Place names - the location of your conception?!?!

Yeah, my kids are named bed, couch and 2012 toyota tundra

I’m pretty sure Posh and Becks son Brooklyn is named that way

I joke with my husband that our IVF baby would be named ✨petri dish ✨

Guys this is Reddit we don’t shame here. My daughter Back Deck During a Lighting Storm thinks you’re being overly gung-ho too.

My ex-boyfriend has the birth name Curry because his mom's water broke while eating vindaloo at an Indian restaurant.

Thank the good Lord my parents didn't name me Woodbridge.

My parents did. My name is not a city but they used a Spanish name to reflect the language of the place of conception. We're ukrainian canadian 🤨

I worked at a library as a teenager and we had a little girl getting her first library card with the name Montana Blue Sky. Her mom said she was conceived in Montana under the big blue sky. All of us working the circ desk tried to suppress our groans.

not the first time i have heard this, honestly its the first thought i have when i meet someone whose name is primarily a city/town/country. “parents conceived you there huh?”

I know a couple who conceived in Paris and gave their son a VERY clearly French name when they are not from France nor live anywhere near there.

Oh no. I’m naming the baby I’m currently pregnant with a place name. 😂 To make it clear, she was NOT conceived there

I went to school with a girl named after a Greek island where her parents made her. Her parents told all the parents that story at the school. I would have been mortified haha

I was made in Slut... it means the end in Swedish, I do not need that as name.

Ron Howard's kid's middle names are related to the place where they were conceived, which is why Bryce Howard's middle name is Dallas.

My mom figured out my son was conceived in Australia and said I should give him an Aussie name because of it. We didn’t, so to honor his uh… Aussie roots, she sent a lot of koala clothes for him lol. Mortified my mom knows I did the deed at all, can’t imagine a bunch of other people knowing where via child’s name.

I was talking to a friend about this and how weird it was.

For background info, my son is named after the street we live on. When I was pregnant my husband and I couldn't agree on a name and I said, joking, if we didn't have a name, we'd have to name him after the first street we passed on the way to the hospital, but that would probably be our street because most of the time you leave from home. We tossed it around for a while and realized we both really liked the name so it stuck.

My friend pointed out.... so technically.... he's also named after the place he was conceived.

Damn. Ya got me!

My in-laws went on a vacation to try to save their marriage (didn't work) and oopsied my husband into existence. My MIL jokes all the time that, if he were a girl, he would have been named Myrtle Caroline since he was a souvenir from Myrtle Beach. 🙄

We were visiting an aunt in Tucson for a few weeks and during that time my wife discovered she was pregnant with our second child. My aunt now insists we name the kid (dont know gender yet) Sedona, Phoenix, Tucson and there was others. Not to be rude to any one with those names, but nope...

I have a friend who has a not super common place name, think “Dallas”. Any time someone hears her name they tell her they love her name, and ask why she was named that. She proudly says “it’s because I was made in Dallas”. She’s always very excited to share and it usually gets very awkward after that. Love her though, so I just learned to accept that and try not to cringe anytime we meet someone new.

Given that I was born in pretty well the same position in the same room in the same house that I sleep in, I could probably give exact coordinates. "welcome to the family, 51.8N 0.42W!".

Yikes, I hope my baby doesn’t mind being called Edinburgh. It’s a bit of a mouthful though.

Lmaoo this post send me cause I’ve got cousins who are all siblings named, Alaska, Malaysia, Manila and Kingston 😂😂

My sister (and plenty of others) have joked a lot throughout my pregnancy that we should name our baby “Vegas” 😬

It’s the way it’s phrased. It’s not hard to say “we traveled here and loved the city, and it’s a pretty name.” But we don’t need to be sharing our sex lives with random people. 🙈😆

Imagine being named Detroit

My aunt called me “Camaro” for this reason 😂😂

My middle kid will never know how fortunate they are to NOT be Wisconsin Rapids! (The youngest could have been Chicago or Austin so not nearly as bad.) (We were traveling by train and, due to a delay, got a free night and day in Chicago. It happens.)

Once at like 3:00am I saw a new post here about someone finding out they were pregnant after conceiving on their honeymoon in Bora Bora and they were inquiring whether “Bora” was a good name… The comments were not supportive and kept saying how no one wants to know anything about their conception but OP doubled down, saying it meant “first born” and was beautiful.

I couldn’t stop thinking about it and thought it was a cj post and when I searched for it the next morning I couldn’t find anything but I swear it wasn’t a fever dream.

“It was a pretty wild night so we gonna name her either Virginia, NetJet, or bathroom at Teterboro Airport.”

My parents joked about doing that, didn’t need to know that information but lucky me now I do. To recap, I know the place because they joked about wanting to give me that name, they did not actually do it.

So when I found out I was pregnant, I worked the dates back and realized I was pregnant when I rowed at the Head of the Charles Regatta. One of my sons’ (I had twin boys) names is Charles. It helps that it’s a family name, too.

That’s how my daughter “Mum’s House” got her name

My cousin is named Marina Rae because her parents were vacationing at a marina and they saw a sting ray when she was conceived

My poor children would be Biloxi and Midwest City.

This was a joke in Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. Vince’s character’s real name was Orlando, and his brothers were Dallas and Denver. I didn’t realize this was a thing in real life.

Ah yes little Los Angeles, Scranton, and Pikes Peak.

When my friend became unexpectedly pregnant with twins, the joke was they should name them after the intersection they might have been conceived on. For example: 1st and Main.

My sister knew a high school acquaintance who got pregnant and named her son Bentley after where he was conceived...

My friend’s parents had a painting of tulips in their living room because they conceived him while planting some. 😆🌷

“We're going to name her after the place that she was conceived. It was a pretty wild night. So we're going to name her either Virginia, NetJet, or Bathroom at Teterboro Airport”

My name would be Crack House.

My ex had this - not as a first name thankfully, but as a middle.

It also wasn’t the kind of place name that is also a person’s name (eg Georgia), it was pretty obviously a place. But instead of playing it off as “oh that’s where we met” or “oh I just thought it sounded pretty” my ex’s mom straight up told me “oh, that was where he was conceived! We went there on a romantic getaway to celebrate my birthday and well, then he came along!” She also suggested that we book a holiday there someday 🙈

It was super awkward, she didn’t think there was a big deal about telling me the story, but I really didn’t want to picture his parents going at it!!

I was very very nearly named Sunday after Sunday River where I was conceived on my parents’ honeymoon. I wish they’d gone with it tbh I think Sunday would be a really cool name, and the story behind it is romantic imo, not gross. It’s like, I was made from love. Nothing wrong with naming me after where it happened. Why not name your child after somewhere special to you ? And then what’s more special than a beautiful place you went to in newly married bliss ?

They didn’t sit me down & tell me all the details of how they were “doing the nasty” like ? It feels quite juvenile to me to get all worked up when you’re confronted with the fact that your parents at some point - shock horror - had sex. I’ve seen their home video from that trip too & it was sweet. They weren’t screwing on camera. Maybe this is a prudish American thing I’m not getting 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh my God. This reminds me of the time I humiliated myself at a baby shower, because I wasn’t paying attention. The baby in question was being named after the place of his conception, so everyone was asked what their baby would be named if it was named after the place it was conceived. I was zoned out for some reason,(later learned it’s because of ADHD and autism) so when they got to me and asked what I would have named my child, I said “kitchen floor.” There was dead silence.

Yes - I know a Nash who was conceived in Nashville and a Montana conceived in Montana. Absolutely horrible

I met a family with daughters called Valencia and Siena. Valencia was a honeymoon baby conceived in Valencia, which they were open about. They weren't as open about Siena's conception, but they were open about visiting Siena around the time they got pregnant so I assume it was the same story.

I have a close friend that named her kids after the city they lived in at the time of their birth, which has only worked because they've moved states after the birth both times. The names they picked were also like Austin and Charlotte so not totally weird to live in the city with the name, but still kind of weird.

I had a classmate called Martinique, named after the island where she was conceived. Combined with a stereotypical German last name, I always thought her whole name sounded weird, even as a child. (Not quite sure how I found out. I assume her parents told my mum, who in turn decided to tell me.) 

I think just lying and saying "it's because we loved the place" would be better, no need to tell the real story.

Sedona Arizona is like my top place name I think it just sounds so cool, probably isn't everyone's vibe but I love it

I would be named Automobile Unknown Location

Except it was my parents.... Id probably get tragedieghed into Kar Eyedeekay Maybetampa

Bed and Same Bed But Now With A Better Mattress And A Repainted Frame

Well, imagine taking it a step further, realizing Atlanta isn't really a good middle name for your son, so you choose KO because it's the NYSE name for Coca-Cola (based in ATL). And of course, it had to go with older brother's middle name (St.) Louis. Ladies and gentlemen, meet my nephews 🙄 Edited to try to make this make sense

Get over here, Sketchy Cabin

My friend Annette was named for Annette Island, where her parents told her she was conceived.

I think it's not such a bad idea but do you have to say CONCEIVED?! Tell the kid "it's a beautiful place we visited the first year we were married" (or whenever it was) and leave it at that.