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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aspirational white trash name. Dumb trendy.  Madison used to be the Brooklyn.[/quote]
+1 classy people do not give their children these names.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.  
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