Most pretentious name you've heard?

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Anonymous wrote:Pendleton, a girl

Know her too (probably, how many kids have that name?)! Super cute kid. I hope it's a family name.

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Anonymous wrote:Sebastian.

Perfectly good name, not pretentious.

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Anonymous wrote:Prince

Agreed, but it is funny that we don't bat an eye at Rex.
Seems we are more tolerant of these types of pretentious names when they are in a different language. We'd be all over a person who name their kid King.

Yup. I know two grown-up Rexes.

Rex Ryan, NY Jets coach (former)

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Anonymous wrote:Carrington

+1. I wonder if we know the same person...

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Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????

Uhhh. . .anyone from a spanish speaking country?? I've known a few people named Mercedes and they aren't at all pretentious, and all of them were from Spain or South America.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose middle name is Aloysius (pronounced al-oh-ish-us) Took us 15 years to find out what the A stands for.

It's Theo Huxtable's middle name.

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Antigone
Phineaus

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Reeves
Paris

[Anonymous]

Sebastian is pretentious for an American.

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Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????

Aw, I know an 11-yo Mercedes and she is delightful. A bit kooky, down to earth, and heart of gold.

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Thessaly wins.

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Anonymous wrote:Sebastian is pretentious for an American.

I have to agree with this.

[Anonymous]

Met a Phaedra this week. Cannot decide if it is pretentious or not

[Anonymous]

based on a post from another board, southerners give their girls hideous pretentious names.

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Anonymous wrote:based on a post from another board, southerners give their girls hideous pretentious names.

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