WASP-iest Names

[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

My MIL's family is very WASPY and they have 5 living Elizabeth's who are first cousins or closer. They are Betts and Buffy and Bits and Ellie and Liz, respectively

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

Not Bob?

[Anonymous]

I seem to know a lot of WASPs and their kids names include:

Tate
Davis
Caroline
Hadley
Sebastian
Mimi (short for Mary)
Finn
Eliza
Scarlett
Victoria

[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.

Plain’s kids are Track and Trig, possibly the least WASP-iest names ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III

Who goes by Terry. Or Tripp.

Tripp is white trash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harrison is NOT a Waspy name. I live in NYC, and I am Jewish, and I know 3 or 4 Harrison Jewish baby boys. Go by "Harry." Not Waspy. at least anymore.

I find most Wasps actually use very classic names- William, Katherine, Benjamin, Elizabeth, etc.

+1

[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.

It’s cripplingly embarrassing for everyone else who has to then call an adult by these horrible nicknames.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I seem to know a lot of WASPs and their kids names include:

Tate
Davis
Caroline
Hadley
Sebastian
Mimi (short for Mary)
Finn
Eliza
Scarlett
Victoria

Hadley is trashy.

[Anonymous]

Hadlee might be trashy but the former is a surname and fits the WASP-y trend of non-gender specific names that go well with Anglo-Saxon last names

[Anonymous]

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

Peter J.J. Rabbit, III

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I seem to know a lot of WASPs and their kids names include:

Tate
Davis
Caroline
Hadley
Sebastian
Mimi (short for Mary)
Finn
Eliza
Scarlett
Victoria

Hadley is trashy.

Most of these names are super trendy, not waspy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I seem to know a lot of WASPs and their kids names include:

Tate
Davis
Caroline
Hadley
Sebastian
Mimi (short for Mary)
Finn
Eliza
Scarlett
Victoria

Hadley is trashy.

Most of these names are super trendy, not waspy.

+1

These are mostly what a middle class midwesterner *thinks* WASPs name their kids. They hear a name like Hadley or Sloane and think it sounds high society.

The people saying WASPs give their kids old family names that get reused over and over and then they get some stupid nickname like Bitsy or Chip to distinguish them are on the right track. Some of the WASPs I know are named Marge (nn for Margaret), Tripp (a John III), and Nene (somehow short for Vivienne, named for grandmother). Yes, a white, WASPy middle aged lady named Nene. WASPs are very weird about names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

My MIL's family is very WASPY and they have 5 living Elizabeth's who are first cousins or closer. They are Betts and Buffy and Bits and Ellie and Liz, respectively

+1. Same old names like Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, Dorothy, Barbara will have cutesy nicknames to make them distinguishable and palatable.

[Anonymous]

Save names reused with variations. If Charles Henry keeps repeating, someone could go by Charlie, another by Chuck, Henry, Harry, Chad, Chas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I seem to know a lot of WASPs and their kids names include:

Tate
Davis
Caroline
Hadley
Sebastian
Mimi (short for Mary)
Finn
Eliza
Scarlett
Victoria

Hadley is trashy.

Hadley was one of Hemingway’s wives. It’s not new.