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HelpRe: What Names Do You Consider Low Class?
in reply to a message by queenv
Agree. 'Class' hasn't anything to do with it. If I look at 'my taste' (names with interesting history, and/or family history) versus 'not to my taste' (cutesy hyphenated names and nicknames as full names, non-family surname names (used in the UK), 'celebrity' names, altered spellings, brand names), what it really comes down to is non-trendy vs. trendy.
On this board we tend to reject trendy names - because we know that they're trendy, we know they'll look dated at some point. Most people don't know and don't care: they just consider names they hear and think sound good. I've seen a lot of expectant parents from all sorts of backgrounds thinking about baby names, including plenty of my own friends and family. None of them are namenerds. Nearly all of them at some point, regardless of background, had at least one trendy name on their list.
On this board we tend to reject trendy names - because we know that they're trendy, we know they'll look dated at some point. Most people don't know and don't care: they just consider names they hear and think sound good. I've seen a lot of expectant parents from all sorts of backgrounds thinking about baby names, including plenty of my own friends and family. None of them are namenerds. Nearly all of them at some point, regardless of background, had at least one trendy name on their list.
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