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Is Tristan a chav name???

42 replies

AreYouAbleMabel · 31/07/2012 18:28

I hate using that word but I read a comment on a previous thread that it was a chavtastic name Confused 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.

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ItsMeYourCathy · 31/07/2012 19:34

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 Sad

UnnamedFemaleProtagonist · 31/07/2012 19:34

Not at ALL.

rainonmyparade · 31/07/2012 19:33

Grin at GetOrf. Loved that show.

NiceViper · 31/07/2012 19:31

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.

Lannie33 · 31/07/2012 19:30

not at all

WetAugust · 31/07/2012 19:29

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

TheInvisiblePoster · 31/07/2012 19:04

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 itGrin

NettOlympicSuperstar · 31/07/2012 18:58

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

NettOlympicSuperstar · 31/07/2012 18:57

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

reddaisy · 31/07/2012 18:56

I love it!

weaselm4 · 31/07/2012 18:55

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

StealthPolarBear · 31/07/2012 18:54

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

MrsMcEnroe · 31/07/2012 18:54

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!

GetOrfMoiRing · 31/07/2012 18:54

It's a vet's name.

SquishyCinnamonSwirls · 31/07/2012 18:53

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

Queenie72 · 31/07/2012 18:51

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

zozzle · 31/07/2012 18:51

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!!