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

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Holmes
Homer

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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!

Ugh. Pretty soon John will be the only male name left standing.

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Veronica

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Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.

My child has a double name, after two women (not my mother) who essentially raised me. It was my way of honoring their memory. I didn't mean for it to be pretentious, but I think some people view it as such.

What? They will not. They will think you are Southern and/or rural poor.

Haha, no one thinks Bobbie Sue is pretentious.

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Anonymous wrote:Veronica

I love this name and think it's a great choice if you want a familiar name that's not overused. I had a roommate whose middle name was Veronica and it's what she went by because it was so much more recognizable/memorable than her first name. Great name (and not pretentious).

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Anonymous wrote:Eleanor

(I seriously hate this name. Everyone thinks it makes them sound educated. It doesn’t.)

This is my name and I was born in 1984, so well before any trends. Please don’t hate my name! I always liked that it was original. Of course it’s not original anymore, but I hate that it has a pretentious vibe now

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Stephanie
Tiffany

CLAUdia??

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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.

The difference between Catholic working class double names and “I’m better than you” double names is that the former are made up of two first names that honor saints, and the latter are made up of a classic first name plus an old family last name, lest anyone forget their provenance.

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Is this like the "trying too hard" which is called out on this site a lot? Do you mean "trying too hard to sound better than you?"

Bentley
Maximus
Unique

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Anonymous wrote:Eleanor

(I seriously hate this name. Everyone thinks it makes them sound educated. It doesn’t.)

This is my name and I was born in 1984, so well before any trends. Please don’t hate my name! I always liked that it was original. Of course it’s not original anymore, but I hate that it has a pretentious vibe now

It is not pretentious! And yes, it's become very popular for kids recently, but I love that you got it back in '84. I had a close high school friend (born in 1979) who was an Eleanor/Ellie, and I always found her name elegant, not pretentious.

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Anonymous wrote:Eleanor

(I seriously hate this name. Everyone thinks it makes them sound educated. It doesn’t.)

This is my name and I was born in 1984, so well before any trends. Please don’t hate my name! I always liked that it was original. Of course it’s not original anymore, but I hate that it has a pretentious vibe now

It doesn’t have a pretentious vibe, that’s strictly the opinion of the PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this like the "trying too hard" which is called out on this site a lot? Do you mean "trying too hard to sound better than you?"

Bentley
Maximus
Unique

These examples sound very Teen Mom/working class to me...

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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.

The difference between Catholic working class double names and “I’m better than you” double names is that the former are made up of two first names that honor saints, and the latter are made up of a classic first name plus an old family last name, lest anyone forget their provenance.

Examples? Please and thank you.

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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.

The difference between Catholic working class double names and “I’m better than you” double names is that the former are made up of two first names that honor saints, and the latter are made up of a classic first name plus an old family last name, lest anyone forget their provenance.

Examples? Please and thank you.

Lemme think... I live in the southern part of Virginia, so I might see names harkening back to prominent Virginia families of long ago: Mary Carter or Anne Randolph. And woe to the person who mistakenly refers to them as just “Mary” or “Anne”.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this like the "trying too hard" which is called out on this site a lot? Do you mean "trying too hard to sound better than you?"

Bentley
Maximus
Unique

These examples sound very Teen Mom/working class to me...

So then you're looking for names like Rutherford D. Worthington III in which "better than you" means generations of inherited wealth.