Thoughts please - too weird (girls names)?

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Our first child, a girl, is due in December.

Hubby and I have very different views on names as he has super English, super traditional name and I have an unusual name which reflects fact I'm mixed race.

Kid will be 1/2 english, 1/2 mixed Asian so not enough of anything to make it make sense giving it a traditional name from any particular culture.

We are really struggling but two names we are thinking about are:

Mandalay - pronounced 'man-dah-lay'
Inle - pronounced 'in-lay'

Both are places in Myanmar which mean something to us as it's where we got together .

But haven't seen either used as names before and was wondering if they are a bit too weird/if there's anything we're missing in terms of negative associations. Thoughts would be much appreciated! Thanks!

I also just thought of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Vegas. Is is one of the nicer ones in Vegas but it is still associated with everything Vegas so I wouldn't. People will probs think baby was conceived there or something?!

I really like Inle. Mandalay is a pretty word but too well known as the place for me (but then again, I know people called India, America, China etc)

There is a character in Watership Down called the Black Rabbit of Inle.

I quite like it.

I think Inle is better because Mandalay could end up with Mandy as a nickname in the U.K. and that makes me think of Peter Mandelson.

Would Inle need an acute accent on the e? Inlé? I know it's pronounced Inlay as you've said, but others may think it was "Innul" or "In-lee"? Sorry I tried to do that as phonetically as I could

Inle is pretty but just hearing it I think of the verb and would be waiting for siblings Grout and Plaster to turn up.

I think Inle is lovely. I know an Ines (pronounced In-iss) and I quite like that too - simple and once you've had to correct pronunciation maybe once, that should be the only time.

Sidenote: Adelaide the place was named after Queen Adelaide, not the other way round.

I always think naming your kids after somewhere special in your relationship is a bit odd, sorry. I think people assume it's places you've shagged and conceived, which is awkward for the kid. If was the child I know I wouldn't like to be called Greater Yarmouth or Finglas.

If it must be one of them, I think Mandalay works better.