What are some low-class British first names?

Harry, Charles, Philip, George, Mary, Anne, Victoria, Alexandra, Beatrice and Eugenie.

Elizabeth and Charles.

Camillia

Tracy, Chantelle, Gudrun....

Cammy, Willy, Liz, Phil, Charlie, Harry, Annie, Eddie ... completely chav names.

Hyacinth, Rose, Daisy, and Violet.

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The trend for years for British girls ( of any class) has been prissy, Edwardian era sounding names - so each year we see tens of thousands of Mollies, Pollys, Millys, Annies, Rosies, Pansys, Olivias etc.

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Brooklyn, Romeo, Apple, Moses, Rocco, Bear, Saffron.

Mohammed

Wayne, Darren, Keith, Norman, Barry, Tiffany.

"Clemence? How absurd! I think we'll call you Sarah, instead."

Those are perfectly fine names, all of them.

Beyoncé, Mariah, Whitney, Britney.

Windell

My aunt told me that "Debra" is a maid's name

ALL women named "Debbie" should be horsewhipped with extreme prejudice.

Never met a one who didn't deserve such treatment.

Awful, awful women with an awful name! Willful, spiteful, shrewish, and always cuntish.

Mostly all are now in their 50s to 60s.

SHARON. Oh god, Sharrrrr-on. I'm surprised Mrs. O didn't change hers as this is truly a very low class name.

Women: Priscilla, Kelly, Vicky, Samantha Men: Tony, Kevin, Dennis, Nigel, Sidney

Definitely Britney, Taylor, Jordan, Jayden, and names of that ilk.

Hydrangea.

Siobhan, Keren, Karin, Kerin, etc.

Those are Irish names, R22.

Eliza Doolittle

Do people still name boys Alfred and nickname them, "Owf"?

Trevor

Linda

Any of the ridiculous made up ones like, Shaneesha Shareesha Cherelle Chereena Shamnesha Tarmeesha Terelle and on and on. Awful no job benefit names.

Earl

Duke

Marquess

Viscount

Baron

There's a real trend over here at the moment for giving your kids 2 names Billy-Bob style. There are many a Emma-Rae, Kelly-Rose, Tia-Maria. There was also a trend of calling your children after drinks, e.g Chianti, Bacardi. Also having a name like Wayne, Darren, Gary = very Argos.

Tyrone Dobbs

Jason Grimshaw

Peter Barlow

Chesney Brown

Gary Windass

Owen Armstrong

Rob Donovan

Pippa

How do you pronounce Siobhan?

Shiv-AHN, R33

I see a lot of Chavs and Chavettes post at Datalounge. My,my what a great Christmas surprise this is.

Ayb

Freddy Carbuncle Upping-Shutt

His friends @ r37 call him "Bunky."

I used to work with disadvantaged kids in London and one poor girl was called Shuvhorn. I wanted to ask her mother if she was a fan of Bananarama.

What does r30 mean "very Argos" ?

WW R35. Could have been said by Lady Violet. Soon DA will be aired there very soon. Then my partner will download it off of a board to watch ce soir.

Webby should let non paying members post threads for Xmas. Good God, undo the damage done by the Beyoncé troll.

Did I mention getting the DA xmas special will be the only effort he'll put in this holiday season. Now he's playing mixed versions of Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy.

I can tell you what are low-class names in France: all "Anglo" names, with bonus points for ones inspired by American soaps.

Beryl. Dawn. Clyde. Coral.

I know a couple who named their first born Molly because she was conceived under the influence of you-guessed-it.

If that ever becomes a trend, we might have a lot of Gina, Tina, Homer, Candy, Charlie, Dusty... And even a couple of Lucies in the Sky with Diamonds!

Peaches

Pixie

Fifi Trixibelle

What is the verdict on 'Anabel'?

Sharon, Lorraine, Charaine, Cheryl, Darren, Kevin, Jason, Kylie, Kyle, Kelly, Jordan, Wayne, anything with a preposterous apostrophe (D'Wayne, Sh'Naquee etc.,) anything beginning De or La (DeWayne, DeSharnell, LaToyah, LaMonique) - the preposterous apostrophe and 'De' and 'La' are imports from the US but still considered very ridiculous and chavvy.

Bernadette, Annette, Lynette etc., are also considered very vulgar.

Princess, Angel, Prince, Chelsea, Alesha, Logan, Levi, Zane, Axel, Mia, Savannah, Shay, Mason, Jaydon, Braydon, Braison, Kaidan, Chad, Troy, Maddison, Morgan, Rhys, Leon, Keiran, Jackson, Mitchell, Lola, Tiffany, Tia, Mya, Christal, Diamond, Christabel, Chantelle, Jade, Natasha, Brooke, Brooklyn, Rihannon, Romeo, Cruz, Amber, Blake, Joel, Finn, Corey, Lea, Michelle, Teagan, Jay, Hood, Caleb, Reuben, Malachi, Soloman, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Imogen, Zoe, Ellie, Warren, Jamie, Talisa, Starr, Elvie, Summer, Hero, Nia, Melissa, Heidi, Tigerlily, Nahla, Karis, Tahlia, Jasmine, Keagan, Leighton, Jenson, Owen, Samson, Milo, April, Zack, Bethany, Macey, Aliannah, Ashton, Rafael, Dexter, Rio, Violet, Joshua, Justin, Lewis, Sonny, Melody, Elodie, Aaron, Holly, Alexa, Eden, Riley, Tianna, Kerry, Kayla, Kya, Kaya, Jada, Kenzie, Kenzo, Mckenzie, Darcy, Verity, Charity, Chasity, Ruby, Cara, Naomi, Yazmin, Cadence, Candy, Cindy, Cody, Tamara, Aurora

Those names on early EastEnders and Corrie were pretty trashy.

R40 Argos is a really trashy catalogue store in the UK, where it is very common to see fights between drunk Darren's ans Wayne's on a Saturday afternoon.

They also specialise in very cheap jewellery especially Creole earrings, with are the trademark for Bacardi-Rae to wear (but only if she wears 5 or 6 in each ear)

Do Americans have the word Chav in their vocab??

"Darren's ans Wayne's"

Those names also have the preposterous apostrophes R48 mentioned.

Hyacinth, but for Christ's sake don't tell her.

Americans generally do not know what a chav is, but if you're a Misfits fan (as I am) then you have Kelly's lovely example.

How is Lauren Socha doing, anyway?

Sharon and Tracy

While there's no equivalent word for 'chav' in American English, they're basically known as urban white trash.

Thanks r53yonce-Rae, blame Apple spell check and correct for those faux pas!

Anything spelled in an intentionally weird way, trying too hard to be "different", like Khloe, Nikki, Jayden, Kaiden, anything that's a place name - Maddison, India, Ireland,Brooklyn - in fact, if a Beckham gave the name to a child it's automatically vulgar and overly contrived.

Bethany, Tia, Princess, Chantel(le), Jodie, Shannon, Charmaine for girls. Jayden, Kayden, Jordan, Dwayne, Connor, Liam for boys.

Anything that smacks of a surname used as a first name: Mackenzie, Mason, Tyler, Madison, Taylor.

Anything that involves pointlessly trendy gender swapping: Robin for girls etc.

Anything that involves krayzee spelling - Mickayla, Shardonnee, Dwayne.

Low class Brits give their little girls Italian names like Bella, Lola, and Nicola.

Sophia Grace, Rosie

Grace, as in van Cutsem.

I've always hated Doreen.

Ethelred

Ethelblue.

Bootsie Gumdrops

Debbie Reynolds once said in an interview that she would have been taken seriously as an actress if her name had been Deborah instead of Debbie (maybe she was thinking of Deborah Kerr.) Her real name was Frances and she grew up being called Frannie.

Joan Crawford's first name was picked in a fan magazine contest and she despised it and tried to pronounce it Jo-Anne at first. But her real name was Lucille Fay LeSueur, so I'm not sure she'd have fared any better with that -- or Frannie either, for that matter.

Sorry if this is shopworn info, but I have an ugly name too, and I'm always sort of proud of people like Howard Stern, Sylvester Stallone or Dustin Hoffman, who just suck it up and wear their ugly monikers with tolerance.

Sam Neill said he changed his name from Nigel after he got out of boarding school because he was sick of the bullying.

Morgana le Fay - who's she kidding with that fake "le".

Boadicea - everyone knew she was Boudicca at birth, just wanted to make herself sound fancy.

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, lady my ass, we all heard the stories.

Anyone named after a soap character / luxury brand / alcohol drink / tweener. Those names give automatic priority seating on the non-stop express to living in a double wide with 4 generations of 2.5 families and three dogs that are on the banned breeds list.

The plaintive voice gently yells across the WalMart shelves "Shannia-Brandy, go git yo step pappy off'n the wnter tyre display and tell him li'l Drakkar Noir and Mercedes-coupe need diapers and formula so he needs to put the ammo back."

R68, they actually had a contest to pick a new name for the person who became Joan Crawford? Did she have any say I the matter, not even resorting to a "get me the axe" moment?

Pippa

Whoreina and cumfairy

Bruth and Bigith Dickith.

They really did have a contest to pick her name R68. And maybe she didn't have enough clout for the axe in the beginning - you know, I actually liked her in the film "Rain".

Well, I liked her in some other things but she had a kind of sweet vulnerability in Rain that I don't think I remember in her other films, where she was sort of hard. But it could have been her leading man who was so wonderful in that role - Walter Huston, I think, John's father. That film has a really modern feel to me, ahead of its time - but maybe it was just his amazing performance.

Sharon, Lorraine, Tracy, Jason used to be the standard riffraff names, but now you can add Oliver, Sophie, Rosie, Jack, Harry and Noah - if there are 24 pupils in a class and only six names you know you're trash.

[quote]Oliver, Sophie, Rosie, Jack, Harry and Noah

Is that what happens? Do formerly "middle-class" names (such as the ones you mention and Zoe and Chloe) eventually "trickle down" to the lower classes who aspire to be middle class?

Mohammed

Archie, well in the 70s.

Ivy

Simon

Limey

Thiebaud

Meghan.

Any celebrity name that can be placed to a specific era (Kylie, Cher, Kesha, etc ). Also applies to TV show names (things like Danaerys and Arya at present).

Any surname used as a first name.

Any Irish name (Jeven, Liam, Conor, etc).

Any name that sounds American.

R76, yes. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this in The zipping Point, I think it was.

As for low-class Brits using Italian names, Nigella Lawson (who is neither low-class nor Italian) picker Cosima and Bruno for her Jewish kids. But that was probably 20 years ago. After that it became quite trendy and common (in both senses of the word) to use a few Italian names for girls. Sofia and Isabella the most common. Ava, too. Another example of the trickle-down from high- to middle- or low-classs.

TIPPING Point!

Lily-Mae, Maddox, Callum, Levi

Maude

Extra trashiness points if it can be shortened into something like Maz, Daz, Gezza, etc.

I'll always be very partial to this one: Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe (from "Footballers' Wives")

Connor, Trevor are chav names.

[quote]I'll always be very partial to this one: Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe (from "Footballers' Wives")

I love Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace from Big Bruvva UK. I think her mom was aiming for "Aisling" but wanted something fancier.

Jentina, which is the name of this demure English Gypsy rose.

I'm naming me daughter Arse. You pronounce it Ar-ce.

Liam, Leanne, Sharon, Lorraine, Dean, Wayne, Tyler, Eva, Ava, Darren, Dylan, made up “African” sounding names, anything with a weird spelling like Jazmin or Jaxxon.

Dwayne.

[quote]While there's no equivalent word for 'chav' in American English, they're basically known as urban white trash.

staten islanders or jersey shore guidos

The word R57 is searching for is "wigger".

Pauline