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Is this chavvy?

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Acaibowl · 14/03/2019 08:32

Hi ladies,

I am expecting my second daughter.
I haven’t shared with family or friends by chosen baby name, but decided to tell my work colleagues as they don’t mix with my family or friends.

One colleague mentioned something about my baby name that’s really affected me, and makes me want to change it.

The name is Amelie.

I’ve liked the name since I was young.

The colleague said it was a faddy name because it comes from a movie and that it’s chavvy where she’s from!?

Is it really chavvy?? This point really makes me want think of a new name.

I don’t understand why names from movies are faddy... Aurora from sleeping beauty is still popular. And Lara from Lara Croft isn’t “faddy”. And both Aurora and Lara aren’t chavvy...are they?

Is Amelie chavvy to you?

Thanks

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Barrenfieldoffucks · 14/03/2019 14:41

Yes, a bit naff/cheesy more than chavvy perhaps.

TildaTurnip · 14/03/2019 14:26

It's also really not popular and this discussion comes up so frequently on here. Why do people claim a name to be popular without consulting facts?
names.darkgreener.com/#amelie Number 72 last year cannot be considered 'popular'

It can in certain areas though. That doesn’t account for individual towns where you do sometimes get name trends that differ.

Also, I think some names stand out more when there are more of them. No one would probably notice 2 or 3 Emilys in a baby group or whatever but because Amelie has risen in popularity recently, a couple of those would stand out.

aliceandkids77 · 14/03/2019 14:05

Not chavvy at all, my close friend has an Amelie and she's a darling. One of my favourite names too! Don't be discouraged if you love it! x

barkinatthemoon · 14/03/2019 13:25

@flumpybear... my dd is also a Tabitha 😁

flumpybear · 14/03/2019 13:22

My DD was always going to be called Tabitha. I told colleagues st work like you, but not family. One colleague, with two boys said 'oh you can't call her that it's a cats name,' which I wasn't bothered about become I love cats and I love the name too but felt she was being very negative in her words

Randomly, after she was born and another
Conversation was being had with other colleagues, same person said 'oh I love that name, it was going I be the name of my child if one of my boys had been a girl'

Sometimes people say things they don't mean because of jealousy, or because they're trying to put you off

Amelie is a lovely name

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Greggers2017 · 14/03/2019 13:16

My 11 year old dd is amelie rarely meet another .

Farmerswifey12 · 14/03/2019 13:13

I think it's lovely

LadyGAgain · 14/03/2019 13:11

Amelie is beautiful

stellarfox · 14/03/2019 13:10

Definitely not chavvy!

daisypond · 14/03/2019 13:07

It's got very popular. I see it as a bit naff, perhaps, if you're UK based, becomes it's risen on a surge of popularity from a cutesy film from 20 years ago - so it'll probably date badly as well I'd put Aurora in that category too. Lara is a bit different - I would never think Lara Croft, more Dr Zhivago.

Ipanema01 · 14/03/2019 13:02

I don’t think it’s chavvy at all, aside from that though some people are just rude! Go with what you love and don’t let one person ruin it for you x

smallereveryday · 14/03/2019 12:48

My understanding of 'chavvy' is a social class of person without taste. That it could refer to rich or poor so not related to status and the 'taste' element related to following the herd, buying or doing common things regardless of how appropriate (or not) it might be..

Having given a very long winded definition of chavvy - I can't see where a name connected to a rather niche French film could be considered in that context at all. Your colleague is an imbecile.

Barrenfieldoffucks · 14/03/2019 12:47

It depends whether unusual matters to you. To most it sounds so much like the Amelia/Emilia/Emily type names that are ubiquitous now that it won't seem unusual. I know two with that exact name, and a fair few with names similar.

barkinatthemoon · 14/03/2019 11:14

I really like the name, and would have used it myself, but it became ever so popular in our area about 5 years ago and it put me off using it. it's a beautiful name though and I like the idea of the nn "mellie".

Try not to listen to other people's opinions, you're never going to find a name everyone loves, and that doesn't matter, it needs to be a name you love. Or don't share your name ideas until after baby is born (people tend to keep their opinions to themselves once the name is set in stone)
A friend of mine actually spat her drink out laughing when I told her one of the names we were considering. She said it was a "joke name" they use when taking the p**s out of posh people.... We still used the name. Haha

Thesearmsofmine · 14/03/2019 11:07

Not chavvy. I have a niece with that name(she’s 10) and she isn’t from a chavvy family just an ordinary one!

pinkyredrose · 14/03/2019 11:02

It's the french version of Emily isn't it, not Amelia?

thefirst48 · 14/03/2019 10:58

Far from chavvy.

nocluenoidea · 14/03/2019 10:58

It's also really not popular and this discussion comes up so frequently on here. Why do people claim a name to be popular without consulting facts?

names.darkgreener.com/#amelie Number 72 last year cannot be considered 'popular'

nocluenoidea · 14/03/2019 10:55

Does your colleague realise that the film came out 18 years ago?!!!

WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 14/03/2019 10:54

Popularity doesn't = cheap unless you are an out-and-out snob.

user1474894224 · 14/03/2019 10:43

I know the film but have never heard a child with the name. There are a few Amelia's around but no Amelie's here. I think it's pretty.

BlueMerchant · 14/03/2019 10:42

The popularity has made all the Amelie/Amelia- type names( although pretty) cheap imo. I wouldn't use it.
Aurora is also cheap too.
Lara is more of an elegant classic although I wouldn't use it as it's becoming quite popular-verging on common too.

VelvetPineapple · 14/03/2019 10:36

I’m a really judgy person but even I don’t think Amelie is chavvy.

Bumblebeesmum · 14/03/2019 10:36

Yes its a fad name - it’s a trend at the moment to use foreign versions of classics. I’ve met 3 Amelie babies & never an adult. I don’t think it sounds a particular class though - if anything I’d have put it in an aspirational middle class bracket.