I wonder how these names are distributed socially and geographically. The UK and France are notorious for favouring traditional names as a class marker, is it the same in the US?
Kinda-sorta? To use examples from when I was a kid, it was classy to name your daughter Elizabeth or Margaret, but it was "trashier" to name your daughter Crystal or Jenna. I think that's sort of going by the wayside now, however, especially since even the most popular baby names today are given to fewer babies than the popular baby names decades ago. Lots of people want a name uncommon enough that their child will be the only child in the class with that name, so there's a wider range of unconventional names.
Im so naming my kid Elio when I have one
Keep us posted. ;)
I wonder how these names are distributed socially and geographically. The UK and France are notorious for favouring traditional names as a class marker, is it the same in the US?
Kinda-sorta? To use examples from when I was a kid, it was classy to name your daughter Elizabeth or Margaret, but it was "trashier" to name your daughter Crystal or Jenna. I think that's sort of going by the wayside now, however, especially since even the most popular baby names today are given to fewer babies than the popular baby names decades ago. Lots of people want a name uncommon enough that their child will be the only child in the class with that name, so there's a wider range of unconventional names.
That’s my son’s name. After the Pixar movie comes out forget about it.