Opinions on the name Alaska?

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Alaska for a girl?

Terrible. In the same camp as Chardonnay and Mercedes.

unless it's for a husky or a drag performer, no.

I know a toddler Antarctica. She's known as 'An' to everyone. Yours will be Al by the time she's a month old.

Have you actually ever been to Alaska OP?

What's the for Chardonnay?

No.

Eliska could be an alternative. I read a book with a character called this and quite liked the sound of it.

Eleska and Eliska sound like the answers you would get if you asked an Australian “what is the 49th state of the USA”?

You can't do that to another human.

Really funny. I heard a guy in the park calling out: 'Alaska. Phoenix. C'mon, it's time for supper.' He was wearing socks & Birkenstocks. My husband and I still laugh about it in a semi-regular basis.

Sorry, OP

I immediately think of Alaska Thunderfuck 5000.

Just ridiculous and trying waaaay too hard.. your child won't thank you.

Not to my taste, I think of a Ms America contestant or a stripper when I hear the name.

I’d think of meringue or Sarah Pallin. I wouldn’t saddle a child with it.

If I hadn't heard of the drag queen or dessert, I think on first hearing this name I'd think you were a child pageant mum. No class to it.

My middle name is Mercedes! FFS.. It's a well respected Spanish name, Hollyoaks ruins everything

I think of drag queen alaska too

Go the whole hog and call her lil poundcake 😁

Meh it's not too bad.

Side bar - I think Mercedes particularly with Spanish accent is a very beautiful name. What a shame it’s integrity as a name has been a bit overtaken in non Latino usage when the car marque jumps to kind more quickly . . . Odd how names can morph over the years . . .

Dreadful.
Interestingly (I think!) when my 84 year old Mum was little, she played with a terribly, terribly posh little girl from an aristocratic family who was called San Francisco, she will have been born in the early 1930s. I’ve always thought that was a bold choice. My mum idolised her, she was a bit older than Mum; brave, funny and dazzling. Sadly she died of leukaemia very young, in her early 20s or late teens. Mum lost touch well before then but her own Mum heard on the grapevine.

Mercedes is a beautiful name in no way on a par with Alaska.

Alaska means “mainland”, why would you want to call your child “mainland”?

"Do you know who that is?"

"Not sure. I'll ask her."

Thankyou, Thankyou. I'm here all week.......

Awful

Awful. My son was at school with a girl named cartier. Just as bad