Tinsley for a girl?

[Cortina]

I've always secretly liked this. Is it as bad as I fear?

And Rhett for a boy. Has anyone ever met one out of interest?

"I would really try to discourage someone naming their child after a cooling tower in S Yorks"

Lol can this be quote of the week please

Coo this is very pleasant today

Bet you are glad you checked . It is an area which had cooling towers (now demolished) so you would be naming the girl after an area not a tower. I am Sheff born and bred but have to say none of it's neighbourhoods spring to mind as potential names!!

I had no idea Tinsley's cooling towers were gone!! used to spend every holiday up in that part of the world... it's obviously been a while.

Tinsley Wireworks in Sheffield's industrial heartland - my nan had a friend who'd worked there and used to take her for a game of darts and a port and lemon down the Social, mmmm lovely name

It were big news 'ere (to be fair it was summer and so there was a dearth of other news). You can relive it all here

gosh, don't know if i dare send that link to my Mum. she will likely be miffed!

Well I think they're ok, TBH. Children tend to grow to fit their names IME. (I bet you lot can think of some startling exceptions.)

That is a bit mean GingGang, I agree.

But think that the whole point of these name posts is so you can REALLy find out what folk think about names. I think if someone is really wedded to a name they probably shouldn't post it on here.

BTW -Rhett = terrible. THey would have to be amazingly charismatic to pull that off and not just a balding man in middle management in later life.
Tinsley = really terrible.

LOL at Rhett the balding middle management guy on the golf course etc! I've got hysterical images of a guy with a paunch and a comb over saying 'hi I am Rhett' now.

The Rhett I know will be hugely charismatic when older (he is now) the family are not run of the mill so I don't think, fortunately for him, he'll face these potential issues.

It's interesting people seem violently opposed to Rhett here. I do quite like it, it comes from literature, there are much, much worse You won't forget him!

MrsSantoisafeminist:

We could do Stan for Stannington, or Doreen for Dore - or TheoDore? We might even get away with Beau for Beauchief - but as it's a case of 'BEAUchief? - oh! tha means BEEEECHEEF luv!' we'd have to pronounce it the posh way ie. the incorrect way. At a push, there's Rivelin? (River as in Phoenix) Or Kelham? That might be ok for a boy? Really pushing it would be Brad for Bradfield.

I have seen Darnall in a baby book but my nan's from there so I couldn't go with that.

Funny - it's not the sound of the name, it's the association.

Rhett = brown loafers, sensible shirt, cricket sweater slung over the shoulders, foppish hair and a proclivity for saying ?yah?.

Tinsley = surname.

Dont, its a dump, always has been.

Don't see Rhett as a posh boy. Ok, you've turned me off!

Still have a hankering for Tinsley though, maybe I should emigrate or re-christen a cat?

Tinsley would be a fantastic name for a cat!

GingGangGillyGilly - in response to you - in all fairness to me, I was responding to the Op and thought that the name Tinsley sounded just like my friend's DD Kinsley which I happened not to like. I didn't even see that one of the other poster's had named their DD Kinsley. I posted without reading!!

Sorry, but I just don't like the name. The Op did ask for opinions.

odd.

I like Tansey and Linzy though.

I'm not a big fan, but I can see why you like it. It has that kind of "ring" to it.
I wouldn't name my child it though. Sorry.

Rhett?? I have never heard of that one either.

But hey, they are your kids!!!

Good luck on whatever you decide!

LOL! Stayfrosty

Being a Yank NYer, I think Tinsley Mortimer is nauseating and useless, and wouldn't want my baby named after her!

I don't mind Rhett as much, but it IS very American.

I like Red short for Redmond a lot more than Rhett. Or maybe Ross Edward nn Red...

Just seems a bit quirkier but at the same time more substantial than Rhett. Although I can see that some people would say, what? a colour ????

There is a Tinsley on Univ Challenge tonight. (Surname.) He is quite good!

Coronation Street.

Wasn't it Tilsley on Coronation Street? Ivy Tilsley?