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Chloe- classic & traditional vs "chavvy"?!

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TurquoiseDress · 22/07/2018 13:50

Baby is due very soon, Chloe is one of several names that we really like and are trying to make a final decision very soon.

I have always thought of Chloe as being a solid, classic, traditional name...I've known a few over the years, they have always been well educated, generally great women.

One Chloe I still know is French, I love the way it is pronounced over in France.

Have been reading quite a few comments saying that the name Chloe has become "chavvy" (I really hate this word) and much more "common" in recent years.

What do others think of the name Chloe?
Do my observations above ring true?

It wouldn't stop us using the name but I am keen to find out why it seems to have chavvy connotations in recent years.

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/07/2018 14:21

Classic to me. If I was about to meet someone I knew was called Chloe, the picture in my head would be a pretty young woman, but Chloe could actually be anyone of any age with any looks Grin. Teen dses have a couple of Chloe’s in their years.

Heratnumber7 · 22/07/2018 14:17

I think it's Cloë in French. At least the one I know spells it that way.

Lovely name though. Go for it.

IsTheRainEverComingBack · 22/07/2018 14:16

For a French girl, lovely. But yes, here I would think it dated and I would assume a certain lower cultural/socio-economic group if used for a child now.

whiskeysourpuss · 22/07/2018 14:14

Chloe was very popular when DD1 was born in 2000.

It was one of our top 3 but it was at the height of the mad cow disease outbreak & her initials would've been CJD so for that reason we dropped it... I'm really glad though as there were 6 in her nursery class & throughout her primary school classes.

HeyDolly · 22/07/2018 14:06

I don’t see it as classic or ‘chavvy’. It just feels very dated to me. As others have said, it was v v popular in the 80s/90s so I just associate it with that era.

TurquoiseDress · 22/07/2018 14:04

Thank you for the link- wow so Chloe was no.2 in the late 90s!

It's actually really interesting looking through graphs and seeing the rise and fall in popularity of names.

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Wishfulmakeupping · 22/07/2018 13:58

Yes agree with above poster I don’t see it as a classic name but a very late 80’s/90’s name such as Brett, Hannah, Jess

pennycarbonara · 22/07/2018 13:55

I thought it was one of those very popular names that a lot of kids from all social classes got some years ago (peaking 20 years ago according to graph). There are a lot of teenage and student Chloes now, aren't there?

names.darkgreener.com/#chloe

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