Names that scream “I’m better than you!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arabella

Boom.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, names are just names. What screams “I’m better than you!” Are parents who think they are better than you because of their child’s name, a weird subjective competition that has never made any sense to me.

Someone once said (behind my back) that my DS’s name was “f***ing basic.” Imagine talking about a newborn (or his parents!) that way.

A lot of people are deeply insecure and will reach for anything to feel superior.

(Also, my son’s name is Henry, since I know people will ask. I know it’s simple and popular right now, I don’t care, and he’s a goddamn delight, thank you very much)

Totally agree. I have a Henry too and my SIL made some jab about it being a popular name which 1) rude 2) my daughter begged us to name him Henry and it was so sweet, so it’s really special name to us and 3) her daughter is named Emma and was born during the Emma craze, she was like one of 5 Emmas in her class at some point! How could she say anything criticizing popular names??

Anyway, once I get to know people with a name, that name loses all other associations. I know several Eleanors who are just so sweet, an Aspen whose mom is poor AF, etc. Names are just names.

[Anonymous]

Blair - for a boy or a girl
Blaine
Elliot
Theo.
Phillip

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Serena Celia van der Woodsen
Charles Bartholomew Bass
Nathaniel Fitzwilliam Archibald
Blair Cornelia Waldorf

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Any name with a non-standard pronunciation that isn’t intuitive;

-Andrea said like On-DREE-uh

-Lauren = “La WREN”

Jamie = Jah-MEE

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, names are just names. What screams “I’m better than you!” Are parents who think they are better than you because of their child’s name, a weird subjective competition that has never made any sense to me.

Someone once said (behind my back) that my DS’s name was “f***ing basic.” Imagine talking about a newborn (or his parents!) that way.

A lot of people are deeply insecure and will reach for anything to feel superior.

(Also, my son’s name is Henry, since I know people will ask. I know it’s simple and popular right now, I don’t care, and he’s a goddamn delight, thank you very much)

This is the part where you have to tell us the asshole’s kids’ names.

I’m curious too.

Well, unlike that asshole, I don’t make fun of small children. I will tell you that they are both “family names” and that whenever anyone asks about them she says “oh, it’s actually a faaaaaamily name” like she’s related to the Queen of England or something.

She sucks.

In some areas of the US, that’s a cultural tradition. Especially among MC AAs. I dated a Vaughn and went to grad school with a Brooks. Both were the first boy in two generations on the maternal side. Trust me, they are not thinking about you being impressed, they just don’t want the name to die out in the next generation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any name with a non-standard pronunciation that isn’t intuitive;

-Andrea said like On-DREE-uh

-Lauren = “La WREN”

Jamie = Jah-MEE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Stephanie
Tiffany

Claudia maybe. The other two scream I am a better stripper than you.

[Anonymous]

Brooklyn

100% this name is given by people who think they are cool but they are insecure AF.

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What about Dylans and Baileys? Are those names "better than you" names?

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Anonymous wrote:What about Dylans and Baileys? Are those names "better than you" names?

No.

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Superiora

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Stephanie
Tiffany

Claudia maybe. The other two scream I am a better stripper than you.

Since when is Stephanie a stripper name?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, names are just names. What screams “I’m better than you!” Are parents who think they are better than you because of their child’s name, a weird subjective competition that has never made any sense to me.

Someone once said (behind my back) that my DS’s name was “f***ing basic.” Imagine talking about a newborn (or his parents!) that way.

A lot of people are deeply insecure and will reach for anything to feel superior.

(Also, my son’s name is Henry, since I know people will ask. I know it’s simple and popular right now, I don’t care, and he’s a goddamn delight, thank you very much)

This is the part where you have to tell us the asshole’s kids’ names.

I’m curious too.

Well, unlike that asshole, I don’t make fun of small children. I will tell you that they are both “family names” and that whenever anyone asks about them she says “oh, it’s actually a faaaaaamily name” like she’s related to the Queen of England or something.

She sucks.

In some areas of the US, that’s a cultural tradition. Especially among MC AAs. I dated a Vaughn and went to grad school with a Brooks. Both were the first boy in two generations on the maternal side. Trust me, they are not thinking about you being impressed, they just don’t want the name to die out in the next generation.

We gave my kids names we love, which are, yes, family surnames. It's a normal thing to do in the region I'm from, and I love my kids' connection to people we love and to our family's past (I'm a historian, ha). Someone once told me that by giving my kids family names I was perpetuating a class-based system of inequality.

Apparently she thought only rich people give their kids family names? I'm no Thurston Howell III, and really, they're just names.

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PP- non standard pronunciations.

Thought of more; pretentious nicknames for young children

Examples; Elizabeth nicknamed Betty (for a kindergartener), Kitty for Katherine, Hank for Henry,Dottie for Dorothy. Ugly-chic and try hard.