kingston

[scouty.livejournal.com]

what do you think about the name KINGSTON for a boy ?
do you like it ?

I know gwen´s beautiful boy is named kingston....
thats where I heard it first but I really like this name

maybe as a middle name ?

evan kingston ?


WDYT ?

Comments

[jenufa.livejournal.com]

Really don't like it. Just asks for a nickname of King, and that sounds so sickly pretentious. :(

[shyspy.livejournal.com]

Evan Kingston is great! Love it!

[tunknut.livejournal.com]

It's one of those surname/place names that doesn't seem like a name to me - imagine your child introducing himself, "Hi, I'm Kingston". It just sounds strange. If Kingston were a family name or you were from a town called Kingston or something I'd be OK with it as a middle... I don't think it sounds nice, and copying a celebrity doesn't make it "meaningful" if that makes sense.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Pretentious and ridiculous.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I have to agree. It sounds celebrity-ish and made up, and super super trendy. :(

And it does immediately make me think of Gwen Stefani.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Where I'm from, everyone would laugh and ask if you lived/were from Kingston...

It's okay, but it's bit much to saddle on a person i think.

[kyo-o.livejournal.com]

I live near Kingston, London do it sounds very odd to me.

[luvmecuzimrach.livejournal.com]

LOVE the name Kingston as a first name!! Kingston Evan is cute too. I say go for it =). People who say it's ridiculous are freaking nuts!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I know, I'm nuts for thinking that saddling a kid with an over-the-top, snobby-sounding name like 'Kingston' is a bad idea.

To each his own. :)

[luvmecuzimrach.livejournal.com]

I guess so. You are nuts. It's not "over the top, snobby sounding" at all. And really, what's the problem with having a "snobby" sounding name? I can't picture a stoner with a name like Kingston so that's a plus, right? LOL.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Sure.

[singhappy02.livejournal.com]

Except for the fact that Kingston is the captial of Jamaica. Hi, rastafarian much? Instantly brings up the image of pot in my head.

[mrandmrschippy.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought too.

[luvmecuzimrach.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure it'd do the same for a kindergardener.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I like it. I'm a big Gwen fan so that's probably part of why I don't have a problem with it like I do so many other celeb baby names. I think it does work better as a middle, too... because I dunno... I def. like Evan Kingston though. It has a nice rhythm.

[charlotteattack.livejournal.com]

I like Kingston as a middle name - Evan Kingston sounds so cute!

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I like it, especially as a middle name. I think Evan Kingston sounds great.

It's one of those names that you *could* have gotten from hearing it from a celebrity, but you could easily have thought of it on your own too, and it isn't quite as immediately identified with them. There's a city called Kingston a couple hours from where I live, and I think if I met someone with this as a first or middle name, I would assume his parents were from there or had met there or something.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. Too over the top, and too recognizable as a singer's kid's name...

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Probably works a lot better, for me, as a middle name, but it has nothing to do with snobby or pretentious or anything like that: it's just not my style. At all.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

hate it. but its fine for a middle name, i guess.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

I live there.
So no.
But Evan Kingston does sound alright.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

There's a suburb near where I live called Kingston, and it's known for being a very low-socioeconomic area. So I can't easily shake that. It's also the brand of my USB stick.

If I try to look past all that, I still don't like the image I get of it on a person. For some reason I can only visualise a pimp with lots of chains. I suppose it's ok as a middle name though.

[jyl-mac.livejournal.com]

Love it.