Anonymous
03/19/2013 11:27
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy
The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.
Totally agree. There is a definitional problem here -- some people are thinking preppy as in old money, WASPy, prep school (i.e., the original definition). Then I think other people are thinking preppy like Abercrombie and Fitch or, like, nouveau riche Upper East Side kids. Fair enough, maybe the definition has expanded.
When I think of "preppy" names, I think of the classic family names other people have listed -- Patricia, Catherine, Caroline, Elizabeth, Virginia -- that maybe come with goofy nicknames like Pitty or Khaki or Bitsy or something. That's what I associate with old money, horsey set, prep school preppy.
But names like Mackenzie and Delaney and Preston have a faux gravitas to them that just rings false to me.
Absolutely.
(and Bitsy is my very favorite nickname for Elizabeth
)
Anonymous
03/19/2013 11:22
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy
The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.
Totally agree. There is a definitional problem here -- some people are thinking preppy as in old money, WASPy, prep school (i.e., the original definition). Then I think other people are thinking preppy like Abercrombie and Fitch or, like, nouveau riche Upper East Side kids. Fair enough, maybe the definition has expanded.
When I think of "preppy" names, I think of the classic family names other people have listed -- Patricia, Catherine, Caroline, Elizabeth, Virginia -- that maybe come with goofy nicknames like Pitty or Khaki or Bitsy or something. That's what I associate with old money, horsey set, prep school preppy.
But names like Mackenzie and Delaney and Preston have a faux gravitas to them that just rings false to me.
Anonymous
03/19/2013 11:05
Subject: Re:now I want a preppy girl's thread.
New England style
Abigail
Lydia
Hanna
Abigail
Lydia
Hanna
Anonymous
03/19/2013 11:05
Subject: Re:now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Anonymous wrote:I knew an older lady called Pussy (Elizabeth), sadly that nickname seems to have fallen out of fashion, but Libbie or Betsy might work.
Was she American? I think I would have been forced to call her ma'am exclusively.
Anonymous
03/19/2013 10:51
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Are these East Coast old money or Southern?
What about Millicent? Is that too old lady?
What about Millicent? Is that too old lady?
Anonymous
03/19/2013 10:12
Subject: Re:now I want a preppy girl's thread.
I knew an older lady called Pussy (Elizabeth), sadly that nickname seems to have fallen out of fashion, but Libbie or Betsy might work.
Anonymous
03/19/2013 00:05
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
In my mothers generation of our extended family we have quite a few nicknames, family names were used & reused. Khaki (Carolyn), Kitty (Katherine) , Bunny (Judith) , Betty (Carolyn), Babs (Barbra)
I know this is a girls thread but my favorite boys preppy names are first names that are a mother or grandmothers maiden name ex Fisher, Miller, Davis, Smith, Powell
I know this is a girls thread but my favorite boys preppy names are first names that are a mother or grandmothers maiden name ex Fisher, Miller, Davis, Smith, Powell
Anonymous
03/18/2013 22:55
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Grace, Claire, Elizabeth (with nickname), Margaret (with nickname), India (cab be preppy if you are southern), Emily, Alison, Catherine (Kate), Sarah.
Anonymous
03/18/2013 21:35
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Anonymous wrote:Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy
The McNames, definitely not. Hadley, though, is old south. Don't know if it qualifies as preppy. I think we need a definition.
Anonymous
03/18/2013 21:31
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Ellie
Anonymous
03/18/2013 21:13
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Josephine, Evelyn, Amelia, Georgette
Anonymous
03/18/2013 20:51
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Oh, Delaney isn't either...Molly is OK with a Y
Anonymous
03/18/2013 20:50
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Mckenna. Mackenzie, Hadley, Caitlin are not preppy
Anonymous
03/18/2013 20:43
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
Ryan
Anna
Anna
Anonymous
03/18/2013 20:42
Subject: now I want a preppy girl's thread.
NOT MAYA
Preppy (Imo)
* Caroline
* Hadley
* Caitlin
* McKenna
* Mackenzie
*Catherine
* Claire
* Delaney
* Mollie
* Charlotte (Sex & The City!)
Preppy (Imo)
* Caroline
* Hadley
* Caitlin
* McKenna
* Mackenzie
*Catherine
* Claire
* Delaney
* Mollie
* Charlotte (Sex & The City!)