Best, worst and most passable place names.

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What are the best, worst and most passable place names for children you have come across?

I hate Rio because I cannot stop linking it mentally to Las Vegas.
I love Alaska because it just rolls off the tongue so beautifully.
Brooklyn is passable though seems a bit bland.

Where do you stand on place names?

I know someone called Britain! I think London is used in the USA, but not so much here.

Surely any girl called Bristol would be nicknamed Bristols?

@crabbo Tex is a cool nickname. Think you'd have to be a grizzled old cowboy to pull it off, though!

Edenember no Indiana is lovely

Surely any girl called Bristol would be nicknamed Bristols?
Eh?

Sydney is another popular one. And Brittany

@sleepingstandingup

Bristols is slang for boobs - Bristol City =titty

In our family tree in the late 1800s we had a trio of siblings named after places.

Two of them quite unisex as well, unless you knew which were male/female you would have to hazard a guess

I love Adelaide.

It gets silly though as it,s been pointed out, some of the places are named after people not people after placeas. So Adelaid was a girls name before a place, London not so much.

Sydney was named after Lord Sydney who was Home Secretary at the time.

How about Staines and Slough for a sibset?

One of my DDs is a Scottish Island. Several boys names on my list were other Scottish Islands. (Other DD breaks the pattern!)

Lots of place names are surnames, which are then commonly used as middle names, then morph into first names, so it's easy to see why names lime Lincoln and Preston become popular.

Tex is a cool nickname

There's am older bloke who's popped up on a few TV gameshows called Tex. I don't know if that's his actual name or short for Terence or something. Northern chap, slightly reminiscent of Count Arthur Strong. I genuinely can't make up my mind if it's odd or perfectly fitting.

Obviously, their respective parents would have had no way of knowing when they named them at birth, but there must be at least one older couple out there called Bert 'n' Joyce

And Florence actually but I think of that as name first rather than place.

It was Florence Nightingale who popularised the name for girls and she was born in Florence. The place definitely came first but it's still a lovely name.

I met a young lad called den recently
Denver.

I know a girl named *Texas Carolina
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She's American and her parents are from those states. For some reason it actually made me go 'wow' when I met her as it's definitely not an easy name to pull off. *
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I wish I had a unique name like that! It's very uncommon but still no pronunciation or spelling mistakes

Someone on another thread is considering naming her dd Brighton or Holland.... Ffs what's wrong with some people.

There's no difference between Florence, Madison, Paris or Brooklyn. Or Brighton for that matter. They're all primarily names for towns/cities.

Personally I think Scunthorpe would be a poor baby name choice. And Grimsby. 😁

If I really had to give a child a place name, I’d probably go for Dakota (girl) or Elgin (boy). I’m not enormously keen on either but they’re about the best I can think of.

Actually, Ailsa is ok. As is Islay.

Benbecula would probably be a less good island choice.

Muck might be difficult to live with.

Seen celeb wise a London and an Ireland, which I thought were a bit out there - like the Nova from Nova Scotia (or from supernova).

In my opinion there is a massive difference between names of people that also happen to be names of places (eg Florence, Jordan, Georgia, Rio etc)..... to place names that are just places which in think is a bit tacky...