WDYT of Berkeley for a girl?

tracerco

We have thrown around the name Berkeley Jean (Jean is my mother's middle name).  What are your thoughts?  Other middle name ideas?  Our DS's name is Clayton Thomas.

Cissi64

Not a fan!

ames71

I don't like it for either, but for a girl it's pretty awful. There's nothing attractive about it IMO. I like Jean as a mn.

Emiliana7

I would pray that she's very pretty because if not lots of cruel Barkley nicknames...

meaganjoelle1

NMS at all

Desmond&MollyJones*

I like it.

frasey

I like the name, but not for a girl!

forensicmama

Gross.

mlf625

She sounds like a ditz.  

There was a character on Brothers & Sisters a few weeks back named Berkeley, and she was the stereotypical dumb blonde.

Moneypenny424

To me, Berkeley is a university or city (or my residential college) and not a girl's first name. 

BlueRidge8

Not a fan.

It would be like naming a child Penn State to me.

AwBeth

Does it have personal meaning to you?  That would make me like it more.  But I'm still not sure. 

quickstepstar

nms. I don't like places for names at all

alohamora

I kind of hate it, sorry.

jason&robin

Keri Marie

I know a Berkley and it's a boys name.

kmv68

mben1119

I know a girl with this name, but her parents spelled it Berkleigh.  I like it.

apc1929

don't care for Berkeley at all!  my mother's mn is jean as well.. would keep that!

HannahO28

mabenner1:

I know a girl with this name, but her parents spelled it Berkleigh.  I like it.

fail. 

quezzo

mabenner1:

I know a girl with this name, but her parents spelled it Berkleigh.  I like it.

This is even worse and it is pretty bad to begin with.  

thatjessie

I know a little girl named this and she's an absolute doll! I wouldn't imagine her with any other name.

sraexx

Sounds a little too trendy for me. While I don't hate it, I think a lot of folks will think it's obnoxious.

crystal959

CTri17

capulet

Not a fan of Berkeley.  It doesn't sound feminine to me at all, plus, having lived there, I can't really imagine it as anything other than the town, about which I have very mixed feelings.

BitsKD13

I like it!  But I also knew a girl named Berkeley who very very smart, outgoing, and an all around a great person.  If you and YH really like the name go with it!

Clerk9

This one's going to be really divisive.  

I kind of like it.  Especially if you had a personal connection (i.e. went to school there, lived there, etc.).  I think that it could really work for a girl with a certain kind of personality (which, of course, you won't be able to foretell).  Confident, smart, stylish, maybe a little tomboyish.  That's what I think of, anyway.

But, just so you know, it's also pretty popular as a dog's name.  (Like teachers develop name aversions, veterinarians do, too!)  

lovemygs

sraexx:

Sounds a little too trendy for me. While I don't hate it, I think a lot of folks will think it's obnoxious.

This.

chankins14

I would love it if my daughter decided to go to Berkley but I woudn't name her that.

manda326

Not my style...

iLikeSloths

Berkeley is terrible.

ycristina84

I actually like the name Berkley, it's one of my guilty pleasures, but I think it's more of a boy's name.