Most quintessentially DCUM First Name/Middle Name?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I must be peak DCUM because these are the best names I’ve seen on a thread.

You’re just so used to them, they sound familiar and fine. That’s not the same as “liking” them to most people. You’ve just accepted them like we accept other cultural mainstays. These names are dull. They may be safe. But they’re the equivalent of khakis and a navy blazer.

What clothing do you think people wear in law offices and country clubs?

I go to both, and not that. And the segment that does isn’t classic or was oh, just stuck shopping at BB because it’s easy. It’s very DC. That’s the point.

[Anonymous]

Jack/Jake/Jacob/Jackson
Miles
Eli/Elliot
Max
Henry
Charles/Charlie
Liam

Charlotte
Any version of Katherine/Catherine with a Cate/Katie/nn
Alexandra/Alexa/Lexie
Maybe a few outlier gem names: Ruby/Pearl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Larla obviously

Lololol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must be peak DCUM because these are the best names I’ve seen on a thread.

You’re just so used to them, they sound familiar and fine. That’s not the same as “liking” them to most people. You’ve just accepted them like we accept other cultural mainstays. These names are dull. They may be safe. But they’re the equivalent of khakis and a navy blazer.

What clothing do you think people wear in law offices and country clubs?

I go to both, and not that. And the segment that does isn’t classic or was oh, just stuck shopping at BB because it’s easy. It’s very DC. That’s the point.

So people don't wear navy blazers and khakis at law firms and country clubs, except for the people who do, but they didn't mean to? Sorry you've lost the plot. It's ok to not like classic names but they're classic for a reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must be peak DCUM because these are the best names I’ve seen on a thread.

You’re just so used to them, they sound familiar and fine. That’s not the same as “liking” them to most people. You’ve just accepted them like we accept other cultural mainstays. These names are dull. They may be safe. But they’re the equivalent of khakis and a navy blazer.

What clothing do you think people wear in law offices and country clubs?

I go to both, and not that. And the segment that does isn’t classic or was oh, just stuck shopping at BB because it’s easy. It’s very DC. That’s the point.

So people don't wear navy blazers and khakis at law firms and country clubs, except for the people who do, but they didn't mean to? Sorry you've lost the plot. It's ok to not like classic names but they're classic for a reason.

You’re attaching some intrinsic value to them as “classic” in your definition, though, as you are to khakis and blazers. And there is not. There is just a lack of surprise because they’ve been done over and over. Not even all of these are in fact “classic.” They’re not literary or biblical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Henry James
James Henry
William James
Alexander James
Benjamin Thomas
Caroline Elizabeth
Grace Elizabeth
Eleanor Anne
Elizabeth Anne
Katherine Elizabeth
Charlotte Anne
Margaret Anne

FWIW those are all “Christian names”

and?

And nothing. Just don’t see that that often in DCUM. The Catholics have been left.

Ummm, you do know, Catholics are Christian?

[Anonymous]

Anything British royal family:
Charlotte
Katherine
Henry
George, etc etc

[Anonymous]

I think y'all are wrong about this, as evidenced by some of the comments in the thread so far. I think DCUM used to be lots of middle-aged prepsters, but it's shifted to lots of middle-aged hipsters.

The new quintessential DCUM name is something like Sabine Rose, or Juliet Claire. Something outside the top 100 or so on those popular name lists, vaguely pretentious, but still recognizable as a name. So many posters on here now are obsessed with the idea of giving their daughters (and yes, daughters, it's girl names that seem to drive this for some reason) the perfect, unique, no-one-else-has-it but everybody loves it, name. The most common criticisms of names on the site are: too ugly, too common, too trendy, too boring. So the goal is pretty, uncommon, unique, a little fanciful.

With boys I feel like the quintessential name is Theodore nn Theo or Teddy. I feel like I see it on here constantly and also hear it in the DMV (in lots of different communities and at lots of different SES levels) all the time. Plus in the last few years I've started hearing lots of Thea for a girl as well (maybe on its own or short for Dorothea or Theodora?). I don't get what it is about Theo/a but people around here are obsessed with it.

[Anonymous]

Annika and Elise need to be in there somewhere. About two years ago you couldn't open a thread without seeing Annika recommended like 6 times. Never met one in the wild, but she's the queen of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Aiden Zachary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Larla obviously

Hahahahahaha

[Anonymous]

I know these names have already been nominated, but I vote for Caroline Anne and William/James/Henry in some combination.

[Anonymous]

Eleanor Rose and Henry Mothersmaidenname.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With boys I feel like the quintessential name is Theodore nn Theo or Teddy. I feel like I see it on here constantly and also hear it in the DMV (in lots of different communities and at lots of different SES levels) all the time. Plus in the last few years I've started hearing lots of Thea for a girl as well (maybe on its own or short for Dorothea or Theodora?). I don't get what it is about Theo/a but people around here are obsessed with it.

You got pretty close to my daughter's name.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With boys I feel like the quintessential name is Theodore nn Theo or Teddy. I feel like I see it on here constantly and also hear it in the DMV (in lots of different communities and at lots of different SES levels) all the time. Plus in the last few years I've started hearing lots of Thea for a girl as well (maybe on its own or short for Dorothea or Theodora?). I don't get what it is about Theo/a but people around here are obsessed with it.

You got pretty close to my daughter's name.

Uh, is your daughter's name Thea? Trying to think of a name that is close but not quite... Theia? Althea? Rhea?