Page 6 | Do you see these names as middle class, working class, or posh?

OneRareSquid · 2025-05-14T00:02:39+00:00

we've plenty of time to decide..just wondering what images they conjure and honest opinions on each. Lydia Abigail Natalie Naomi Cady Ramona Nancy Melody

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Calliopespa · 14/05/2025 12:37

Calliopespa · 14/05/2025 12:31

Agree. Lydia and Abigail MC.

Abi a bit more working class than Abigail. Cast and Melody definitely WC.

None very posh.

Natalie and Ramona tend to be someone with foreign links so falls a bit outside, maybe Mc.

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Sorry: Cady WC I meant.

HugoYorway · 14/05/2025 12:33

Many on MN don't know what the different classes mean anyway.

Calliopespa · 14/05/2025 12:31

FlatErica · 14/05/2025 06:01

Lydia and Abigail - middle class. All the others : working class.

Agree. Lydia and Abigail MC.

Abi a bit more working class than Abigail. Cast and Melody definitely WC.

None very posh.

Natalie and Ramona tend to be someone with foreign links so falls a bit outside, maybe Mc.

Comedycook · 14/05/2025 12:27

WhoreForSoupDumplings · 14/05/2025 12:27

Jumping aboard this.. is Alice working class?

all the Natalie’s I know are very working class (and not the nicest of people)

No Alice is not working class

Comedycook · 14/05/2025 12:27

Lydia. Middle class could veer into posh
Abigail working/lower middle
Natalie working/lower middle
Naomi working/lower middle
Cady working class
Ramona working class
Nancy lower middle/middle
Melody working/lower middle

WhoreForSoupDumplings · 14/05/2025 12:27

Jumping aboard this.. is Alice working class?

all the Natalie’s I know are very working class (and not the nicest of people)

HugoYorway · 14/05/2025 12:24

@Screamingabdabz , I am not insecure about what class I am. The OP strikes me as bonkers, as does yours.

wehavea2319 · 14/05/2025 12:20

I like most of the names listed though. Exceptions being Cady (the issues with pronunciation and when pronounced ‘Cay-Dee’ it feels like saying Katie with an American accent), Ramona (sounds like Brexit ‘remoaner’) and Naomi (it’s pretty but I can’t get past it being ‘I moan’ backwards plus the differing pronunciations would annoy me)

Im finding it interesting seeing the same names being branded MC by some posters and WC by others

Screamingabdabz · 14/05/2025 11:50

sakuraspring · 14/05/2025 09:46

I've always assumed anyone who obsesses of what class they, or others, are, is a lower middle class Hyacinth Bucket type.

Actually people who are obsessed by class are either those who know they will be judged and disadvantaged by class bias, or those who perpetrate it. If you think it’s just some comical quirk of no real consequence, then it’s an indication that you are blinded by your own privilege. Or you’re not British.

HugoYorway · 14/05/2025 11:47

Wouldn't associate them with any class.
Cady seems a bit made up.

LilyJosephine · 14/05/2025 11:42

None are posh - there’s rarely any name that gives obvious UC vibes now, although some people feel that way about 3/4 plus syllable quite uncommon or strongly Classical names (like Araminta, Octavia, Artemis, Persephone etc). Though in reality the aristocracy or landed gentry seem to go mostly for traditional names that have passed through several generations- Rose, Elizabeth, Alice etc (names that could belong to anyone).

Most of your names are solidly middle class Biblical or classics - Lydia, Abigail, Naomi, Natalie, Ramona (though the last is rarer).

The only ones that might swing towards working class for me are the nickname names and word names - so Nancy, Cady , Melody. But I definitely wouldn’t assume as statistically there must be loads of middle class Nancy’s as its Top 100, plenty of Melody’s from musical middle class parents and Cady could be a misspelling of Welsh Cadi etc (and to be honest the nickname names have spread across all classes anyway).

WokeMarxistPope · 14/05/2025 11:25

The class status of a name is not fixed. It goes from upper middle to lower with popularity. (Google Freakonomics names if you want to read more about it.)

ClosetBasketCase · 14/05/2025 10:37

middle-ish class except: Naomi
Cady
Ramona

these are council estate level

RitaAndFrank · 14/05/2025 10:23

Nancy Mitford would be spinning in her grave at all these judgements on her very ‘non-U’ name 😆

I think that on a clearly MC person, all could pass as MC apart from Cady and Melody.

MrsKateColumbo · 14/05/2025 10:15

Natalia is nicer than Natalie

MrsKateColumbo · 14/05/2025 10:15

Abigail and Natalie are 1980s to me. I know SO many Abi/Abby/Abbeys

Lydia, Nancy, Naomi probably MC

Melody - could be any, i like it.

I LOVE Ramona

Cady is awful imo, just such a blah name that doesn't even sound nice.

DurbevillesGirl2 · 14/05/2025 10:05

Lydia WC
Abigail MC
Natalie WC
Naomi MC
Cady WC
Ramona MC
Nancy WC
Melody WC

Hoolahoophop · 14/05/2025 10:03

PurpleChrayn · 14/05/2025 06:28

Middle except Cady and Melody.

Naomi pronounced “Nay-oh-mi” is middle class; pronounced “Nigh-oh-mi” is working class.

I know a Nay-ah-mi....where does that fall?

(She was quite posh from birth, now less posh, come down in the world due to poor influences in her life 😈😂😇)

Whoarethoseguys · 14/05/2025 10:00

MayaPinion · 14/05/2025 03:37

I’d say all WC. Middle class names tend to be more classic:

Anna
Catherine
Rose
Elizabeth
Julia
Ellen
Florence
Sophia
Victoria
Josephine
Alexandra
Lucy

Classic is a matter of opinion though. All those names could be either working class or middle class as could the names in Ops list. Most of which are old established names

sakuraspring · 14/05/2025 09:46

I've always assumed anyone who obsesses of what class they, or others, are, is a lower middle class Hyacinth Bucket type.

Localised · 14/05/2025 09:43

Reddelilah · 14/05/2025 08:32

Wow, what a strange way to classify names…..

I’d love to know what determines this so-called class? Money? Education? Style?

None of those, I once saw someone on here say it's mother's age at childbirth. Under 20 is lower class under 30 is working class over 30 is middle class and upper class is paying for a surrogacy.

Just not sure where this puts my mother as she had her first child at 17 and her second in her 40s? Must be middle

oldwhyno · 14/05/2025 09:38

Middle
Middle
Working
Middle
Working
Upper
Working
American

sakuraspring · 14/05/2025 09:34

user3879208717 · 14/05/2025 09:30

Our kids are at a very posh school made up of WC people who’ve made a lot of money and actual posh people. Of your list, there is not a single child with any of the names, so I’d say mostly MC names!

I'm curious. Why do you think no wealthy MC people choose the school? There are heaps of wealthy MC people who send their children to expensive schools so I am fascinated why none attend that school?

user3879208717 · 14/05/2025 09:30

Our kids are at a very posh school made up of WC people who’ve made a lot of money and actual posh people. Of your list, there is not a single child with any of the names, so I’d say mostly MC names!

Spirallingdownwards · 14/05/2025 09:28

sakuraspring · 14/05/2025 09:23

Does it matter?
What class are you hoping the name will fit into?

Probably trying to avoid one that evokes WC.