Bombalurina

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A baby name website has just suggested the name Bombalurina to me, based on my other choices which I didn't think were particularly strange.

A quick google tells me this was the name of one of the cats in CATS.

Is this a usable name?? I guess it could be shortened to Lurina, which is quite nice. When I first saw it I was a bit boggled but it's starting to sound more pleasant.

It’s a very popular name.

There were eight of them in my eldest’s reception class

It's like that poster a while back who had created a site to inspire people with baby names and was asking for feedback - it was ridiculous. She'd taken normal names like Lorraine, Sandra, Susan or Michelle and mushed them together to suggest Lorandra, Sanchelle or Michaine.

I had no idea French had gaps!

Well, at least we have a satisfactory explanation for the punctuation/space thing.

Less so for Bombalurina...

If anyone has used the Kinder name generator app, you can choose Pokemon names as an option. That brought about some interesting suggestions!

@NameChangeNugget 😂

It's not a wind up! The site genuinely did suggest it to me, based on a normal name. I don't think it's that bad. I know someone called Lurina. And I actually like it more because of the Timmy Mallet connection, what a legend. The child could just repeatedly say things like "mallet's mallet is a word association game where you mustn't pause or hesitate..." I take the point about shouting Bomba though...

Also, I've always thought Cosette and Eponine were lovely names!

Lol ! Yeah, French has gaps. I was actually shocked to discover that english doesn't ;)

Agree that Bombalurina has no explanation/justification. I speak four languages and know the basics of two more, and it sounds ridiculous in all of them !

Well there is a musical link between Timmy Mallett and Cats. It would seem that Andrew Lloyd Webber managed Timmy when he was in Bombalurina, probably hence the name. And Gary Barlow's missus was one of the other members.

Seriously there is somebody called Lurina? That is far too close to urine for my liking. I can well imagine what they'd have been called in high school.

Seriously there is somebody called Lurina? That is far too close to urine for my liking

Well, the same could be said of Irina, Marina, Laurina...