Most pretentious name you've heard?

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Juliet.

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Juliet was ranked #238 last year, plus Juliette was ranked #295.

(And Anastasia was ranked #257! I had no idea. DCUM is turning me into a more informed person.)

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Anonymous wrote:If you've been following this thread, pretty much any Southern naming traditions are viewed as pretentious or trashy on DCUM. Ignore it. Don't take advice from Jersey Shore wannabes.

But you have no stereotyping or class issues, PP. None. (And you weirdly assume that everyone here is a "Jersey Shore wannabe"? Whoosh to your reading skills, lady.)

I like Hutchings, although I think it would be misheard as Hutchens or Hitchens a lot.

Just so you know, although I've been accused of being hilariously pretentious on this thread, I am the person who mentioned "Hutchings" and I am not the person who called anyone a "Jersey Shore Wannabe", because that would be rude, I am a southerner with good breeding and I do not say "bless your heart".

As a many generation southerner from a very long line of people with recycled given and sur- names, I disagree that this practice, in and of itself, is pretentious - it's not an affectation I adopted in order to have some pretense to a background I don't have - I literally didn't ask for it and it is my actual background. That doesn't make me a better or more worthy person than anyone else from any other background. It does mean that I'm not being "pretentious" when I (re)use what are really my family names.

Pretension is putting on airs - adopting superficial totems of another in order to try to claim "belonging". It is pretentious when white boys from Chevy Chase adopt hip-hop names and talk like they are from east of the park (or east of the Anacostia). It's pretentious when manassaholes put brick gateposts up out in front of their modular unit and name their kids Carrington.

I mentioned a few names I really like, but would never give my child, because they would be a pretension - for example, suggesting French heritage. I'm a francophile and I think they're great names, but I'm not of French descent.

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You claim to be of good breeding and not rude.

Then you use the term manassholes.

Okie dokey then

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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.

I know a King. And several Princesses.

I know a LaPrincess ...

I once had two coworkers named Princess and Queen.

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I went to school with a several girls who had very traditional first names (generally Mary or Elizabeth ) but who went by their middle names, which included Whitfield, Wimberly, Sanborn & Smythe (Whitfield always made me think of the character Whitley from "A Different World").

I also knew a guy whose middle name was Coddington who went by "Coddy".

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Anonymous wrote:I went to school with a several girls who had very traditional first names (generally Mary or Elizabeth ) but who went by their middle names, which included Whitfield, Wimberly, Sanborn & Smythe (Whitfield always made me think of the character Whitley from "A Different World").

I also knew a guy whose middle name was Coddington who went by "Coddy".

Whitfield was the last name of MJF's alter ego character in "Secret of My Success" - it was just on TV this morning. Love that movie. His actual name in the movie was Brantley - that was fairly pretentious.

OK, so this isn't just my friend who did this with her kid (Normal First, Go by Pretentious Middle). It is done in some circles.

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Anonymous wrote:St John (pronounced stin-gin)
Philada

If they pronounced it Stin-gin, they were mispronouncing it. It's Sin-jin.

Also, are you sure it wasn't Phyllida?

PP here. You've correct, it's pronounced Sin Jin.

But they do spell it Philada. Father is a literature professor

This one takes the cake. Sin-jin indeed.
How do they pronounce Philada-- Fellata?

St. John (Sin-jin) is a pretty old British name. It might be pretentious, but "sin-jin" is the correct way to say it.

I know a teenage girl named Cynjen (also pronounced Sin-jin). Her parents chose that name because they wanted to combine Cynthia & Jennifer & thought they were creating a new name, not misspelling an old one. They were very confused when a friend from church, having never seen their daughter's name written out, sent them a Christmas card addressed to "Larlo, Larla & St. John."

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just calling it as I see it, you twit. That phrase IS bitchy and we all know it. I've been in on conversations with people laughing behind someone's back who they basically brushed off using that phrase. I don't in any way think using code words for "you're an idiot" as "my mama taught me manners"

Manners is using please and thank you. Manners isn't putting on airs and pretending to be nice when underneath it all, you are looking down on someone.

But, whatever, go back to your daughters of the confederacy meeting and keep complaining about us northerners and our lack of "manners". Nice theory about autism btw-so very gentile of you ;p

You're very angry and lack a sense of humor about yourself.

Why is that?

I agree with pp. some of the rudest people I've met were Southerners. Cut the nonsense.

Yes, but generally only behind someone's back. I sadly spent most of high school and all of undergrad there. Ugh. No I won't even live south of the beltway.

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Breck & Ridge (brothers)

Holt

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Banks.

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Anonymous wrote:Pendleton, a girl

I know a woman named Pennington. She's called Penn. By choice.

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Jermajesty

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Like Breckenridge? Ouch.

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Holt

Skiers from Colorado?