Dublin as a name?

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Thoughts? Would you think boy or girl?

Lovely welcoming rock there Irliml

I've heard of a lady called Venice. She must be in her 70's.

How about Black Pool in another language? Scots is Amar Dubh, Welsh is Pwll Du, Danish is Sort Pool..... love google translate

Ireland kind of works as a name, I guess?

@ the girls called Keighley and Aberdeen.

Dublin is alright as far as place names go. Better than Brooklyn. Definitely one for a one-sixteenth-Irish- American, though .

I know a man called London.

Peckham for a boy, Streatham for a girl, I say.

Waitrose
Lidl
Aldi
Sainsbury
Tesco
Asda
Netto
Ikea (nice ring to it)
Uber
Chiltern (as in Firehouse, obvs)
Maccie
Southern
Pizza

I wouldn't use it, but I wouldn't find it all that weird as a boy's name provided they didn't live in Ireland.

Someone up-thread (sarcastically I think) suggested Bray, which I think is a great boy's name and I've fairly sure is used in the US.

Dublin means black pool, so how about Blackpool instead.
Grimsby has a certain ring to I though.

Should have read the fred. Bell has a certain ring to it too. Maybe you'll find some ideas here:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/whats-in-a-name-britains-rudest-places-831422.html

Zelda places named Victoria were named after Queen Victoria not the other way round.

IIRC Florence Nightingale was the first Florence. Her parents named her after the place they visited on honeymoon. The locals don't call the city Florence though, it's Firenze.

Gosh, not Bray.

Greystones is much naicer.

Zelda
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I think that Newtownmountkennedy would make be a lovely name. Btw that place name always reminds me of a vulgar joke.

Kinvarra is quite popular.

I think the Muff Rock missed a beat- it would be better if they had carved it into a triangle. 🔽

Whatever you do don't name him Stillorgan. Lifetime of viagra jokes.
You could go with Dingle, but only if you use berry as a middle name.

I reckon Schull could catch on. Very west Cork yachty. Pronounced 'skull' for the non-Irish on here.

What about "Scholl" for the shoes you were wearing at the time?

Yes sorry Plunkette that was the point I was trying I make but was very unclear....

That Florence and Victoria were people first.

Oh bloody hell no!!

Fine as the name of a capital city, but for god's sake don't saddle a child with it. Try a nice, normal name.

If you are into Irish place names then the only one I can think of that might work would be Shannon, for a girl

There's a town called Kilcock just outside Dublin to the west.😂

Or call the child Norwich, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow etc.

Sorry. Not generally a fan of naming children after places. I would cringe if I heard Dublin as a child's name.

Zelda

What about Drumnadrochit? Got a nice ring to it.

Lesmahago? Milngavie? Auchtermuchty? Anniesland? Possilpark? Or for a bit of class, Bearsden or Morningside?

mavis I kind of love the idea of naming one twin Possilpark and the other Bearsden. Just to see if there are any differences in how they turn out...

Poor Aberdeen's wee pals have taken to calling her "Abbie" - making the best of a bad lot, I suppose.

I've no idea what you could shorten Dublin to. If a girl, maybe "lin" (like Lynne...)