Anonymous
11/29/2020 00:42
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Teddy is fine. Theodore and Theo are pretentious.
Man I don’t have a Theo but I think it’s an adorable name!
Same. My daughter’s best friend in nursery school was a Theo. They would always pair up for walks and hold each other’s hands. I only have sweet associations with the name now.
Anonymous
11/29/2020 00:37
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"
Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German
You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.
If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.
So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'
Don't you mean to say that some German nobles had von in front of their last name.
It is just a name, not a sign of nobility, never was.
Battenberg was renamed Mountbatten. BRM changed their last name to Windsor to cover up their German heritage during ww1
What I did say means essentially the same thing: the 'von' 'generally means the person is descended from nobility'. Or, as you said, 'some German nobles had von in front of their last name'.
I live in Germany. I know what I am talking about here.
Do you?
The van/von means from. Usually a place name, sometimes not.
It is so common, there are so many variants and the people are not Euroopan royalty or nobles. Most likely villagers, peasantry
Anonymous
11/28/2020 14:43
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Suzanne, pronounced the French way (Sue Zonn)
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:46
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Mary
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:45
Subject: Re:Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.
I have a double name. Hyphenated. I didn't choose it.
Well, nobody chooses their name. And people with double names aren’t bad. But it can sometimes (not always) be very much a class signifier for the parents.
Funny, to me it’s very Catholic working-class, but that just shows my own bias.
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:43
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Teddy is fine. Theodore and Theo are pretentious.
Man I don’t have a Theo but I think it’s an adorable name!
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:43
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"
Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German
You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.
If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.
So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'
Don't you mean to say that some German nobles had von in front of their last name.
It is just a name, not a sign of nobility, never was.
Battenberg was renamed Mountbatten. BRM changed their last name to Windsor to cover up their German heritage during ww1
What I did say means essentially the same thing: the 'von' 'generally means the person is descended from nobility'. Or, as you said, 'some German nobles had von in front of their last name'.
I live in Germany. I know what I am talking about here.
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:38
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Cassaundra.
Darn spellcheck
Why?
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:33
Subject: Re:Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Any girl with the middle name James
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:24
Subject: Re:Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Unless the name is "I'm better than you" no other name says that about a person.
Anonymous
11/28/2020 13:16
Subject: Re:Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Trevor, Kent, Muffy.. basically any country club-sounding name.
Anonymous
11/28/2020 10:05
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"
Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German
You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.
If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.
So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'
Don't you mean to say that some German nobles had von in front of their last name.
It is just a name, not a sign of nobility, never was.
Battenberg was renamed Mountbatten. BRM changed their last name to Windsor to cover up their German heritage during ww1
Anonymous
11/28/2020 08:25
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Maximus
Roosevelt
Thurgood
Benjamin
Wilson
Ovaltine
Ovaltine? Like the milk flavouring product?
Anonymous
11/28/2020 08:02
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"
Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German
You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.
If you see 'von' in a German name, this generally means the person is descended from nobility. And yes, most of these people do care about that, and do see themselves as something quite special, even though the country hasn't had a true noble class in a long time.
So yes, I'd say 'von' in a name screams 'I'm better than you!'
Anonymous
11/28/2020 06:58
Subject: Names that scream “I’m better than you!”
Anonymous wrote:Kennedy as a first name
Winslow
Huxley
Maximillian
Eugenie
Barron
Blake
Sloan
Last names that begin with "Van" or "Von"
Really, aren't you ignorant
Dutch last names often start with van, or van der ###
If it starts with von, then it is more likely German
You might as well say last names that start with Mc### or end with ###son.