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I hate using that word but I read a comment on a previous thread that it was a chavtastic name I think it is anything but!!!!

So what do you think? I have only ever met one and he was defo not chav! Have you met any, and what were they like?? Tanx.

I've always thought it was a fairly MC/UC name. But you know what it's like on here - unless your child is called Hortense or Rupert, there will always be one or two that will think your chosen name is chav!!

No way, lovely name and I'd say v middle class x

I hate that phrase, but no I don't think Tristan is common.

It's a vet's name.

It's quite the opposite. The only Tristans I've ever met (both of them) have attended public schools (Eton etc) and worked in the City!

Nooooo I have one. The only other 1 or 2 (one and a half) I know are just normal people

I know two, both naice MC boys (well, one's a grown up, actually).

I love it!

DD would've been Tristan had she been a boy.
I am slightly chavvy, but don't think I have chavvy name tastes.

Hahaha Getorf, DD wants to be a vet.(or a food critic)
Perhaps she knows she'd have been a Tristan?

Our DD would have been Tristan if she'd been a boy. I think it's a lovely name. If I could guarantee having a boy I might even consider having another baby so that I could use it

Definitely not chav - they couldn't spell it for a start

not at all

It's not a name I like that much, but I'd never have thought it "chav".

It's quite a cultured Wagnerian name, or an Arthurian name, or that irritating child from some 70s sitcom which has only half lodged in my mind, but it was then an emblematic name for "pretentious middle class". I'd say the over 40s would still see it that way.

at GetOrf. Loved that show.

Not at ALL.

I teach two in a quite rough comp. One of them is honestly up there with the most poorly behaved, I'll natured children I've ever come across.
Thats tainted that name forever for me now

I really wanted tristan or julian-dh said hell NO!

I have just asked him if he thinks it is a chav name and he said decidedly not....

I would say Tristan is the sort of name public schoolboys have. Definitely not chavvy!

No, or not yet at any rate.

I know a couple of grown up Tristans who are on the posh side, and one is a vet, but the only child I know of that name is decidedly not posh ( I don't like to label him a Chav) I think it is filtering down the scale.....

<now this is stuck in my head...love it! >

Here (in America) I'm afraid it is. Along with Tristyn, etc. And I know a few girls called it as well.

A bit effeminate and weedy, though.

It's got middle and upper class connotations and for me it's as far from being a chivvy name as I can think of.

It's a lovely name and one that isn't popular which is always a plus point in my book.

it's what chavvy people would call their dog

just kidding

Lovely name. The only association I have with the name is Tristan and Isolde. Didn't even know its Arthurian. I haven't met any real life Tristan.

Brad Pitt was called Tristan in that film I really really love but can't for the life of me remember what its called...

Anywho, he didn't look like a chav in it.

Love the name btw and fwiw I don't know any rl Tristans

Chan!

Legends of the Falls Rhett. Or Fall?

That would be Legends of the Fall mrs rhett (fans self)

So relieved to hear these opinions. I was tempted not to click on the thread because I don't want my beautiful boys name ruined. PHEW!

Yes! That's the one! Ohhh I fell in love with Brad watching that film <sighs>

and by the way, I think it's a fab name!

My brother is one but spelt with a 'y' which is the Welsh spelling. Far from 'chavvy' I'd say. NiceViper - the 70s sitcom was George and Mildred I think.

A person can be a 'chav', not a name by itself. A name may become associated as chavvy if a lot of 'chavs' use it. Don't think Tristan is though.

But I do find Tristan far too close to triste = sad in French/latin.

Thanks mejon - it was bugging me!

And I must now confess my mistake, as the boy was Tristram.

The only Tristan I've ever known was a vile criminal!

Spelt Trystan it is an old Welsh name from an old Welsh legend called Trystan and Esyllt, not chav at all. google 'trystan' for more.

Tristan & Isolde yes. Not chavvy imo, even in the US.
Oh and I love Esyllt too, I know one who is French.

Vair mc name.

Nice too!

I hate this name (just my opinion) it's so common!

It wouldn't strike me as chavvy at all - in fact, if I met a chav who had used the name Tristan, I would be impressed at their imagination and wonder whether I had misjudged them!

And Tristan from the 'All Creatures Great and Small' series was a cool sort of chap. (Although not quite as cool as his brother Siegfried who I had a bit of a reader's crush on. )