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'?!

No absolutely not

for a human child?! please don’t, it’s dreadful! Ned Flanders is the first thing that springs to mind.

Isn’t it also a university in Adelaide?

It certainly is yoo-neek, but mainly because no one else would saddle their kid with it.

I don't normally comment on baby name threads, but this one popped up on active.

It's really, really bad, OP. It's got a twee, fairytale ring to it - possibly because it sounds like Cinders- and also sounds like a public school nickname from the 1920s.

I think the 's' on the end is part of the problem. Not many first names have that plural-sounding s ending - not sure how to explain it, but that's as close as I can get! The s makes it sound like a nickname or surname.

Please don't do it.

It’s a bit random, but I suppose he’d just get called Flin

Better as a middle name I think

Seriously? Give your kid a break

Don't like it sorry, looks more like a word/fantasy character name. Would work fine as a middle name though

If you want an unusual name then Jago fits the bill or Jonty (long version Jonathan) or Kit (long version Christopher).

Yes, loads of stuff was named after him.

It sounds like an ideal name for a Dickensian chimney sweep.
I think it's lovely and you should call his siblings Pumblechook, Uriah, Wackford and Scrooge. Don't listen to the miseries on here, you go girl!

It’s an Australian university, not a child’s name

Flinders is a family surname and that could be meaningful.
I would use use it as a second name. It sounds best there.

Geordie Flinders Brown
Max Flinders Sullivan
Noah Flinders Middleton
Charles Flinders Saffin
Henry Flinders Federer

How about just calling him Flynn OP?

Flynn
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Floinn 'descendant of Flann' a byname meaning 'red(dish) ruddy'. There were families of this name in various parts of Ireland. This name has also been Anglicized as Lindsay. English: from Middle English Flin representing the Old Norse male personal name Fleinn.

I like family surnames being incorporated into children's names. - but it does depend on the surname and my first thought was of the Little Polly Flinders rhyme.
I would go with Flyn, it isn't exclusively Irish, or else go with user1492757084's suggestions. They look better than I thought they would.

Butter Flinders

Flynn Rider’s a good character to associate a name with. Unlike Little Polly Flinders.

Flynn Rider sounds like Jilly Cooper hero.

He’s the hero in Tangled.

Flynn is great, just stick with that.