City/place names for boys

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Ds who is 11 just said he’d like to name a girl a flower name (lilac is his preference) and a boy a city/place name as his is. I can only think of DS’s name and Paris and Brooklyn. I’m sure there are more though?!

Sterling
Henley
Marlow/e

Durham

Barry (Island)
Bardsey
Ramsey
Bunbury

Thinking big (countries / territories rather than cities)

Chad
Kashmir
Israel
Jordan
Cuba
Solomon (Islands)
Marshall (Islands)
Dominic(a)
Tristan (da Cunha)

Lots of island groups prefixed with Saint - Barthelemy, Vincent, Maarten, Martin, Pierre, Eustatius.

York
Kent
Paisley
Berne
Paris
Troy
Fife
Berwick
Wight
Tobermory
Dudley
Devon
Bristol

Brixton
Peckham
(Brix and Peck for short...)

Angus
Bute
Hove

There is a small city in Alabama named Phil Campbell.

When we first moved there and the local weather reporter said 'It is raining on Phil Campbell right now' I though that was kind of a personal weather report.

There is also the Susan Moore Township, but that probably won't work for a boy.

Shouldn’t that be Hove Actually?

I used to line manage someone whose surname was Penistone. His dr

Try again. I used to line manage someone whose surname was Penistone. His driving licence number always used to make me smile. I should be over this, Penistone is my nearest town.

Kent
Kendal
York

Ouagadougou. No one else is called that.

Timbuktu could be plain Tim if the name was a bit too out there.
Benghazi could be Ben
Oran
Jos

If Preston and Leyland make the list, how about Chorley?

Chorlton works too (who remembers Chorlton and the Wheelies?)

Scotland is probably where to look

Moray (pronounced Murray)
Keith
Corran
Lewis
Harris
Tiree
Skye
Arran
Huntly
Campbell (for Campbell town)
Nairn
Irvine
Erskine
Livingston
Atholl
Blair

Or Kerry for Ireland.

I love the Phil Campbell story!

I’d give Orkney a miss though.

Douglas (Isle of Man, or Castle Douglas)
Ryan (Loch Ryan)
Hamilton
Gordon
Fraser(burgh)
Peter(head)
Angus

Bulgaria
Tobermory
Cholet
Orinoco
Wellington
Tomsk
Bungo
Alderney
Shansi
Stepney
Cairngorm
Obidos
Adelaide
Alexandria
Amsterdam
Atlanta
Bermondsey
Bonn
Botany
Cairns
Culvain
Dunedin
Eucula
Fashven
Heidelberg
Heilbronn
Hirado
Hoboken
Idaho
Jamaica
Lille
Livingstone
Moosonee
Murrumbidgee
Nanking
Normandy
Omsk
Ontario
Osborne
Perth
Quetta
Serengeti
Speyer
Stromboli
Thessaly
Tokyo
Winnipeg
Woy Woy
Yellowstone

Some are "girls" names but I'm sure a Womble wouldn't mind recycling a name.

@SabrinaThwaite yes actually. Also great username!!

Scunthorpe

Maine is very cute somehow
Also Princeton
Bronx
Manhattan

Durham

My grandmother's brother was called Carlisle, I always thought it was a nice name. If you think about your family history and where they came from you might end up with a name that you like.

Or Wetwang...