now I want a preppy girl's thread.

[Anonymous]

NOT MAYA

Preppy (Imo)
* Caroline
* Hadley
* Caitlin
* McKenna
* Mackenzie
*Catherine
* Claire
* Delaney
* Mollie
* Charlotte (Sex & The City!)

[Anonymous]

Ryan
Anna

[Anonymous]

Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy

[Anonymous]

Oh, Delaney isn't either...Molly is OK with a Y

[Anonymous]

Josephine, Evelyn, Amelia, Georgette

[Anonymous]

Ellie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy

The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.

[Anonymous]

Grace, Claire, Elizabeth (with nickname), Margaret (with nickname), India (cab be preppy if you are southern), Emily, Alison, Catherine (Kate), Sarah.

[Anonymous]

In my mothers generation of our extended family we have quite a few nicknames, family names were used & reused. Khaki (Carolyn), Kitty (Katherine) , Bunny (Judith) , Betty (Carolyn), Babs (Barbra)

I know this is a girls thread but my favorite boys preppy names are first names that are a mother or grandmothers maiden name ex Fisher, Miller, Davis, Smith, Powell

[Anonymous]

I knew an older lady called Pussy (Elizabeth), sadly that nickname seems to have fallen out of fashion, but Libbie or Betsy might work.

[Anonymous]

Are these East Coast old money or Southern?

What about Millicent? Is that too old lady?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew an older lady called Pussy (Elizabeth), sadly that nickname seems to have fallen out of fashion, but Libbie or Betsy might work.

Was she American? I think I would have been forced to call her ma'am exclusively.

[Anonymous]

New England style

Abigail
Lydia
Hanna

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy

The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.

Totally agree. There is a definitional problem here -- some people are thinking preppy as in old money, WASPy, prep school (i.e., the original definition). Then I think other people are thinking preppy like Abercrombie and Fitch or, like, nouveau riche Upper East Side kids. Fair enough, maybe the definition has expanded.

When I think of "preppy" names, I think of the classic family names other people have listed -- Patricia, Catherine, Caroline, Elizabeth, Virginia -- that maybe come with goofy nicknames like Pitty or Khaki or Bitsy or something. That's what I associate with old money, horsey set, prep school preppy.

But names like Mackenzie and Delaney and Preston have a faux gravitas to them that just rings false to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy

The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.

Totally agree. There is a definitional problem here -- some people are thinking preppy as in old money, WASPy, prep school (i.e., the original definition). Then I think other people are thinking preppy like Abercrombie and Fitch or, like, nouveau riche Upper East Side kids. Fair enough, maybe the definition has expanded.

When I think of "preppy" names, I think of the classic family names other people have listed -- Patricia, Catherine, Caroline, Elizabeth, Virginia -- that maybe come with goofy nicknames like Pitty or Khaki or Bitsy or something. That's what I associate with old money, horsey set, prep school preppy.

But names like Mackenzie and Delaney and Preston have a faux gravitas to them that just rings false to me.

Absolutely.

(and Bitsy is my very favorite nickname for Elizabeth )