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07/11/2019 07:07 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:My niece's group of friends included Dakota, Cheyenne, Brooklyn and Savannah.

How about Perth Amboy? Or are double names a no-no?

Walla Walla would be awesome or heck New York, New York.

I know someone named Nyny, and I always think New York, New York. It's pronounced nine-y, and she's lovely.

Anonymous

07/10/2019 23:13 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:My niece's group of friends included Dakota, Cheyenne, Brooklyn and Savannah.

How about Perth Amboy? Or are double names a no-no?

Walla Walla would be awesome or heck New York, New York.

Anonymous

07/10/2019 17:15 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

Anonymous wrote:My niece's group of friends included Dakota, Cheyenne, Brooklyn and Savannah.

How about Perth Amboy? Or are double names a no-no?

Anonymous

07/10/2019 17:12 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

Anonymous wrote:Also Queen Latifa is named Dana. Her friends call her Dana not HRH.

She’s the straitlaced kid of a teacher and police officer. Her real name is Dana Elaine Owens.

Anonymous

07/10/2019 17:09 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:Aspirational white trash name. Dumb trendy. Madison used to be the Brooklyn.

+1 classy people do not give their children these names.

I know someone from middle of no where PA with a Madison and a Brooklyn. It felt so forced when I heard she named her kids this- like she was trying to fo the trendy thing.

I am wholly SHOOK someone with a Hudson and a Brooklyn is from NYC and feels like they tie to family living there. I have only ever heard these names on people from Nowheresville, USA who saw a few episodes of Sex and the City.

/New Yorker

I'm not from New York, but I always thought real Manhattanites name their children Hatsy and Arthur, not Brooklyn and Hudson.

Anonymous

07/10/2019 17:06 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:Brooklyn is cute and strong, Brook is a great nickname, I had a friend named Brook back in the 60s so it's been around for awhile. I do, however, draw the line at naming kids Queens or Staten Island.

Bronx?

No thonx!

There is a child out there with the unfortunate name of Bronx Mowgli (Ashlee Simpson's kid)

Mowgli as in the Kipling's novel about the child raised by wild animals?

Boy, is she stupid!

Anonymous

07/10/2019 15:34 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

Anonymous wrote:Brooklyn is a low class name.

Princess, Queen, Prince all low class. Naming your kid princess won't make her one. The OB might be doing fine but I bet it was a lot harder than if she had been named Linda.

I'm over the girls named boys names thing - Ryan, Dale. How long before we have a girl named Keith?

Everyone is trying so hard to be original but it just makes you look like a climber. If you want to be original then BE original, but the name isn't going to do it.

Rich people name their pets after luxury goods. Poor people name their kids after them.

A friend of my daughter is named Brooklyn. She is lovely.

I don't think it is nice to say any name is "low class".

Anonymous

07/10/2019 12:36 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:For context, a teacher in HS was completely against the name Lisa. She told us it was trashy. There were three girls named Lisa in our class (it was the late 80s). She refused to call any of the girls Lisa. She called all of them Elizabeth, even the girl whose name was not a derivative of Elizabeth.

She also thought Susan was trashy and completely flew off the rails when a student pointed out the Biblical origins.

There are other girls’ names she thought were trashy (Jamie, Karen), that we don’t blink at today. Trashy is in the eye of the beholder.

But technically Brooklyn isn't actually a name for a person. The names you mentioned are real names for humans so I really don't think it's comparable.

Brooklyn is absolutely a name for a person, as evidenced by the fact that lots of people have the name. That's how something becomes a name. Furthermore, using place names for people, and creating names by putting together two other names (e.g. Anne-Marie) have long histories within American culture.

I can name my kid fireplace if I want. Or plate. Or France. It doesn't make it a name for a person. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.

Or...Blanket!

I'm guessing most "people" names started as names of things--including fire and probably something like fireplace or hearth. (Try Arni, Icelandic --easily a name)

Anonymous

07/10/2019 11:44 Subject: Re:People who name their child "Brooklyn"

I don't picture it as hillbilly (how??) or Jersey. I picture it as a girl who is tall and very thin, has very long light to medium brown hair, is not really plain but not some instagrammer, a bit introverted, reads a lot. I don't have an image for a boy Brooklyn.

Maybe just because Brooklyn, brown, and brunette all begin with the same 2 letters?

Anonymous

07/10/2019 11:39 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

How about someone names their kid Sacramento or Boise?

Anonymous

07/10/2019 03:21 Subject: Re:People who name their child "Brooklyn"

I am way too old to get pregnant, and up until this moment, I was very happy with my family of all boys, but this thread has made me want to have a baby girl and name her Brooklyn. I figure it's a win/win situation. I'll have a nice baby with a nice name, and all the crazies will come out of the wood work and I'll be able to stay far away from them.

Seriously, I know DCUM is full of judgmentalism, but this thread wins.

Anonymous

07/10/2019 02:51 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:Brooklyn is a low class name.

Princess, Queen, Prince all low class. Naming your kid princess won't make her one. The OB might be doing fine but I bet it was a lot harder than if she had been named Linda.

I'm over the girls named boys names thing - Ryan, Dale. How long before we have a girl named Keith?

Everyone is trying so hard to be original but it just makes you look like a climber. If you want to be original then BE original, but the name isn't going to do it.

Rich people name their pets after luxury goods. Poor people name their kids after them.

GASP, someone dares to call me low class?
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Yes but even his parents weren't crazy enough to name him Prince. Stage name-not his real name. You aren't that dumb right?

Lol

Childishly mocking someone else/name-calling when you are actually in the wrong is the epitome of class.

Anonymous

07/10/2019 02:12 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:Aspirational white trash name. Dumb trendy. Madison used to be the Brooklyn.

+1 classy people do not give their children these names.

I know someone from middle of no where PA with a Madison and a Brooklyn. It felt so forced when I heard she named her kids this- like she was trying to fo the trendy thing.

I am wholly SHOOK someone with a Hudson and a Brooklyn is from NYC and feels like they tie to family living there. I have only ever heard these names on people from Nowheresville, USA who saw a few episodes of Sex and the City.

/New Yorker

Anonymous

07/10/2019 01:55 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

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Anonymous wrote:Aspirational white trash name. Dumb trendy. Madison used to be the Brooklyn.

+1 classy people do not give their children these names.

I know someone from middle of no where PA with a Madison and a Brooklyn. It felt so forced when I heard she named her kids this- like she was trying to fo the trendy thing.

Anonymous

07/09/2019 16:18 Subject: People who name their child "Brooklyn"

Also Queen Latifa is named Dana. Her friends call her Dana not HRH.