Posted by Nicola
on 6/27/2008, 3:48 am, in reply to "Ahhh... to be named after brackish water..."
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Oi! Cheeky mare!
I'm sorry to confirm that we are just as guilty of the tacky naming as our cousins across the pond, but on the whole it tends to be confined to...how can I put this politely?...the less well-educated branch of our society. Unfortunately this is the branch that does a lot of the reproducing, and thus the names become more prevalent. This branch also tends to regard American culture with a certain amount of awe, and thus the invasion of names like Montana and Nevaeh. (However, it does work the other way - you lot got Emma big time, whereas over here it's a name that's been bobbing around quite happily for the past 120 years, with a peak around about the time I was born - I knew quite a few Emmas in my school).
The shortened name thing is quite often an upper class trait - a lot of the middle classes like to have a 'proper' name on the birth certificate and then use the shortened form for everyday use.
There's nothing wrong with Devon as a name, btw - even here in Devon, there's at least one in my older son's school!
Just as a taster, Tom is in a private school, and he has friends called Alastair, Ben, Will, Henry (several of these), Edward and Tyler (an aberration of taste there!) Chris is in a state primary school, and he has friends called Tom, Sam, Joe, and Robert. And in Willow's group at nursery there's Ella, Kita, Darcey, Eloise, Amy, Olivia, Alice and Lucy.
Nicola
--Previous Message--
: Brits are crazy when it comes to their
: chitlins... Poppy and Honey... and Sissy...
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: --Previous Message--
: I found a place where you can download a
: spreadsheet of the most popular names in the
: UK for 2007. For some odd reason, I was
: always under the impression that British
: people were far less tacky than Americans
: when it came to names... but I found some
: real shockers!
:
: 14 different ways to spell
: "Alisha" (the most common
: spelling)
:
: Amiee (as if Amy isn't bad enough! Believe
: me, I know )
:
: Bracken ?!?! For a girl (and I thought
: Nettle was bad)
:
: A bunch of names I consider distinctly
: "American" seem to have infected
: the UK:
: Montana, Savanna(h), Demi + 3 different
: spellings of Demi-Lee, Nevaeh, Tatum, Lexus
:
: And some cool stuff:
:
: Cosima (#1838)
: Elektra (#1327)
: Elodie (#453)
: Bryony/Briony (#446/#785)
: Lavinia (#1146)
: Livvy (#1795)
: Lorna (#700)
: Zoya (#472)
: Una (#1773)
: Celyn (#1201)
: Leonie/Leoni (#442/#789)
:
: And some puzzling things:
: Kornelia #1423 (but no Cornelia)
: Beca #1360 (but no Becca)
: Devon & Jersey - is this like naming
: American kids Austin and Dallas?
: Beau and Bo for a girl...
:
: And while I'm at it... in the UK, people use
: a lot more pet names as full names (Ellie,
: Millie, Maisie, Tilly, Emmy, Nell), whereas
: in the USA, people tend to make up
: long-forms of names that are already short,
: like Brandisha, Aliana, etc.
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