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[crosseyedcookie.livejournal.com]

What are the most pretentious baby names you can think of?

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[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

Things like Preston and Peyton. Parker.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Extremely obvious literary or historical names, i.e. Shakespeare, Caesar etc.

[crosseyedcookie.livejournal.com]

I think that's more tacky than pretentious.

[crosseyedcookie.livejournal.com]

For starters, my brother said if he had a daughter he'd name her Elisabetta. Jeez.

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

Preston, Peyton, Charles, William

[trishy-h.livejournal.com]

Barnaby, Hermes

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

Priscilla
Precious
Prince

[notmybusiness.livejournal.com]

A lot of last names as first names sound extra pretentious to me. Which is kind of funny because my fiance and I are planning to use my maiden name as a first name if we ever have a son. Also, girls' names like Constance or Patience seem really over the top and snotty to me.

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with Preston or Peyton. To me the names would be more along the lines of Prince, Maxim, Rich, Aphrodite, Lexus, Mercedes, Diamond, Love, Queen, Master, Hercules...

Then again those would qualify as stripper names as well.

Someone in my area (I cringe to admit) named her child "A'Miracle My'Angel [Lastname]".

And I hate...HATE it when a kid is named after the city in which they are conceived. It's like the parents are bragging about their sex life. Stupid.

[crosseyedcookie.livejournal.com]

I love the name Constance, but I agree, it sounds snotty.

[crosseyedcookie.livejournal.com]

I'd be named Hoboken. How do you like that?

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

What about Schenectady?

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I always think the names of gods and godesses or mythical characters can sound pretentious, along with flowery Shakespearean style names. For example, Pandora, Isis, Cleopatra, Lysander, Lavinia, Portia...

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA! Best name/name story ever.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

I think last names as first names sound really pretentious, and I totally agree with the poster about Parker, Preston, Peyton, Porter, etc. They just sound like you are trying too hard.

I always thought that those popular 80s names like Brittany, Amanda, Jessica, etc. were kind of pretentious sounding, too.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Names that parents (and then the holders of the name) insist are pronounced differently to everyone else who has that name. I know a Karen who pronounces it car-ren and a Lawrence (a girl) who pronounces it lor-ronce. Don't get me started on Colin Powell ;)

[thaaatsmeee.livejournal.com]

hah i'd be named Webster

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Most place names and surnames. Camden, London, York, Jefferson, Willoughby, Easton, etc.

Soleil. Ugh.

Sailor, Piper, Poet, Sonnet, and so on.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Better than Hoboken!

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

hah before i even clicked to comment Preston was the very first name i thought of too!!

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

interesting...that last set strikes me more as hippie-ish than pretentious! haha but to each his own :)

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

funny, before i even read the comments Preston was the first name to pop into my head. i wonder what it is about that name..haha. it's not an ugly name, just something about it screams rich white man.

other than that i think common surnames used as first names are a little pretentious, like Carter, Cooper, etc.

[freshlymarried.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I know a family whose girls are Peyton, Parker, and Presley... :-D They're darling kids, so I don't think of the names as pretentious... But I think I'd dislike them, for their pretentious nature, as boy names.

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Anybody remember the car commercial with the kid and her mom in their Chrysler Concorde and the kid says "My name is Savannah because of where I was conceived...what about Concord?" referring to the baby in the back seat. The mom looks at the name on the car and says "New Hampshire!".

Soooooooooo tacky!!! LOL

[arbus.livejournal.com]

ainsley

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

I've come across a few too many little girls named Precious and Princess. Prince, Baron, Countess, and Contessa fall in the mix, too. Angel (as an Anglo girls' name) is kind of pretentious. I went to school with a girl named Angel Lovings.

Cities, I'll have to say, too. London, Sydney, and Paris (though one of my favourite singers is Vienna Teng). But no little kids running around named Winnipeg, Sacramento, or Indianapolis. :-D

[turtle-dove-1.livejournal.com]

I went to school with Sunshine Angel, which isn't pretentious as much as hippy. Names that sound like they cost money to write down. Winston, Thurston... or names that mean "beautiful" or "rich", or if they just have a really long name, or several middle names that don't flow... or using their first initial as their first name... like D. Thomas Jones or something.
My all-time favorite though... Throckmorton J. Pennywhistle III. No, it's not real.

[the-theorist.livejournal.com]

Very first name that comes to mind is Preston.

[murderprotocol.livejournal.com]

Aww, I love Easton and Soleil. :)

I agree with your other names, though.

[sian-y.livejournal.com]

My friend went to school with a girl callen Lauren, who was as rough as anything but insisted people pronounced her name lorr-en.
like the laurent in Yves Saint Laurent

[indyselsa.livejournal.com]

My aunt's given name is Princess Ruth Lastname, and she goes by Princie. In theory it's pretentious, but in practice it's just plain stupid. Then again dad's name is Wilbert Ralph, so maybe she got off easy.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

My dad's name is Charles. He can be sort of pretentious.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

LOL, I agree with the quality names -- Constance and Patience both sound snotty, but Temperance sounds like the queen bee of snotty.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I think Alessandra is a bit pretentious but I love it. I like all the names on your list, actually.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree with the 80s names. Ashley is really pretentious to me. Most of the Ashleys I've known in life are at least mildly stuck-up.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Willoughby has got to be one of the most pretentious names I've ever heard, lol! London I agree, but I like it.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I'd go by Ruth if I were your aunt. Lol.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Contessa, yes that's pretentious!

And I understand you think your daughter is a precious little princess, but why not keep it to a nickname used at home rather than her given name? Jeez.

[kwsh.livejournal.com]

Blake and Courtney.