Most pretentious name you've heard?

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How about Sterling?

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Olivier.

Far as I know, the parents are American-raised. No one knows exactly how to pronounce the kid's name, since we are not French, but rather Americans. The kid doesn't know either, since he's 1.5 years old so asking him doesn't help.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting how names can read as trashy or pretentious to different people. Names like Beckett, Ainsley, Remington sound very Teen Mom to me.

I mean, they are Teen Mom trying to be "fancy."

Yeah, actually fancy people name their kids, like, Catherine and John.

non-white people aren't allowed to be fancy I guess

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Wynne
Alden
Kaelan (boy)

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Anonymous wrote:A brief skim through this thread shows that most of you have no idea what "pretentious" means.

Ridiculous does not equal pretentious.
Generic, Christian names do not equal pretentious.

Pretentious is "expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature."

You're welcome.

Like the name Penny ?

Is Penny pretentious? Right now Penelope nn Penny is at the top of our list (after an old family friend of mine who was like a grandmother to me when I was a girl). It feels like a good mix since Penelope is more formal and could be used professionally later in life but Penny feels bright and unassuming to us, the opposite of pretentious.

Just surprised to see it mentioned in this thread and wondering why!

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Anonymous wrote:A brief skim through this thread shows that most of you have no idea what "pretentious" means.

Ridiculous does not equal pretentious.
Generic, Christian names do not equal pretentious.

Pretentious is "expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature."

You're welcome.

Like the name Penny ?

Is Penny pretentious? Right now Penelope nn Penny is at the top of our list (after an old family friend of mine who was like a grandmother to me when I was a girl). It feels like a good mix since Penelope is more formal and could be used professionally later in life but Penny feels bright and unassuming to us, the opposite of pretentious.

Just surprised to see it mentioned in this thread and wondering why!

Penny is lovely and not pretentious.

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Anonymous wrote:Dagny. I just think of Ayn Rand and how the child is being raised to despise the plebes.

I went to elementary school in the 80s with a Dagny and she was the complete opposite of pretentious. Ayn Rand's books were a big thing in CA way back when.

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Palmer.

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Anonymous wrote:Russell

What is pretentious about that? I know a number of people with that name born in the 1930s-1960s.

It’s an old golf dude name.

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Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????

Do you not know any Latin American people? It's a very common latin name.

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Anonymous wrote:Mercedes. Who names their kid that????

It was a name before it was a car, sweetheart.

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Anonymous wrote:Thomas pronounced Toe-mas

So, they are European?

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Prudence and Temperance. It is not 1700.

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Anonymous wrote:Beatrix and her sister Genevieve pronounced ONLY the French pronunciation..and they aren't actually French.

No way ! That is hysterical

Shouldn't the other girl have been Beatrice if they were going full Frenchy on the Genevieve? Beatrix makes me think of Beatrix Potter.

Yeah I thought it was weird then they started talking super pretentiously about it so I stopped listening.

Ok, please explain to me how the French pronunciation differs from the America English one? I speak French (and British English) and am not aware of a difference, for either name.

Jen-ev-veev vs John-vee-ev

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose middle name is Aloysius (pronounced al-oh-ish-us) Took us 15 years to find out what the A stands for.

I know someone whose child's FIRST NAME is this.