Thoughts on Flinders for a boys name?

[LarkmeadLass]

Any thoughts on Flinders for a boys first name?

It's an old family surname I've come across but I think it would be a unique, lovely name for my son.

Please let me know if this is too 'out there'?!

😂 Is this a wind up? This is right up there with Jimberley! 😆

For real? Jimberley? Suggested in baby names?

Same. I'm actually crying with laughter.

Think there's a Victorian explorer called Flinders

Quick Google Matthew Fljnders was the first person to Circumnavigate Australia

Wtaf no

That's who I'm thinking of Flinders Petrie

I quite like it

Definitely Flinders range in Australia

Oh god that Jimberely thread years ago was one of the funniest things ever. Right I need to find it....

Reminds me of Flinders Petrie, the great archaeologist.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/babynames/5064655-jimberly

You'll thank me for this believe me!

Not a choice I’d make.

My thoughts are, 'Is that actually a name for a person? I suppose it'd be a reasonable name for a company selling solid fuel or something like that, but less so as a given name for a child...'

I do thank you.

I’ve got a stitch from laughing.

Hard no. Sounds like cinders. Let’s hope there’s no ugly sisters.

It was the name of Matthew Flinders, the navigator who discovered Australia.

Wasn't Polly Flinders the bane of a horse in one of the Peter Whimsey short stories?

Yep! OP wanted to call the baby Jim after the grandad, but found out it's going to be a girl! 😆 So she asked if Jimberly would be OK! (I guess to rhyme with Kimberly!)

Jimberly | Mumsnet

Yep 🤣

As a middle name, possibly. As a first name? Hell no. We have a 'Fielding' in school and that's bad enough...

Flynn is fine. Flinders as a middle name ok as many people use old family surnames. But as first name it really sucks.

I came here to say that The Simpson’s came to my mind after reading the name

Someone’ll be along to say that Fielding McBongus was a famous Victorian acrobat or some such, so it’s all good.

He"ll be called Cinders at school

Absolutely awful.

Wind up surely ? Not just out there but bloody inexcusable

Flinders? Flinders?

No.