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Today i heard a mom calling out.............

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festivedollyx · 16/12/2008 21:16

her toddler daughter in a shoe shop her name was...

...Fallon (dont know if thats how its spelt)

I have never heard this before, its a new one for me. Just thought id share with you all cant decide if i like it or not!!

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VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 21:16

Isn't it from Dynasty?

SleighGirl · 16/12/2008 21:17

wasn't that a Dynasty character?

frankbestfriend · 16/12/2008 21:17

Dynasty.

It's OK, prefer Farrah though.

whomovedmychocolate · 16/12/2008 21:17

Isn't that a boy's name - I'm sure there is a Fallon in the Archers

SnowballsintheSky · 16/12/2008 21:17

Did you never watch Dynasty? And yes, it's spelled like that. Haven't heard it in a bloody long time though.

Poledra · 16/12/2008 21:18

Dynasty mothing - there's a Fallon in The Archers, doncha know??

Poledra · 16/12/2008 21:19

nothing I mean (and the Fallon in the Archers is a girl)

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festivedollyx · 16/12/2008 21:20

Lol i wish i was younger !! i remember dynasty maybe thats why it sounds kind of familiar!

Does sound like it would be more suited as a boys name tho i do agree with that.

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whomovedmychocolate · 16/12/2008 21:21

Poledra - you see this is what happens when you have kids, you lose all sense of the plot of the Archers

TheButterflyEffect · 16/12/2008 21:22

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LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 16/12/2008 21:22

Awful. But somebody on this board had it on their list recently.

Yuck. Double yuck. Sounds like Talon. Or Felon. Just totally bad.

VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 21:24

Does it mean anything at all? Always makes me think "falcon" which then reminds me of Falcon Crest...

Poledra · 16/12/2008 21:32

wmmc, not in my case - 3DCs later and the 13 minutes of the Archers is about as long as I can concentrate for.......

babylovessanta · 16/12/2008 22:13

Hate it.

stillenacht · 16/12/2008 22:14

I taught a 14 year old Fallon 10 years ago so would have coincided with Dynasty

VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 22:16

Fallon in Dynasty was a woman with large hair surely?

wrinklytum · 16/12/2008 22:18

There is a Fallon in the Archers.

wrinklytum · 16/12/2008 22:19

Reads other replies and realise this has already been pointed out Sorry.

Majeika · 16/12/2008 22:22

www.moviemarket.co.uk/Fallon_Carrington_Colby_C331608/

here she is

beanieb · 16/12/2008 22:24

"The girl's name Fallon \f(al)-lon\ is pronounced FAL-en. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is "superiority; descended from a ruler". From the Gaelic word "follamhnus". May also be a transformation of the English name Fuller, an occupational surname for a textile worker.

Fallon has 4 variant forms: Faline, Fallan, Fallen and Fallyn.

Baby names that sound like Fallon are Fayline, Faeleen, Valyn, Valen and Vallonia"

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LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 09:45

Never heard it on the streets of Dublin I must say. Definitely one for the 3rd generationers in America!

Poppycake · 17/12/2008 10:03

but Liffey it's a common enough surname, and you know how Americans love making surnames into forenames, and then it gets imported (see Taylor etc)

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 12:35

Yes that's true Poppycake, they show us how we should be doing it!

NattyTurkeyAndEggnog · 17/12/2008 12:36

hate it

bozza · 17/12/2008 13:42

Fallon was the daughter of Blake Carrington and Alexis. Didn't she get abducted by aliens?

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