Naming babies after place names

[CklarahAndMarbellasMum]

My DD, aged 6, is called Marbella. Do you think it's chav to name DC after places?

If not, what place names do you like as names for DC?

aye!peckhams is the local shop

The son I'll never have is Dagenham Auchtermuchty.

auchenshuggle
plains
gorgie

Pizza Hut toilet?

That would make it a more classy name... not that I know much about the London Peckham. I always like the drive down the M74 when we go past Ecclefechan, have always thought it would make a great non-swear word, but now that I think about it perhaps a name for a DS...? so long as it didn't get shortened to 'Fech'...

i meant packhams hyndland

(I just didn't want anyone thinking I meant that the Peckham in London WASN'T classy when comparing it with the rather swish deli in West End Glasgow... IYSWIM)

but em peckham SE15 aint classy.a euphemism would be "vibrant"

You have daughters called Marbella and Cklarah? Do you pronounce it "Mar-bella" or "Mar-baya"?

Yes, Marbella v chav IMO, but each to their own. Cklarah - won't even go there, except to say, if you're for real, that she will spend her entire life spelling it for people.

Rimini
lesbos

Yank - ours would be Hainault, which would be very odd. And what happens if you don't move and have more than one??

It's prn. Marbaya MrsSchadenfreude. My grandad lives there and I have fond memories of the place.

I like place names and I guess it's all down to tastes and opinions.

Some other names I like are:

Orlando (boy)
Rome (boy)
Roma (girl)
Barcelona...lona for short (girl)
Santiago (boy)
Ohio (girl/boy)
Dakota (girl)
Chihuahua (girl)
Brittany (girl)

Westward Ho! looks fab with the added bonus of an exclamaition mark!

Adds name to list.

Chihuahua

Right...

Chihuahua is just wrong! What is wrong with you!

DH wanted to call our DD (at the time she was still a bump) Columbia. It actually sounded really quite good with our surname and I was very tempted...

I know a Rimini, although I don't know if that's how she spells it. My uncle lives in Corpusty, I think that would be nice !

Peckham SE15 is quite classy enough for everyday use, thank you very much.

not slagging SE15 off but classy dont spring to mind when i think peckham

i do think

urban
busy
pacey

like all places has its good and bad points

Do not fear, SM, I am just wittering mindlessly. I don't even know what classy means or whether it's something I would value in an area, tbh.

classy i think frou-frou over priced deli.lil overpriced boutiques,wags

so not necesarily desirable

One of my DNephew's would be Mpumalanga, going by the Beckham's logic.

Username taken - Westward Ho! wouldn't be ideal for a girl, nobody wants to be called a ho....

Are the 'L's pronounced in Marbella, or is it Mar-baya?

I am sure you are joking, in any case.

Oops, sorry - I see someone else has already asked. And from your 'Chihuahua' comment, I deduce that you are definitely on a wind-up.