was born, so he could have ended up with a corker! I was sad when they stopped playing sailing away.

My sis is having a boy and I'm trying to persuade her to follow this fashion of naming after place names. I'm thinking Dingle. With Dongle as a second name. Pure class that is.

I wonder if DH would veto Grindelwald... ? ;)

I'm loving "muff" May I also suggest Sallynoggin for a girl ?

Borris for a boy?
Oh dear, really don't like Dublin, I'd maybe think for a boy but wouldn't be sure?
Aberdeen is awful, I live in fife and a girl at my daughters nursery was named Fyfe and had a baby brother with the middle name Forth
Just so, so glad that wasn't his first name!!

I've been to Muff! We went out of the way to go there... just for the craic (crack? Geddit?).

Aaaaaaaanyway, it is a nice place. We went into a shop to ask if they did postcards but sadly not. The shopkeeper said there is a lot of demand for them.

How about that village in Wales called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

Florence? Sometimes things are both things.

Here OP what about some of these www.dailyedge.ie/funny-place-names-ireland-998203-Jul2013/

I met a girl called Keighley
That is not a beautiful place to be named after

Dublin. Double Chin.

Plenty more towns and cities to chose from.
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Stupid idea for a name, Pity the poor kid.

Won't it be really awkward for form filling... as the name is always Dublin.

What about Knock?

There's a Paisley in the school
my DC go to (we're in the US). It always makes me smile. I can only assume they haven't been.

I'd say even if you are American (where place names like Devon and Paris are pretty standard) Dublin is still a bit out there and odd sounding. But you never know - it could catch on!

It sounds silly.

I've got to agree with everyone else Dublin isn't a name for a human. Maybe a fish, but not a baby.

Some place names work. I think Florence is a beautiful girls name.
Not keen on Paris or Chelsea but I guess they have become proper names.
I just can't imagine Dublin, maybe you are just ahead of the times. Don't think your child will thank you for it. Use it as a middle name if you must

Dublin sounds odd to me, and not in a good way.

The GD of a friend of mine is called Vienna, which I think is lovely.

Unlike any of the other people who have posted on here so negatively, I have actually met a boy called Dublin. At first I thought it was unusual and a little strange, admittedly. However, as with so many names, one became accustomed. The sound is not unpleasant for a boy and it is no worse IMO than the surname-as-first-name fashion for Spencer, Mason, Harrison etc.

I have a horse called Dublin. It is not a human name, get a grip.

I know children called Paris, Chelsea, London, Florence, Brooklyn, Milan and Sienna. None of them are names I would personally choose but they all kind of work as names.
Dublin doesn't. I don't know why but it just doesn't have the right sound.

@Frillyhorseyknickers that made me laugh a lot 😂

Victoria?
Adelaide?
Florence?
Siena?

Brooklyn probably only works because we've got used to it from Brooklyn Beckham, IIR it was out there when they used it... maybe this will go the same way?

Also Florence and Victoria are names named after places / separately to people. Not people named after places.

Oh dear