Opinions on the name Alaska?

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Alaska for a girl?

I agree with the other RuPaul fans. It's not for me.

I'm a drag race fan so it just makes me think of Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 😂

I’ve only heard it in the John Green novel Looking for Alaska which isn’t something I’d name a baby after

I like it!

The only time I've heard it as a name for a person is in the book Looking for Alaska. It's very sad and not an association I would want for naming a child.

My friends dog is named Alaska, nn Lassie!

That aside, in isolation it think it sounds quite nice.

Might work if she had a husky voice

I like it.

Have you been OP?

How about Eleska instead ?

I know an Alaska, I think it is lovely. No different to other place name names, Florence, India, France, etc etc

Yeh, agreeing with the others sorry, it doesn't work. Baked Alaska came in to my head too quickly. Then Fargo-esque visions of trudging along in snow blizzards

I don't hate it (surprisingly).

Paris the city has a totally different etymology from Paris the name (Prince of Troy, a real name originating in the Greek myths)

It's a bad idea. Try again.

In a Dublin accent, I’d say:
‘Alaska, the state of ye!’

Or in a non-rhotic accent it might be ‘yer’

Nice name, If it has a meaning to you, all great, if it is a fashion statement, maybe worth a re-thin.

Either you’re asking for a wind up in which case well done.
Or you really think it’s a nice name in which case don’t ask if you don’t want a negative opinion

No worse than Brooklyn, Paris, Asia etc

...but no better either.

Just ‘why’?

Apparently the people who come to MN to shit stir use the baby naming boats to cut their teeth and to get their number of posts up. It’s always hard to know when an op is serious and when it’s one of them. If even half the op’s are serious, I’d hate to be calling the class register in a few years time.

To me it's no more a name than Ohio, California or Vermont.

Alaska Thunderfuck

Why not Nebraska nn Alaska. ? Seriously it leaves me cold - kind of a steppe too far for a name. A bit way out there ? Think your dc will spend life with people asking what her connection to the state is which could become tiresome for her ? Saskia ? Alana ?

It's not a name. It's an American state.

@PiperPublickOccurrences as is Georgia! 😊

State of Georgia was named after King George II.

Totally different thing.

Surname baked by any chance ?