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[beepandetch.livejournal.com]

What do you think of the name Islington for a girl?

Do you think she would be saddled with the nickname Izzy?

Comments

[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never heard this used as a name before. It's actually the second half of the town I grew up in, so to hear it as a name is just really, really odd to me. Just my experience, of course :)

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Not a fan. Sounds A. Made up of three random syllables and B. fairly male sounding.

I do like Isla and Isadora...

[samaside.livejournal.com]

It seems like way too much of a mouthful for a girl or a boy. And if you didn't want her to be called Izzy what would you call her? Because, seriously, she'd need some sort of nickname. A lot of people would have trouble with that one.

[korrrrri.livejournal.com]

agreed.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd be apt to pronounce it AYE-ling-ton and would just call her Isla. Hell, I'd just name her Isla in the first place. Islington sounds like a really clumsy place name for a human.

[beepandetch.livejournal.com]

I used to work on Islington Street and liked saying the word when I gave the address. I've always wondered if it would work as a name. I think it sounds pretty out loud. I have no plans naming my future daughter Islington, though.

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

Strongly dislike it. :(

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

I really don't care for it. Isla, Isadora, and even Isabelle, I like. And I don't really see another possibility for nicknames other than Izzy...

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

WAY too surname-y. And it sounds like the parents are trying too hard.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

1) It's awful.
2) She would be LUCKY to have the nickname Izzy with that name.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Lol where I come from Islington is a town where it is well known that tonnes of prostitutes hang out on the street.

That aside I think it's pretty awful.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

It's the street I work on so it's a little weird for me to see it as a name.

[diamond-eyes18.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the name of a town.

I kindofsortof like the nickname Issy for it, but I hate the name in general.

[adriatic-song.livejournal.com]

Oh.. I'd be way more worried about saddling her with the name Islington than with the nickname Izzy. Poor child.

[beaching.livejournal.com]

Not a fan at all. And I'm sure kids would be calling her Izzy.

[xxsoulfuleyesxx.livejournal.com]

I really can't think of any other nn than Izzy...as for the name itself, I can't say i am a fan. I have to agree with all the previous posts...the name sounds like a place...not a person.

[redriotroses.livejournal.com]

Wow. Another part of London name =/ Please don't, can we at least start to pick out the nice parts of London now? Stop going for the run down parts!

[searlait.livejournal.com]

Does Izzie make sense as a nickname for Islington? It looks like it would be pronounced "ey'lington".

I like "ey'lington". "Izzlington" seems awkward.

[ex-londonso.livejournal.com]

Islington is not exactly the nicest part of London and it conjures up images of a grimy tube station, cold streets, that vegetarian 3 pounds all you can eat place, teenage violence, design shops, etc. Please don't. Anyone she meets who'll have been to London (so most Europeans and many Americans) will probably have this in mind immediately.

[hoboheart.livejournal.com]

Islington is a street around here too, it's dirty downtown area :-/