Where in the World

[lilmizmombassa.livejournal.com]

What are some of your favorite place names that you might think of naming a child someday? I have a lot, but so many of them are guilty pleasures, hahah.

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[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

I'm not usually a fan of place names...but I have a friend who has 3 kids: Israel (m,4), Bergen (f, 2) and the newest addition Ireland (f, 2 months)

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Ireland... but I never could (not even Erin) because of my Spanish family having such a hard time pronouncing it (both of them)!

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

I've actually liked "Shively" as a name for a while - it's a city that I live close to :) I also like Georgia, Montana, Cimarron, Asia, and Carlyle.

[lovelymae.livejournal.com]

I like:

Astoria
Londen
Georgia
Charlotte
Iona
Virginia
Alexandria

Its really easy to find place names, but some wouldn't be considered "place names" by a lot of people.

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

vegas. my husband would never agree to this though.

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

as i was driving home i remembered my favorite place names and had to add them - Houston and Austin. I don't know why they slipped my mind!

And as I explained to my husband why I went right to the computer when I came home (to update my list), he added Carolina :)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Well, idk there are a LOT of names that are place names when you think about it. Like there's a Bradley Beach in NJ and several other cities named Bradley. Pretty much every name is the name of a city somewhere.

As far as really well-known place names: Brighton, Charlotte, and Georgia would probably be at the top... but I live in Georgia so I probably won't ever get to use it.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I'll never use any of these, but I like

Florence (but I think it sounds more old-fashioned than like a place name)
Charlotte (near where I'm from so using it would be weird)
Sydney (I don't like the NN Syd)
Georgia (love it but I went to undergrad there and have bad memories)
Savannah (too popular)

Charleston just popped into my head for a boy. I've never thought about that before. I'm not a huge fan of Charles, Charlie or Chuck though so that's probably also a bad idea.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Ireland
Bennett (a road near where I live)
Carolina
Alexandria
Aurora
Caledonia (aside from the connotations that come with it)
Nakina
Paris
Tara
Alexis
Victoria

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

For girls:
Adelaide
Alaska
Alexandria
America
Bree (well, it's a town in Lord of the Rings lol)
Bristol
Britannia
Charlotte
Cheyenne
Dakota
Denali
Devon
Geneva
Georgia
Holland
Kaikoura
Katy
Laramie
Medina
Monaco
Montana
Phoenix
Quincy
Sahara
Savannah
Sedona
Sydney

For boys:
Aden (sorta)
Arizona
Aspen
Brighton
Caspian
Destin
Jackson
Jericho
Kingston
Lennox
Lincoln
Raleigh
Weston
Zealand

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

I like Cheyenne, Savannah, Austin, Dallas, Conway, Adelaide (I didn't know this was a place until I read skittles22088's comment). These are pretty much guilty pleasures and I don't think I'd consider them too much if/when I name a child.

Random fact, there's a singer (well, was, he's retired now I think), named Conway Twitty. It's his stage name and he got it by blindly picking two names from a map (darts or something). At least this is what my dad told me.

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

Well, idk there are a LOT of names that are place names when you think about it.

I never thought of that; that's very true.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Haha, well... I look up all the names I like on Wikipedia and use (disambiguation) to see their associations, most of them have cities connected to them in some way.

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

Augusta
Carolina
Eden
Georgia
Havana
Holland
India
Persia

Cisco
Diego
Houston
Hudson
Jasper
Memphis
Santiago

I'm sure there's more, but that's all I've got for right now...:)

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

I would consider Lovells as a mn for a boy. I would only ever use a place name if it had significance to me. Virginia is our #2 girl's name, but the place is after the name, so it doesn't count.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Lourdes, Odessa and Ravenna are huge guilty plesure names for me. I would never use them, but they do sound pretty!

[kort-ni.livejournal.com]

Adelaide is one of our front runners right now for this baby and I like Charlotte and Georgia too

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Ireland, Bohemia, Alabama for girls. Austin, Indiana and Albany for boys.