Anonymous
10/28/2025 10:58
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hadlee might be trashy but the former is a surname and fits the WASP-y trend of non-gender specific names that go well with Anglo-Saxon last names
It's not non-gender specific if you grew up in the South. It's a fairly common name for girls. Always girls. And always spelled Hadley--although your spelling might just be a typo?
Southerners have their own set of norms.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:28
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Sherlock
Mycroft
Mycroft
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:28
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Lockwood
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:07
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WASPs keep using the same few names over and over and within the same generation, so in order to eliminate confusion, a distinctive nickname is bestowed upon the child at birth or soon thereafter that likely will have very little relation to birth name.
So, Catherine Mary Hopkins will be forever known as Ticky, because this is what her younger brother called her when trying to say "sister" as a three year old.
John Warren Calhoun III will be called Warren or "War" because granddad was Jack and Dad's JW.
Spot on.
Mary is a Catholic name. Not waspy.
I've known some WASPs with Mary somewhere in their name, though agree it's not common. Interestingly, I know some rich Catholic families in New England and the Mid-Atlantic who have avoided Mary specifically because it reads as Catholic and they want to try and fit in WASPs. They use names like Margaret, Louise, and Charlotte, which are also used by Catholics, but also get used by Protestants. One of my closest friends from grad school is from a family like this and it's always been interesting to me how sensitive her family is to little signifiers like this. Apparently even now you'll get little comments in these circles about "oh my, that's a lot of kids" or turning up noses at wedding invitation to a Catholic church. It's fascinating to me because we're talking about people with generational wealthy and fairly deep ties with private schools, financial institutions, and public service organizations. But there are *still* people who think having a relative who was on the Mayflower or whatever is an important class signifier. It's so bizarre to me as your bog standard middle class midwesterner, from an Irish catholic immigrant family.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:05
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Hadlee might be trashy but the former is a surname and fits the WASP-y trend of non-gender specific names that go well with Anglo-Saxon last names
It's not non-gender specific if you grew up in the South. It's a fairly common name for girls. Always girls. And always spelled Hadley--although your spelling might just be a typo?
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:04
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What are some of the WASP-iest names you've ever heard?
Wellington
NN beef.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:03
Subject: Re:WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Harrison is NOT a Waspy name. I live in NYC, and I am Jewish, and I know 3 or 4 Harrison Jewish baby boys. Go by "Harry." Not Waspy. at least anymore.
I find most Wasps actually use very classic names- William, Katherine, Benjamin, Elizabeth, etc.[/quote]
This. some of you are really delusional.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:03
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How about Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II.
That's the San Francisco Bomb suspect.
No, not WASP-y. Ryan and Kelly aren't classic names. If anything sounds a little Irish Catholic. Also, it should be Jr. not II (Sr., Jr., III).
It’s Junior if the first one was dad. Correct to use II instead if the first one was elsewhere in the family line.
(No idea why this factoid is taking up space in my brain.)
It was bugging me too. I came to verify that someone had corrected the original poster.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 09:01
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WASPs keep using the same few names over and over and within the same generation, so in order to eliminate confusion, a distinctive nickname is bestowed upon the child at birth or soon thereafter that likely will have very little relation to birth name.
So, Catherine Mary Hopkins will be forever known as Ticky, because this is what her younger brother called her when trying to say "sister" as a three year old.
John Warren Calhoun III will be called Warren or "War" because granddad was Jack and Dad's JW.
Spot on.
Mary is a Catholic name. Not waspy.
A lot of these names are from the Bible or based on saints. They aren't meant to be trendy.
+1. My very WASPy in-laws definitely use Mary. I've got a niece named Mary who can trace an unbroken line of Marys in her family tree that goes back to the 1890s, and none of them are Catholic. There's five Marys on the Mayflower passenger list if you want to go that far back. It's also a popular Catholic name, but that doesn't mean WASPs don't use it.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 08:47
Subject: Re:WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Simon James Alexander Ragsdale III
Who goes by Terry. Or Tripp.
Isn't Tripp a Palin name?
Hardly the torchbearer for the wasps.
Plain’s kids are Track and Trig, possibly the least WASP-iest names ever.
Tripp is the grandson. Bristol's kid
Anonymous
10/28/2025 08:45
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WASPs keep using the same few names over and over and within the same generation, so in order to eliminate confusion, a distinctive nickname is bestowed upon the child at birth or soon thereafter that likely will have very little relation to birth name.
So, Catherine Mary Hopkins will be forever known as Ticky, because this is what her younger brother called her when trying to say "sister" as a three year old.
John Warren Calhoun III will be called Warren or "War" because granddad was Jack and Dad's JW.
Spot on.
Mary is a Catholic name. Not waspy.
A lot of these names are from the Bible or based on saints. They aren't meant to be trendy.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 08:42
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:What are some of the WASP-iest names you've ever heard?
Wellington
Anonymous
10/28/2025 08:37
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WASPs keep using the same few names over and over and within the same generation, so in order to eliminate confusion, a distinctive nickname is bestowed upon the child at birth or soon thereafter that likely will have very little relation to birth name.
So, Catherine Mary Hopkins will be forever known as Ticky, because this is what her younger brother called her when trying to say "sister" as a three year old.
John Warren Calhoun III will be called Warren or "War" because granddad was Jack and Dad's JW.
Spot on.
Mary is a Catholic name. Not waspy.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 08:29
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Trip or Trey meaning the Third
Same first name for mother and daughter
Same first name for mother and daughter
Anonymous
10/28/2025 05:56
Subject: WASP-iest Names
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How about Ryan Kelly Chamberlain II.
That's the San Francisco Bomb suspect.
No, not WASP-y. Ryan and Kelly aren't classic names. If anything sounds a little Irish Catholic. Also, it should be Jr. not II (Sr., Jr., III).
It’s Junior if the first one was dad. Correct to use II instead if the first one was elsewhere in the family line.
(No idea why this factoid is taking up space in my brain.)