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I don't like it, nor most other place names.

Reminds me of the city, or the paper.

I find it difficult to exclude Palin, and I'm not even American!

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I don't like city names for humans in general, and Bristol doesn't fit into the 'sounds for names' category, if one exists! Paris, for instance, could be said to rhyme with Janice and London with Brendan, but Bristol only sounds like pistol. And it used to be a slave port!

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ETA it also rhymes with Crystal, but I don't like Crystal either, though I do prefer it to Bristol.

This message was edited 8/25/2019, 1:15 AM

I think it's really ugly. It reminds me of bristle.

Not a fan.
Bristol, England and Bristol board paper are the first things that come to mind when I hear it.

Terrible

I only have the city and a shoe/clothing company in my mind when I hear this. I don't like it as a name for a person.

A city in the UK, which I don’t like as a first name (:

Gives me close to the same vibes as Madison and Harlow. I don't hate it. It's just so boring. I know it's a town/city but all think of is paper. Plain white (very sturdy and smooth) paper.

It's one of those names I hate, that I can see the appeal of if I try. It's like hearing Laurel and then Yanny ... or seeing two profiles change into a vase. But hideous Bristol comes to me naturally, and I have to strain a little to perceive not-icky Bristol.

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To see it as nice, I have to deliberately set aside heaps of negative word/sound/image associations, and just think of it starting like Briseida and ending like Carol and sounding like Crystal. As if it were just a surnamey namesound, sexless and conceited in the fashionable way, like Harlow or Chandler or Paxton or Kendall. I can see how some people like that kind of thing. But even then it's nms. I hardly ever like Br- anything, and my word associations don't stay set aside.

Reminds me of 'she's a pistol'. I don't like it either.

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If I were looking to use a B town in England, I'd prefer Brighton.

Naming a child after a city always seems tacky to me, though I don't have any conscious justification for that. My guess is that most people naming their kids Bristol have never been to that city and don't know much about it. As far as the sound of the name, I can take it or leave it.

I don't care for it either. It's an awful name even without any associations tied to it. It's ugly, tacky, harsh and looks visual unnatractive as well. Makes the name 'Crystal' seem absolutely golden compared to it.

It's not attractive at all. Bristly and gristly and just ugly. Ugly even for a dog.
And spelling it Brystal, as someone I know of does, doesn't help.