s/o; does your name have a y in it and if so, are you low class?

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I like Whitney.

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Anonymous wrote:So when you say names with a "Y" are you talking about the full name having a y, or do nicknames count too...

For example, Elizabeth does not have a y, but "Betty" does...so is a girl named Elizabeth not classy if she goes by Betty...or is she only not classy if her name is actually Betty--on her birth certificate and everything?

I know someone who just named her daughter Betty. As far as I can tell that is her name, not a nickname... Ewww, I feel so bad that in 20 years she will be sidled with Betty for a name.

I have a 100 yo great grandmother named Bette (pronounced Betty), her actual name. I don't see anything wrong with it. Is Bette classier than Betty? Bette Davis comes to mind.

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What about Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Faye Dunaway, Sally Field, Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek, too many to name. I think the propblem is when you take a name like Elizabeth and make it Elyzabeth. Or Jordan and make it Jordyn. The problem is taking perfectly good names, throwing a few unnecessary y's in there and screwing them up. Not to mention the frustration their teachers will have when trying to spell these made up names.

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My exboyfriend's sister's name was Austyn...blab.

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i dont quite understand this post.... its seems a bit judgmental. i mean, i am upper middle and i can easily name my baby "Tiffany" or "Mykelti" (Sister wives anyone?), or even "Aqualykeshia" (i wouldn't but im just saying ) but even if I was extremely low class I could name my kid any name I chose as well. Whether that name be Anna, or Cynthia or Syhniqua. Beyonce and Jay Z definitly are NOT low class (im talking socioeconomic, because im sure someone will have something to say about their "class" in other areas) and they just named their kid "Blue Ivy". I mean this thread makes it seem like when people look for a baby name they are asked about their HHI and then are given a book of acceptable names based off of their economic status.

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Anonymous wrote:My name is Christina but people who don't know me well call me Christine. I hate that. "Christine" sounds like trailer trash. The "a" make ALL the difference.

And what about Khrystyna? OMG.

Christina sounds Italian or Latina to me. A little too frou frou for my personal tastes. Like your sister might be named Maria and you might live in The West Side Story.

Christine sounds Anglo/Irish or American to me.

Christina here. Sorry to dash your preconceptions about my name. Totally Anglo/Germanic. Upper middle class. My sister's name is Gretchen of all things.

But Christina is pretty much a universal (well, at least Western) name, for obvious reasons. It means "Anointed by Christ."

The opposite here - Christine who gets called Christina all the time. I don't mind it that much, because I happen to like both names, but I do correct people.

My name doesn't sound trashy to me, but then I don't hang out at trailer parks, so what do I know. 8)

Of the two, Christine has been the most common variant in the UK and Germany (even France), so I don't agree that Christina is the Anglo-Germanic one.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Mary is a little low class. The first famous Mary gave birth in a barn. You can't really get any lower class than that.

Signed,

Mary

Actually, you can't get a much higher name than that.

I was joking, well about the low class part. My name really is Mary.

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Anonymous wrote:So when you say names with a "Y" are you talking about the full name having a y, or do nicknames count too...

For example, Elizabeth does not have a y, but "Betty" does...so is a girl named Elizabeth not classy if she goes by Betty...or is she only not classy if her name is actually Betty--on her birth certificate and everything?

I know someone who just named her daughter Betty. As far as I can tell that is her name, not a nickname... Ewww, I feel so bad that in 20 years she will be sidled with Betty for a name.

I have a 100 yo great grandmother named Bette (pronounced Betty), her actual name. I don't see anything wrong with it. Is Bette classier than Betty? Bette Davis comes to mind.

I think it is a niche name, and it's unfortunate that parents would subject their child to that. The funky hipster vintage thing only has so much duration and then you are stuck looking at your 12-yo named "Betty" and thinking that maybe it would have been better to name her Elizabeth.

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Anonymous wrote:i dont quite understand this post.... its seems a bit judgmental. i mean, i am upper middle and i can easily name my baby "Tiffany" or "Mykelti" (Sister wives anyone?), or even "Aqualykeshia" (i wouldn't but im just saying ) but even if I was extremely low class I could name my kid any name I chose as well. Whether that name be Anna, or Cynthia or Syhniqua. Beyonce and Jay Z definitly are NOT low class (im talking socioeconomic, because im sure someone will have something to say about their "class" in other areas) and they just named their kid "Blue Ivy". I mean this thread makes it seem like when people look for a baby name they are asked about their HHI and then are given a book of acceptable names based off of their economic status.

Yup, it's absolutely judgmental.

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Anonymous wrote:i dont quite understand this post.... its seems a bit judgmental. i mean, i am upper middle and i can easily name my baby "Tiffany" or "Mykelti" (Sister wives anyone?), or even "Aqualykeshia" (i wouldn't but im just saying ) but even if I was extremely low class I could name my kid any name I chose as well. Whether that name be Anna, or Cynthia or Syhniqua. Beyonce and Jay Z definitly are NOT low class (im talking socioeconomic, because im sure someone will have something to say about their "class" in other areas) and they just named their kid "Blue Ivy". I mean this thread makes it seem like when people look for a baby name they are asked about their HHI and then are given a book of acceptable names based off of their economic status.

Yup, it's absolutely judgmental.

at this point im just wondering what is that ONE appropiate name for each "class" so that everyone can be named that ONE named depending on their class just so we don't get confused and you know... accidentally talk to "trash" lol

(btw im the pp that was talking about names like "Mykelti")

[Anonymous]

I think there's a difference between legitimate names, with long histories that have always had a "Y" -- Mary, Emily, Lydia, Evelyn, Yvette, or Gregory, Zachary, Geoffrey, or Aubrey, and names that are either recently created (Mikeylti or whatever that attrocity was) or have had their spellings altered -- Lauryn, Mykl, Alyzabeth. The latter may be more common in lower income families.

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Mindy. It says, poor Jewish girl born in 1980.

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Anonymous wrote:This might be one of the most asinine threads ever conceived on DCUM.

Carry on.

+1,000,000,000,000

[Anonymous]

Becky- upper middle

[Anonymous]

Harry. Upper class but I like to play strip pool with girls I barely know.