Unpopular Opinion: Posh Southern Named are very cute

[Anonymous]

London Natives. Moved to DC for college and spent 12 years studying and working. Moved to Dallas a year ago and expecting our first.

I know these names get hate in DC but the naming style and clothes are super cute to me. They actually remind me a bit of home.

Little boys in monogrammed smocked gingham rompers named Callaway or Saunders. Little girls in matching Lily Pulitzer dresses named Mary Campbell or Gentry Elizabeth.

I find it charming.

[Anonymous]

LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

You clearly aren’t southern if you think “Mary” isn’t southern… keep your dog outta this fight, you have no idea what you are talking about….

[Anonymous]

Ugh I absolutely hate those smock things. They look atrocious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

You have apparently not encountered a Southern double-barreled Mary.

[Anonymous]

I met a little girl named Adams the other day down south. I would never use a surname as a first name, but it was cute on her.

[Anonymous]

Those names are not posh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

You are obviously not from the south. Two of my closest friends are Mary Katherine and Mary Grace. I’m Anna Elizabeth (Anna Beth). I know so many girls with Mary as part of their name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

You are obviously not from the south. Two of my closest friends are Mary Katherine and Mary Grace. I’m Anna Elizabeth (Anna Beth). I know so many girls with Mary as part of their name.

I do as well, none of them are Southern. All are Catholic.

[Anonymous]

OP on some level I agree with you, as a cute kid with a mouthful of a name always delights me.

However, as someone born in the US, some of those names will always have the whiff of the Confederacy to me. White Southern culture in the US can be hard to stomach at times. I think about little Campbell and Gentry getting married on a plantation, going to Atlanta Braves games and doing the “Tomahawk Chop”, and perpetuating a history of Southern gentility that is inescapably rooted in slavery. It takes the blush of the rose a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

You are obviously not from the south. Two of my closest friends are Mary Katherine and Mary Grace. I’m Anna Elizabeth (Anna Beth). I know so many girls with Mary as part of their name.

I do as well, none of them are Southern. All are Catholic.

+1 from Fairfield County, CT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL who is naming their daughter “Gentry”?! “Mary” is hardly a “Southern” name. And “Callaway” and “Saunders” are both last names. I didn’t realize the South had moved on from their “Hayden”, “Brayden”, “Cayden” phase. Not sure which is worse.

You clearly aren’t southern if you think “Mary” isn’t southern… keep your dog outta this fight, you have no idea what you are talking about….

Ummm, Mary is a Catholic name. And you can’t get much more anti-Catholic than the South.

[Anonymous]

Sidebar: I always feel so bad for little girls in smocked dresses. I remember from my childhood just how horribly uncomfortable and itchy they were, and how hot I got if I had to wear an undershirt with it. I tried to get my daughter to wear one once and she cried and cried until I let her change into a plain sundress.

Anyway, OP, Dallas is a whole different world from the south. I do not equate Dallas with the south, it's just...Dallas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP on some level I agree with you, as a cute kid with a mouthful of a name always delights me.

However, as someone born in the US, some of those names will always have the whiff of the Confederacy to me. White Southern culture in the US can be hard to stomach at times. I think about little Campbell and Gentry getting married on a plantation, going to Atlanta Braves games and doing the “Tomahawk Chop”, and perpetuating a history of Southern gentility that is inescapably rooted in slavery. It takes the blush of the rose a bit.

This is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidebar: I always feel so bad for little girls in smocked dresses. I remember from my childhood just how horribly uncomfortable and itchy they were, and how hot I got if I had to wear an undershirt with it. I tried to get my daughter to wear one once and she cried and cried until I let her change into a plain sundress.

Anyway, OP, Dallas is a whole different world from the south. I do not equate Dallas with the south, it's just...Dallas.

You should get out a map every once in awhile. Or atleast hit the zoom out function on maps.