WASP-iest Names

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:James
Edward
Henry
William
George
Elizabeth
Anne
Margaret

Yes!

All the British royalty names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fielding

Leslie Fielding.

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Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

Who goes by Terry. Or Tripp.

Isn't Tripp a Palin name?

Hardly the torchbearer for the wasps.

Trey and Tripp are traditional nicknames for sons who are Thirds. When used correctly, it's WASP-y as all get out (Trey MacDougal).

Using it as a proper name a la Palin, not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:James
Edward
Henry
William
George
Elizabeth
Anne
Margaret

What does it say about me that I like all but one of those names and they're the type of name I'm likely to end up giving my future child? Add Catherine, Victoria, David, Robert, and James and you pretty much have my list.

I think the "WASP-iest" names are something with 3+ middle names, usually involving the mother's maiden name somewhere in there, or a suffix (other than jr). "Something like Annabeth Marie Claire Jennings Smith" or "Winston Philip Edward Smith IV". Extra WASP points if the kid regularly goes by the full name (at school, or camp, or socially, in other words not just around family) OR uses a completely random nickname that has nothing to do with the actual given name but does have a really great story behind it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

Not Bob? Tee hee I love this one. It's a Sandra Boynton book. 15 animals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

Who goes by Terry. Or Tripp.

Isn't Tripp a Palin name?

Hardly the torchbearer for the wasps.

Trey and Tripp are traditional nicknames for sons who are Thirds. When used correctly, it's WASP-y as all get out (Trey MacDougal).

Using it as a proper name a la Palin, not so much.

Ha, yes, Trey MacDougal and Charlotte York MacDougal, the ultimate WASPs (pre-Harry Goldenblatt, that is).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:James
Edward
Henry
William
George
Elizabeth
Anne
Margaret

Yes!

All the British royalty names.

Add:
Catherine
Charles
Caroline
Philip

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WASPs keep using the same few names over and over and within the same generation, so in order to eliminate confusion, a distinctive nickname is bestowed upon the child at birth or soon thereafter that likely will have very little relation to birth name.

So, Catherine Mary Hopkins will be forever known as Ticky, because this is what her younger brother called her when trying to say "sister" as a three year old.

John Warren Calhoun III will be called Warren or "War" because granddad was Jack and Dad's JW.

Cute. Thanks PP!

[Anonymous]

How about Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II.

That's the San Francisco Bomb suspect.

[Anonymous]

The most ridiculous I've heard is a boy who is "the fourth" and is called "Foursy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II.

That's the San Francisco Bomb suspect.

No, not WASP-y. Ryan and Kelly aren't classic names. If anything sounds a little Irish Catholic. Also, it should be Jr. not II (Sr., Jr., III).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

Who goes by Terry. Or Tripp.

Isn't Tripp a Palin name?

Hardly the torchbearer for the wasps.

Trip as in short for triple, aka, the third. I knew a girl in college whose brother was a Trip for that reason. Gag.

[Anonymous]

Barclay

[Anonymous]

I think names like Caroline, Henry and Peter are popular right now and could be WASPy or not. Truly WASPy names for babies today are names like Dorothy, Barbara, Martha, George, Stuart, etc. - out of fashion old-person names that are neither hip nor fresh, but are taken directly from the ancestors the kids are named after.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These days it's hard because many of them have been cooped by the general population. But:

Piper
Cricket (short for Catherine)
Harrison (boy)
Emsy (Short for elizabeth)
Quinn (boy, 5th in his family to have the full moniker, so called Quinn)
Thayer
Camilla (called Millie)
Arthur
John
Lavinia

You must know the same family as me where 3 of the 4 kids have these names, including Quinn as the fifth. They are super-WASPY