Place names!

[breezy-boo.livejournal.com]

What do you like of naming your baby after a place? (these are not necessarily all names i like)
Girls:
Paris (did like until paris hilton got famous)
Montana
Savannah
Victoria
Ireland
India
China
Alberta (yes I've heard of someone called this)
Asia
Virginia
London
Athena
Nevada
Capri
Arcadia
Florence (I like it actually)

Boys:
Austin
Houston
Dallas
Hudson (which i like)
York
Paxton
Everest
Denver
Rome

Anyways that is all I can come up with now... feel free to add more!!!

Comments

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I once met a Louisiana and an India :)
the weirdest part was they were both 100% italian!

I have a cousin named Asia (AHZ-yah).

And I wanted to add Georgia.

I love place names! my favorite ones are Savannah and Austin.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Victoria
Hudson

I hate place names in general, but I would use either of those.

Alberta is actually a quite common name among an older age group. I know five women named this, all 40+, mostly in their fifties/sixties.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

Alberta's not all that strange; I see it as a fem. form of Albert before I think of the place. :p Anyway, I like Alberta, Victoria, Florence, and Athena for girls, and all but Dallas, York, and Rome for boys.

I like/would consider using

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Savannah
Virginia
Athena

Charlotte
Daytona
Carolina


Boys:
Austin

Dakota

[http://users.livejournal.com/__recidivist/]

I like Georgia, Savannah, and Virginia. My daughter's middle name will definitely be Virginia.

[aimeewins.livejournal.com]

don't forget Topanga (like from Boy Meets World) and Torrance (as in Bring It On), both cities in California. :)

[aqualectra.livejournal.com]

Sydney
Adelaide
London

[atouria.livejournal.com]

I like:

Victoria
India
Athena (this is the only one I would consider using)

Austin
Hudson
Paxton

[a-minor-third.livejournal.com]

I agree with the Paris one. What a shame...

[arbus.livejournal.com]

the boy likes montana, which makes smoke come out of my ears. seriously. yuck.

our dogs name is virginia.

indiana is a HUGE guilty pleasure for me. we have settled on giving the name to the next dog.

i also love hudson, but live too close to the hudson river in new york to actually use it.

i like the name georgia a lot. and india, but imo, that would be ridiculous on a red haired girl.

york makes me laugh. all i can see is the yappy yorkie dogs.

[turtle-dove-1.livejournal.com]

Savannah (Like it but won't use it.)
Victoria (I like the nn Tori)
Ireland (Except i would always want to call her Erin because that *apparently* is the old name for Ireland.)
India (Reminds me of Gone with the Wind)
London (Wouldn't use, except for a middle name in a stretch.)
Athena (I used to hate this but it is growing on me... maybe a middle name as i can't think of a good nn.)

Austin (my gp for a girl because of that blake Shelton song.)
Hudson (I used to love this name and then i forgot about it.)

I knew a girl named Asia... except they spelled it Aja. Yep, true that.

[turtle-dove-1.livejournal.com]

Also Charlotte and Cheyenne and Helena.
And i have always thought Cleveland would make a cool middle name for a boy. How mislead i have been...

[poutyshorty.livejournal.com]

My cousin's son is named Vegas. Yes, she loves Las Vegas xD

I thought it was weird the first time I heard it, but now I love it.

[murderprotocol.livejournal.com]

From this list, I like Savannah, Victoria, India, Arcadia (love this!), Austin and Hudson.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who hates every name that is a place name. In the middle of class once, I just started listing so many off to her and she hated them all. I don't know what it is, maybe a principle or something.

There are place names I like. I don't really see anything wrong with them. Off that list there, I like Ireland and Austin, but I like the names Georgia and Alabama as well.

[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

I know someone named Alberta, and she has a daughter named Victoria. I'm Canadian, and a lot of people used to tease Victoria, asking her if her father's name was Saskatchewan or something.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Generally, I'm not too fond of place names, but Florence has been a favorite since I was 13.

I also like Lourdes, London, Ravenna & Odessa, but they're guilty pleasures, not something I'd actually name a kid.

I met a little girl called Roma once, and a relatively common girl's name here is Romee (Roe-may), so 'Rome' seems very feminine to me.

[starfish11.livejournal.com]

My husband is Troy, and one of our sons is Jericho- ancient cities have some good names!

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

I only like Virginia and Georgia.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

Georgia's my favorite. Victoria and Charlotte are also on my list. Adelaide and Virginia are very pretty, and Indiana is a guilty pleasure (probably because I lived there for seven years and absolutely loved it).

[seksimaggie.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but I always hate place names.

Also, the name Mason seems to be fairly popular suddenly the last few years, and it's this crappy little town near where I live and I just can't understand why people around here use that name.

[illsmileforyou.livejournal.com]

For girl "place" names, I like:

Brooke Lynne
Georgia
Charlotte
Virginia
Rochelle


For boy-ish "place" names, we named a litter of kittens:
Juneau
Homer
Kenai

(All cities in Alaska)

I don't know that I'd ever name a kid those names, though. It suits the cats.

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I love place names. Hudson is great, I'd never heard of that one before. (Probably because I live by the Hudson River!)

Dayton is cute, that one just came to me.

Oh and I know a dog named Chicago. And I promise not to edit this comment again! ;)

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

Roma is cute. :) I like London, too.

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Montana
Savannah
Ireland
Asia
Charlotte
Adelaide
Cheyenne
Sydney
Torrance

Boys:
Indiana
Hudson
Paxton
Everest
Rome
London