Names that scream “I’m better than you!”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maximus
Roosevelt
Thurgood
Benjamin
Wilson
Ovaltine

Ovaltine? Like the milk flavouring product?

I threw it in there just for kicks. It has a pompous ring to it, yes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.

I have a double name. Hyphenated. I didn't choose it.

Well, nobody chooses their name. And people with double names aren’t bad. But it can sometimes (not always) be very much a class signifier for the parents.

Funny, to me it’s very Catholic working-class, but that just shows my own bias.

I'm with you on that. I also think of it as a Catholic working-class thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trevor, Kent, Muffy.. basically any country club-sounding name.

Trevor and Kent have basically hit the Freakonomics bottom of the barrel where they would have been country club names in the 80's, but they're trailer park now. Muffy is a nickname that's historically very WASP, but almost all of them are 60+ at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP- non standard pronunciations.

Thought of more; pretentious nicknames for young children

Examples; Elizabeth nicknamed Betty (for a kindergartener), Kitty for Katherine, Hank for Henry,Dottie for Dorothy. Ugly-chic and try hard.

I know someone with a Dottie and a Betty. They’re impossibly DC hip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.

I have a double name. Hyphenated. I didn't choose it.

Well, nobody chooses their name. And people with double names aren’t bad. But it can sometimes (not always) be very much a class signifier for the parents.

Funny, to me it’s very Catholic working-class, but that just shows my own bias.

I'm with you on that. I also think of it as a Catholic working-class thing.

When I hear double names my mind automatically thinks Bible Belt. It feels very southern, but I can also see the Catholic working class angle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"

Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German

You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.

If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.

So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'

+1. Von in Germany is a fairly good indicator of a descendant of noble background. But there are exceptions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"

Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German

You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.

If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.

So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'

Don't you mean to say that some German nobles had von in front of their last name.
It is just a name, not a sign of nobility, never was.
Battenberg was renamed Mountbatten. BRM changed their last name to Windsor to cover up their German heritage during ww1

What I did say means essentially the same thing: the 'von' 'generally means the person is descended from nobility'. Or, as you said, 'some German nobles had von in front of their last name'.

I live in Germany. I know what I am talking about here.

Do you?
The van/von means from. Usually a place name, sometimes not.
It is so common, there are so many variants and the people are not Euroopan royalty or nobles. Most likely villagers, peasantry

No. Von is different than Van, which is Dutch. Even Van Beethoven’s family were descended from Dutch.

Von typically means you are from a certain place that you owned and that was a major part of royalty - you basically owned a giant estate of land granted by the king.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"

Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German

You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.

If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.

So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'

Don't you mean to say that some German nobles had von in front of their last name.
It is just a name, not a sign of nobility, never was.
Battenberg was renamed Mountbatten. BRM changed their last name to Windsor to cover up their German heritage during ww1

What I did say means essentially the same thing: the 'von' 'generally means the person is descended from nobility'. Or, as you said, 'some German nobles had von in front of their last name'.

I live in Germany. I know what I am talking about here.

Do you?
The van/von means from. Usually a place name, sometimes not.
It is so common, there are so many variants and the people are not Euroopan royalty or nobles. Most likely villagers, peasantry

No. 'Von' in front of a name is not a sign of people who are/were 'most likely villagers, peasantry.' It is a sign that a person's family was once from a castled estate or large region they owned or controlled. Hence, it is a sign that someone is from a family that were once nobility.

Like I said, I live in Germany. I am actually sitting in my house here in Germany now. I've known people who had 'von' in front of their surname, and every one of them was descended from nobility. The 'von' is NOT associated with 'villagers/peasantry', but noble connections/roots, and this is something universally understood here in Germany. I'm am 100% sure that you are wrong here.

[Anonymous]

This thread reminds me why I don’t want to name my son Larlo V, even though I’m married to Larlo IV.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.

I have a double name. Hyphenated. I didn't choose it.

Well, nobody chooses their name. And people with double names aren’t bad. But it can sometimes (not always) be very much a class signifier for the parents.

Funny, to me it’s very Catholic working-class, but that just shows my own bias.

I'm with you on that. I also think of it as a Catholic working-class thing.

When I hear double names my mind automatically thinks Bible Belt. It feels very southern, but I can also see the Catholic working class angle.

Anna-Grace, Emma-Kate, Sarah Mae, Grace-Ann...those all scream southern Bible Belt to me. I think there are a good number of Mary Xs in the south too. But as far as Catholics go and double names go I only think of the Mary names (working class or otherwise) as the double names that Catholics will use- grew up with many a Mary Bridget, Mary Margaret, Mary Kate, Mary Grace etc. in my highly Irish Catholic Boston suburb. Which was mostly middle class. But I don’t remember a single other double name besides those that contained Mary. I did have an Ellen Mary in my high school class...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teddy is fine. Theodore and Theo are pretentious.

No way! Teddy is at the country club wearing boat shoes with a sweater draped over his shoulders. Theo is the coolest Huxtable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"

Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German

You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.

If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.

So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'

Don't you mean to say that some German nobles had von in front of their last name.
It is just a name, not a sign of nobility, never was.
Battenberg was renamed Mountbatten. BRM changed their last name to Windsor to cover up their German heritage during ww1

What I did say means essentially the same thing: the 'von' 'generally means the person is descended from nobility'. Or, as you said, 'some German nobles had von in front of their last name'.

I live in Germany. I know what I am talking about here.

Do you?
The van/von means from. Usually a place name, sometimes not.
It is so common, there are so many variants and the people are not Euroopan royalty or nobles. Most likely villagers, peasantry

No. 'Von' in front of a name is not a sign of people who are/were 'most likely villagers, peasantry.' It is a sign that a person's family was once from a castled estate or large region they owned or controlled. Hence, it is a sign that someone is from a family that were once nobility.

Like I said, I live in Germany. I am actually sitting in my house here in Germany now. I've known people who had 'von' in front of their surname, and every one of them was descended from nobility. The 'von' is NOT associated with 'villagers/peasantry', but noble connections/roots, and this is something universally understood here in Germany. I'm am 100% sure that you are wrong here.

The PP who lives in Germany is 100% correct. Von in Germany is indicative of a noble heritage.

"In Deutschland gilt die Präposition von in Familiennamen als Zeichen für einen adligen Ursprung." Translation: In Germany the preposition "von" is a sign of a noble heritage"

https://gfds.de/von-in-familiennamen/#:~:text=%5BF%5D%20In%20Deutschland%20gilt%20die,Zeichen%20f%C3%BCr%20einen%20adligen%20Ursprung.


There is still nobility in Germany, most Americans just don't realize it.

Hubertus Fürst Fugger-Babenhausen von der Lilie

Haus Hohenzollern, the line Brandenburg-Preussen.

On and on, actually.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Boys names for girls... Campbell, Collins, Stuart

+1! Obnoxious

Haha, I adore these names. And lots of other boy names for girls, like Brooks, James, Schuyler, Michael, Fielding, Parker, Sayer, Conway, etc. Love them all, almost makes me wish I was having a girl!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Arabella

Why?

Not the PP, but I sort of feel like names of 4 syllables are asking a lot of people who have to say it out loud.

???

My kid has a four-syllable name (not mentioned here) and...it's really not a burden to say out loud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maximus
Roosevelt
Thurgood
Benjamin
Wilson
Ovaltine

Ovaltine? Like the milk flavouring product?

I thought it was autocorrect for Oliver