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What do you think of place names? Some names like Brooklyn, Sydney, and Austin are so popular they're barely even associated with the places anymore. But there are some like India, Rome, America, Asia, Melbourne, etc. that are more associated with places.
Do parents have to be from the place (or have heritage from it) for it to be a usable name for them? Do you think people should name their kids after places if they've never actually been there? What do you think are acceptable place names, and which ones are less usable?
Do parents have to be from the place (or have heritage from it) for it to be a usable name for them? Do you think people should name their kids after places if they've never actually been there? What do you think are acceptable place names, and which ones are less usable?
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I'm not very fond of place names, although there are some pretty ones, like Ravenna, Valencia, Siena, Vienne, etc. I don't think you necessarily need to have a connection to the place, but personally I prefer it.
Usable and not usable? Well, some just don't sound like names and some have bad associations. Although Odessa may sound cute, it was the place of horrible pogroms, for example.
Usable and not usable? Well, some just don't sound like names and some have bad associations. Although Odessa may sound cute, it was the place of horrible pogroms, for example.
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I really only like Sydney and Brooklyn as names but I think a lot of others work ok (Dallas, Austin etc)
I don't think the parents have to have a heritage from most place names because as someone has already said some of these names are used so frequently that we don't associate them with the actual places at all.
I don't think the parents have to have a heritage from most place names because as someone has already said some of these names are used so frequently that we don't associate them with the actual places at all.
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Not my cup of tea, except those which exist independelty as names, like Charlotte, Virginia, Georgia, etc. I think it's a bit silly to name your kid London or Brooklyn, especially if you have zero connection to the place. But then the "we named her Florence because that's where she was conceived" grosses me out a little bit, tbh.
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I don't think people should use a place name if they haven't been to that place, mostly because I've been places I thought I would like and I ended up not liking them. Imagine naming your kid, for example, India and then you go to India and you hate the dirt, the chaos, the heat more than the ideal of India you initially thought of and now you can't unthink your feeling.
Its sort of like giving your kid the name of someone famous. I would never give my a name so closely associated and/or only associated with a celebrity. Why? What if they come out as a pedophile, murderer, criminal of some sort? Your child's name will carry around all that baggage until someone else makes the name famous and erasees the previous baggage.
Its sort of like giving your kid the name of someone famous. I would never give my a name so closely associated and/or only associated with a celebrity. Why? What if they come out as a pedophile, murderer, criminal of some sort? Your child's name will carry around all that baggage until someone else makes the name famous and erasees the previous baggage.
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