<p>Pratt is in Brooklyn too.</p>
<p>Nice name for a cute little girl: Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Let’s not forget Agnes Scott. </p>
<p>How about Juniata for a girl? Wesleyan (Wes), Hamilton, Amherst.</p>
<p>^^my friend calls her car Juniata…long story</p>
<p>My former next-door neighbors actually named their son Fargo…my family never really understood why!</p>
<p>Some cool boy names:
Urbana Champaign
Irvine Merced Davis
Harvard Yale
West Lafayette
Winston Salem
Brighton Newton
Osaka Kyoto Tokyo
Frank Olin
Johns Hopkins
Syracuse</p>
<p>Some cool girl names:
Claremont McKenna
Mount Holyoke
Morningside Heights
Athens Clarke
Atlanta Georgia
Coral Gables
Rose Hulman
Villa Nova
Ithaca</p>
<p>William Mary
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke?!?!?</p>
<p>Another sophisticated boy’s name: Earlham Rhodes</p>
<p>Can’t believe no one has said it yet: Cal Berkeley.</p>
<p>I knew a guy who graduated Bob Jones U. He called it “B.J.”</p>
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<p>Happens all the time here in the Republic. Yell Austin, Dallas, or Houston at any “Stop and Rob” and prepare to hear “Uhhhhhh…whut?”</p>
<p>I went to Harvard with a guy whose first name was “Harvard.” His best friend at Harvard was a guy whose last name was “Vassar.”</p>
<p>Call him/her Hacks.</p>
<p>The Israeli/“jewish” name is Yael, not Yale </p>
<p>I went to school with a guy whose father was instrumental in writing their states rights. So his name was States Rights Jones. No joke.</p>
<p>Are college town names fitting first names b/c thats where the kids were conceived ? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^^I know someone Jewish named Yale. I just assumed they misspelled Yael. (Which is pronounced Ya-eil, however.) </p>
<p>I just saw in the paper two sisters named Brooklynn and Jersey.</p>
<p>mommusic-- Maybe Yale is the male version of Yael?? LOL</p>
<p>I know a Brooke Lynn. Never thought about her name as Brooklyn… Not sure if that was the intent or not.</p>
<p>^^ Just looked up the meaning of “Yael”. One place said it meant “strength of God”. Another said it meant “mountain goat” :eek:</p>
<p>Male version of Yael was listed as Joel.</p>
<p>college names in our state w/ baby name potential:</p>
<p>Lenoir Rhyne
Wingate
Barton
Gardner Webb
Pfieffer
Lees McCrae
Montreat
Chowan
Brevard
Johnson C. Smith
Livingstone
Shaw
Warren Wilson</p>
<p>I forgot this yesterday. I have a neighbor whose actual name IS Johns Hopkins. He comes by it legitimately – either a great-grandson or great-great. He didn’t go to college there, though.</p>