People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Marijuana Pepsi did a great thesis on judgement on names.

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Anonymous wrote:For context, a teacher in HS was completely against the name Lisa. She told us it was trashy. There were three girls named Lisa in our class (it was the late 80s). She refused to call any of the girls Lisa. She called all of them Elizabeth, even the girl whose name was not a derivative of Elizabeth.

She also thought Susan was trashy and completely flew off the rails when a student pointed out the Biblical origins.

There are other girls’ names she thought were trashy (Jamie, Karen), that we don’t blink at today. Trashy is in the eye of the beholder.

But technically Brooklyn isn't actually a name for a person. The names you mentioned are real names for humans so I really don't think it's comparable.

Brooklyn is absolutely a name for a person, as evidenced by the fact that lots of people have the name. That's how something becomes a name. Furthermore, using place names for people, and creating names by putting together two other names (e.g. Anne-Marie) have long histories within American culture.

I can name my kid fireplace if I want. Or plate. Or France. It doesn't make it a name for a person. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.

Hon, you don't get to decide what is or isn't "a name for a person".

I'd be curious how many of the people bashing the name Brooklyn have kids (not "dc"... if we're talking about real words etc) with names like Kaiden, Brayden, Jayedeyn etc

I seriously doubt any. Those “names” are worse than Brooklyn.

[Anonymous]

Apple < Brooklyn

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Anonymous wrote:Aspirational white trash name. Dumb trendy. Madison used to be the Brooklyn.

+1 classy people do not give their children these names.

How do you measure class based on someone giving their child these names? I know quite a few people who have used both these names for no other reason than that they liked the sound of them. They are all highly educated, have great jobs(I know an architect and an engineer that both have a child named Brooklyn and my own pediatrician has a girl named Madison), are well liked and kind. So how are these people not classy? These are just common names now.

Names have always been a signifier of class and status. Always. Last names indicate both your social class, and/or profession, in almost every country around the world.

First name choices are both a measure of class AND taste. But I don't think anyone can successfully argue that the name Brooklyn is anything but low class, I don't care how rich you are. There are plenty of rich white trash out there.

Naming your kids after streets/towns/cars/colleges just because you "like the sound of it" is always 100% a bad decision. The same way it is always a bad idea to buy a green car. Green is the color that changes the most with trends. Remember all those hunter green sofas and avocado green refrigerators. Trends. what seems like a good idea now is going to seem dated and irrelevant in 20 years. Names identify you forever and serve as the first level of identification of your social position. Parents who chose trendy nonsense names have bad taste.

Of course we all know wonderful people who have shitty names, but as a parent, why would you levy that burden on your kid? They just have to work that much harder to prove they aren't a stripper.

O arbiter of taste and class, what are your childrens' names, pray tell?

Also, if everyone were to choose from a list of names deemed appropriate (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law), the names you have selected as a "measure of class and taste" would no longer hold such esteem as a "first level identification of your social position" because they would become - gasp - common. So perhaps it's best to live and let live, and perhaps be surprised when Madisyn is not the stripper you presumed. Or maybe she is, and she's a good person anyway, and you're the shitty one.

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There is a family at our pool with kids named Berkeley and Langley.

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One of the OBs at GW is names Princess. She seems to be doing alright. . .

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I thought this peaked a while back after Brooklyn Beckham. Heck, he is already in college.

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I know a 40 year old woman named Brooke Lynne that goes by Brooklyn.

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Anonymous wrote:Aspirational white trash name. Dumb trendy. Madison used to be the Brooklyn.

+1 classy people do not give their children these names.

How do you measure class based on someone giving their child these names? I know quite a few people who have used both these names for no other reason than that they liked the sound of them. They are all highly educated, have great jobs(I know an architect and an engineer that both have a child named Brooklyn and my own pediatrician has a girl named Madison), are well liked and kind. So how are these people not classy? These are just common names now.

Names have always been a signifier of class and status. Always. Last names indicate both your social class, and/or profession, in almost every country around the world.

First name choices are both a measure of class AND taste. But I don't think anyone can successfully argue that the name Brooklyn is anything but low class, I don't care how rich you are. There are plenty of rich white trash out there.

Naming your kids after streets/towns/cars/colleges just because you "like the sound of it" is always 100% a bad decision. The same way it is always a bad idea to buy a green car. Green is the color that changes the most with trends. Remember all those hunter green sofas and avocado green refrigerators. Trends. what seems like a good idea now is going to seem dated and irrelevant in 20 years. Names identify you forever and serve as the first level of identification of your social position. Parents who chose trendy nonsense names have bad taste.

Of course we all know wonderful people who have shitty names, but as a parent, why would you levy that burden on your kid? They just have to work that much harder to prove they aren't a stripper.

O arbiter of taste and class, what are your childrens' names, pray tell?

Also, if everyone were to choose from a list of names deemed appropriate (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law), the names you have selected as a "measure of class and taste" would no longer hold such esteem as a "first level identification of your social position" because they would become - gasp - common. So perhaps it's best to live and let live, and perhaps be surprised when Madisyn is not the stripper you presumed. Or maybe she is, and she's a good person anyway, and you're the shitty one.

Oh yeah, well I bet you are kind person whose car color is dated and irrelevant twenty years after it was made!

PP, don't let them get you down. You keep judging folks based on the quality of their of names and your supposition about the class that they came from. After all, an entrenched social order with birthright succession is what made America great.

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Brooklyn is a low class name.

Princess, Queen, Prince all low class. Naming your kid princess won't make her one. The OB might be doing fine but I bet it was a lot harder than if she had been named Linda.

I'm over the girls named boys names thing - Ryan, Dale. How long before we have a girl named Keith?

Everyone is trying so hard to be original but it just makes you look like a climber. If you want to be original then BE original, but the name isn't going to do it.

Rich people name their pets after luxury goods. Poor people name their kids after them.

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There’s a blogger out there with a Chase and Ryder.

Paw patrol! Paw patrol! Be there on the double!

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Anonymous wrote:Brooklyn is a low class name.

Princess, Queen, Prince all low class. Naming your kid princess won't make her one. The OB might be doing fine but I bet it was a lot harder than if she had been named Linda.

I'm over the girls named boys names thing - Ryan, Dale. How long before we have a girl named Keith?

Everyone is trying so hard to be original but it just makes you look like a climber. If you want to be original then BE original, but the name isn't going to do it.

Rich people name their pets after luxury goods. Poor people name their kids after them.

GASP, someone dares to call me low class?

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Anonymous wrote:Brooklyn is a low class name.

Princess, Queen, Prince all low class. Naming your kid princess won't make her one. The OB might be doing fine but I bet it was a lot harder than if she had been named Linda.

I'm over the girls named boys names thing - Ryan, Dale. How long before we have a girl named Keith?

Everyone is trying so hard to be original but it just makes you look like a climber. If you want to be original then BE original, but the name isn't going to do it.

Rich people name their pets after luxury goods. Poor people name their kids after them.

GASP, someone dares to call me low class?

Yes but even his parents weren't crazy enough to name him Prince. Stage name-not his real name. You aren't that dumb right?

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Anonymous wrote:Brooklyn is a lo;w class name.

Princess, Queen, Prince all low class. Naming your kid princess won't make her one. The OB might be doing fine but I bet it was a lot harder than if she had been named Linda.

I'm over the girls named boys names thing - Ryan, Dale. How long before we have a girl named Keith?

Everyone is trying so hard to be original but it just makes you look like a climber. If you want to be original then BE original, but the name isn't going to do it.

Rich people name their pets after luxury goods. Poor people name their kids after them.

GASP, someone dares to call me low class?

Yes but even his parents weren't crazy enough to name him Prince. Stage name-not his real name. You aren't that dumb right?

Prince Rogers Nelson is mocking you from his sparkly purple mausoleum, dum dum

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Anonymous wrote:My grandmothers were Bertha and Helen. They lived in Brooklyn and Manhattan. My kids are Brooklyn and Hudson. I think of my grandmothers at least once a day when I say my children’s name.

Naming my child Brooklyn was not a WTF moments for me. It has meaning to me. I didn’t care for Brittany, Bethany, or Beatrice. Going with Beth’s seemed a bit old fashioned for today.

When she is an adult she can go by Brooklyn, Brooke, or Lynn. Her choice. For now, she is Brooklyn and she seems okay with it.

For my son I could have gone with Henry or Harrison but I like the reference to NYC where my family is from.

No nickname escape hatch for Hudson, though.