WASP-iest Names

[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.

Spot on.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It says you're a typical DCUMer. DCUM is status obsessed and loves WASPy-sounding names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fielding

If this is the child's middle name but she goes by it instead of her very normal given first name, we might know the same person.

She doesn't live in DC though. Mom (very much NOT from a waspy background) married into an old virginia country club family.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I knew both a Tripp and a Quatro in high school.

[Anonymous]

Pookie (for Priscilla)

Bud (for Bayard)

(these are pals from bright college days)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fielding

If this is the child's middle name but she goes by it instead of her very normal given first name, we might know the same person.

She doesn't live in DC though. Mom (very much NOT from a waspy background) married into an old virginia country club family.

Nope, this is a guy...but it's his first name.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Tripp is a nickname for the Third. Palin named her kid Tripp, which is not at all Waspy. But naming your kid John Harold Alexander III and calling him Tripp is super-waspy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wasps tend to name their kids really classic British names. So perhaps you just happen to like classic British names.

[Anonymous]

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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

Ha! I suspect we do!

Is there also a Dixon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are some of the WASP-iest names you've ever heard?

Wells, they controlled water so they controlled money.

[Anonymous]

Blaire
Muffy

[Anonymous]

Clifford

[Anonymous]

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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.

Tripp is a nickname for the Third. Palin named her kid Tripp, which is not at all Waspy. But naming your kid John Harold Alexander III and calling him Tripp is super-waspy.

100%

[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

Oh yeah, anyone named John is surely wealthy lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

15 animals!! That takes me back….