Place Names

FrecklesInside

No place/destination names!! Ugh, why must the trend be encouraged?? 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/desintation-baby-names_n_4876920.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000037

oliversmommy32912

I don't mind most place names. I had never heard of Camden, NJ before this board. I live on the West coast. However, everyone seems to love the name Everett, and I would never use it because it's the name of a major city where I live. So what makes a good place name vs a bad place name? Notoriety?

BlueRidge8

Like picking surnames as first names, I don't "get it" unless the place holds some significance for you.

(this is my justification for DD's name being inspired by a place  - but it being significant for us…and also a name)

cinderin

oliversmommy32912 said:

I don't mind most place names. I had never heard of Camden, NJ before this board. I live on the West coast. However, everyone seems to love the name Everett, and I would never use it because it's the name of a major city where I live. So what makes a good place name vs a bad place name? Notoriety?

Live near Seattle? Everett is a suburb known for hookers, meth and crime. I cringe when I hear it as a name!

cinderin

I have a place name and I am not a fan. 

What if the kid wants to move there or live near there or do business with people living there? 

You can't be named the place where you live (or maybe you can and it is just super awkward?). 

oliversmommy32912

cinderin said:

oliversmommy32912 said:

I don't mind most place names. I had never heard of Camden, NJ before this board. I live on the West coast. However, everyone seems to love the name Everett, and I would never use it because it's the name of a major city where I live. So what makes a good place name vs a bad place name? Notoriety?

Live near Seattle? Everett is a suburb known for hookers, meth and crime. I cringe when I hear it as a name!

Yep

Keri Marie

cinderin said:

oliversmommy32912 said:

I don't mind most place names. I had never heard of Camden, NJ before this board. I live on the West coast. However, everyone seems to love the name Everett, and I would never use it because it's the name of a major city where I live. So what makes a good place name vs a bad place name? Notoriety?

Live near Seattle? Everett is a suburb known for hookers, meth and crime. I cringe when I hear it as a name!

Yep  

...We must be neighbors. I also dislike the name Mason because of it's a county with bad associations.

MinnesotaMomma91

My gp location name is blakeley. Its the town/township where my family is from. But i just couldnt use it on a real kid causd it would be weird

==N==

MrsMuq said:

I don't mind Vienna.

I LOVE Vienna.

Helenahhandbasket

I like a lot of place names. 

I am not sure why this trend always gets so panned over here. It's like every category of names-- there are some nice place names and some awful place names.  Just like there are nice preppy names and awful preppy names, nice vintage names and awful vintage names, nice trendy names and, well, you get the idea.

Place names I love:

Carolina

Savannah

Georgia

Eden

Austin

Chelsea

Hudson

Adair

 

 

 

 

aprilbaby2014

I love place names ... & I have a cousin named Macon . Lol, I hate it .

ccbraxton

I also think that there are so many places on this Earth that people don't realize they are naming their child a place, like the example given, Everett. I am from Louisiana and have never heard of that, but here we have a parish called Cameron, I am sure plenty of people name their child Cameron, never knowing that it exists in Louisiana. 

NerdyLucy

Grayson is a town nearby, which is why it's difficult for me to picture it as a name.

 

Also, I like the names Russell and Marshall, but due to them being "place" names nearby, I don't think I could use them. 

 

ETA: I should clarify that Marshall and Russell obviously don't fall into the "because it's cool" category. They're both legit names, great names at that. Having said that, one of these happens to be the name of the town in which I live.

WashingtonQueen

I really like a lot of place names. Paris is my favorite. It was high on my list but DH vetoed it a while back. Now my boxer is Paris.

Nuclearcupcake

I have a Grayson and didn't realize it was a place until this thread. I had never heard of Camden the place until it was already on the birth certificate. I still would have picked those names for my sons. I love the names and they are the only names my husband and I agreed on for them

nittanyllama

==N== said:

I don't mind Vienna.

I LOVE Vienna.

Ha. MH suggested this as a girls name in bed the other night, because we were discussing Sienna. I laughed at him... so I guess I'm not a fan.