Anonymous wrote: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.

Count me in too. I love all of it.

Anonymous wrote:troll. European here and no Londoner would write c*ap like this one.

This. There's some poster on here who likes to slobber all over the Southern "gentry". This is clearly them striking again.

These are not "posh" southern names. They are the opposite. They are names from non-posh people who are pretending to be posh.

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.

My mom’s cousin is named “Gentry.” They are all from Louisiana .

There isn’t much I like about southern culture, but I do like the kindness, the desserts, and the names.

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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.

+100. Mary Cambpell as a double-barreled name might ring Southern (I know a lot of Southerners that try to shoehorn maiden names once connected to plantations into their daughters' names), but Mary Katherine and Mary Grace are Catholic as the day is long. And as a Catholic who grew up in Dallas and spent several hours with friends "praying the blood of the Lamb" over me so I would accept Jesus into my heart and be Saved (TM), let me tell you that Catholicism is not really associated with the South.

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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.

Except when it comes to Scarlet O'Hara.

She was Katie Scarlett

True but still Catholic.

Lots of Marys in the North. For me, southern names the girls have the last names as first names.

I love them too

Anonymous wrote:troll. European here and no Londoner would write c*ap like this one.

OP said she went to college here. She moved to the US when she was a teenager and has assimilated.

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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.

Except when it comes to Scarlet O'Hara.

She was Katie Scarlett

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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.

You should get a clue.

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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.

Except when it comes to Scarlet O'Hara.

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.

+1000

As a South Carolinian, OP, I'm glad you're charmed but in my view.... yuck to all of it. I HATE the smocking and the monogramming, in particular. And don't get me started on those tacky hair bows....

troll. European here and no Londoner would write c*ap like this one.