Has anyone ever actually been bullied for having a chavvy name?

[Manfredine]

Nothing outlandish or double barreled but a name that nonetheless comes up in all the chav name lists. A lot is made online about names being chavvy but has having such a name ever actually affected anyone irl?

example being Chantelle not princess-Rosie-Leigh

AIBU to think it’s more about the parents and worrying about how they’ll be perceived for choosing a certain name?

Yes, fine, but you don't need to veer so wildly in the opposite direction that you create a whole new set of problems for your dc. But it's difficult to say if it is as bad as all that since we do not know the name

In fact my posh name is loved on here! Got teased for it through school and I guess I have no proof but who knows if I got turned down from jobs for having it?
And yet chavvy but normal names are hated on here despite all the people we went to school with having chavvy names and no one gave a shit.

which brings me to wonder if the hatred of chavvy names and love of posh names online is based around the parents and how they want to be seen not thinking of their kids?

I’m half French and wouldn’t say so. It’s a name of its time, like Linda or Cheryl here.

There is an episode of Dix Pour Cent when Monica Belluci pretends to be a very ordinary everyday kind of woman at a party, and she chooses the name Chantal.

I was teased at grammar school for my vair posh first name, by the Kims/Sharons/Traceys and many people have been a bit snidey about it over the years.

In the City in the 80s, the spoons were a bit snidey about the Essex girls, the Sharons and Traceys, etc.

My children were given simple, classic names.

Some old fashioned and also some so called upper class names can also be perceived to be chavvy.

Unless it's a double barrelled name using an uncommon spelling or after a mathematical equation, your thread is pointless and odd.

Good point.

What is the chavvy name you love? My husband's favourite name for a girl was Chloe but for me everyone I knew who had a baby when we were teenagers called them Chloe after Chloe in home and away, very specific to northern ireland not sure why but it means I associate that name with something a pregnant teen calls their baby. That was 25/30 yrs ago now though.

Chantelle, Charmaine, chardonnay were names that would have been joked about by my snobby ex as being obvious ned names (pretty offensive name for a chav from 2000 ish in glasgow dunno if it's used now, this was someone in a tracksuit, socks pulled up over them, white trainers, gold hoop earrings, very dark fake tan and a lot of lip liner.

I grew up on a rough council estate in northern ireland, the snobbery isn't mine its just what I saw when I was around very snobby private schooled students.

She’s 61 so I rest my case.

Yes, it was definitely giving Linda vibes in that episode. Gabriel even goes "Chantal ?" as if to imply it is decidedly unglamorous (Monica being very glam).

I feel I'm overexplaining this and maybe you just have to watch it 😄

alright its destiny

Go for it.

I really dislike the word chavvy

@GreenCaterpillarOnALeafyet you don't know it is etc for et cetera.

Chantal is the French name. Chantel isn't. Chantal is also a very normal name, like Susan or Alice. Chantelle is very try-hard.

This is horrible. What is your problem?

Chantelle is very try-hard. Is it?

Is it your name?

Me? The thread? The name? What is horrible?

If names were just names, people wouldn't spend so much time considering what to call their children, or attach so much importance to it. Names carry social and class connotations and often actual meanings as well. It's perfectly reasonable to think that there shouldn't be any such thing as a 'chavvy' name or a 'posh' name, but that doesn't alter the fact that people do judge names in that way. Why choose a name that you even vaguely suspect might disadvantage your child?

A girl at my school called her baby Destiny. It was shortened to “Tinny” by all her family.

Did anyone defend you at this event? Try to stop her?

I don't hate Destiny. It doesn't scream "chavvy" to me anyway. There are a lot of middle class Gaias and Lunas around and I don't think they're a million miles away from Destiny?

I have a chavvy name. My mother was obsessed with not seeming common (because she is common) but didn’t realise until a year or two later how chavvy the name was.
People made snide remarks about my name when I was at Cambridge and I do wish I had a more neutral name. I don’t think it’s held me back in any tangible way, but it does give strangers an insight into my background.
If Destiny is the name you are considering, I can imagine your daughter might not thank you for the name.

I have a friend whose daughter has one of these so called disadvantaged names 🙄! She went to the most super selective school in our area ,Oxford and now studying for a PHD in chemistry. This lovely lady has smashed all the stereotypical biased opinions about names and background.