Anyone whose close friends address him or her by a nickname based on his or her middle name, which happens to be a famous American surname belonging to a family that became rich before 1925.

So, if you’re Nicole Darnley but everyone in your social group calls you Vandy or Roth or Rocky, yeah, that screams “I’m better than you!”

Any man with a IV or V after his name, if he chooses to use it on non-legal documents. Like, dude, come on, we do not care that your great-great-great was the Vice President for two seconds.

Anonymous wrote:Names that make me roll my eyes:
Penelope
Stella
Josephine
Alexandra
Camila
Valentina
Evangeline

+1 to Theodore for boys.

Well, you just named my daughter’s name, niece’s name, a good friend’s child’s name, and the names of two kids from my kid’s class. So either I run in incredibly pretentious circles or.... these names are actually pretty common and well-liked by a broad swath of people, making them kind of the opposite of pretentious.

I’ll let you decide which it is. I’m actually good either way!

Allistair
Tristan

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.

My child has a double name, after two women (not my mother) who essentially raised me. It was my way of honoring their memory. I didn't mean for it to be pretentious, but I think some people view it as such.

What? They will not. They will think you are Southern and/or rural poor.

Shouldn’t the title be “names that scream I think I’m better than you and hoping to signal that with my child’s pretentious, old money WASP aspirational name”

Aspen (lives in loudon county, skis at wisp and liberty and hopes that one day her Aspen will make it to the real deal)
Tinsley (after Mortimer obvi but mom pretends it’s a family name)
Alistair (mom went to London once and met a guy with the name who she thought was a royal)
Courtlandt (always reminds people that the t is silent and it’s a family name, after the van Cortlandts, who are third cousins once removed, or something)

Chuck Bass

Insanely posh British names basically only used by blue bloods .

Tarquin
Peregrine
Digby
Barnaby
Giles
Oswald
Leander
Crispin
Humphrey
St John

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Names that make me roll my eyes:
Penelope
Stella
Josephine
Alexandra
Camila
Valentina
Evangeline

+1 to Theodore for boys.

Evangeline is a Grateful Dead song--that's not pretentious!

Uh, that’s not the first time the name was introduced to the world.

Um, it is one of the memorable

I dunno, I feel a bit like this about like the crazy classic names sometimes, especially when used across the board. Names like:

Elizabeth
Henry
Rose
Adaline

I also think the ultra femme girl names are just a bit much, like:

Arabella
Arianna
Melania
Liliana

They just seem a bit much, but I mean really it’s all fine, name your kid whatever.

Not Biker. Biker is very down to earth.

Easy. This name screams "I'm better than you" unless you're a king, queen, prince or princess.

Duke.

Anonymous wrote:Boys names for girls... Campbell, Collins, Stuart

+1! Obnoxious

Sandra

Boys names for girls... Campbell, Collins, Stuart

Anonymous wrote:Double names for girls.

My child has a double name, after two women (not my mother) who essentially raised me. It was my way of honoring their memory. I didn't mean for it to be pretentious, but I think some people view it as such.