To think there is no such thing as a “teen mum name”

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One thing I’ve noticed on the name board is things like “sounds like the name of a girl who becomes a teen mum” usually used to criticise the incorrectly spelt or names posters don’t consider classy.

I had my children at 16 and 18 and my name is Charlotte. One of my closest friends was also a teen mum and her name is Shannon.

Teen mums have normal names!

A name can act as a social marker !

What's in my opinion? Is it not a perfectly ordinary classless name, like it has always been?

I don’t think it is no. Great that you do. Are you called Bartholomew?

nothing in theory but gets shortened to Bart which rhymes with fart. I know of a carter who was teased as carter the farter

It makes perfect sense, being a teen mum is an actual state of being. “Trashy” and “chavvy” are subjective. Was a time when chavvy just meant big hoop earrings and wearing tracksuits.

Nobody describes or identifies themselves as chavvy or trashy but teen mums know they are teen mums.

Makes no sense people decided it was offensive to call a name trashy/chavvy and that “the name of a girl who becomes a teen mum” is somehow less offensive?

I didn't give an opinion on the name. I merely said that it's an ordinary classless name, as it has always been.

Okay

I only ever heard of one Bart before the Simpsons. Every other Bartholomew I've ever known has been called Bertie.

I have never heard of “teen mum name” before but I think “Shannon” is the quintessential chav name for a woman.

I had 3 children when I was a teenager. I gave them normal names and I have a fairly posh name.
I was not born to teenage parents and although I have grandchildren they were not born to teenage parents either.

I think most people would be surprised if Beatrice got pregnant at 16, but wouldn’t be so surprised if Chantelle or Kayleigh did.

I work in a teen mum adjacent field and I’d say the names I come across the most are
Kayleigh
Ashleigh
Shannon
Charlotte
Chloe
Amber
Katie
Kerry

Teenage pregnancies from 30 years ago were frowned upon too. I know, my sister was one of them who kept the baby.

16 year olds are still children themselves, so it would be odd if society didn’t frown upon children having children. They are not in a position to provide everything a child needs, not mature enough to know exactly what a child needs. For it to be successful the teenage child would need full support, financial and guidance, from their family. This takes its toll on family members, it’s life changing for all concerned and not just for the teenage mum.

I’m with a PP, I’m pleased that teenage pregnancies are in decline, long may it continue.

hmm Shannon and Charlotte right next to each other on your list? it would be a bit more believable if you said you HAD worked instead of trying to say you currently work in that field.

I mean just how many current teenagers are called Shannon?

I haven't heard of any Kerrys born since the 80s, maybe 90s.

And Chloe is a very popular name for all classes.

Can we have some teen dad names?

Olly
Kayden
Ryan

All the -ayden names and their variants.
Jaxxon
Kai
Kaleb
Connor and other surnames as first names.

Exactly what I thought. It reminded me of Coronation Street, all those years,ago when Sarah was pregnant at a very young age and wanted to call the baby Britney but was persuaded that Bethany was a better name.

Teen mum here ✋

his name is Jack but for a girl he’d have been Jessica

I used family/people we love names for my DC but I honestly prefer cute quirky names. Names people say are for dogs like coco or luna.
But instead I have an Ellie for DD.

As much as we might try to pretend otherwise there are just some names that teen mums are more likely to have and to give to their children, and people judge even if they don’t admit it. It’s not right, and obviously doesn’t apply to everyone, but there you go.
For what it’s worth, the same is also true of a certain demographic of parents- I wont attach a class judgement to this- those who are well off, possibly older, breast feeds their 3 and 5 year olds, etc who is more likely to call their children Tarquin or Theodore.

“Shannon” is considered a “chav name” in the UK? In the US, you’d probably expect someone named Shannon to be Gen X or millennial with Irish ancestry, but there wouldn’t be any class connotations.

Saying someone has a “teen mum name” sounds rude and snobby to me.

We’re both older gen zers, British but she’s the polar opposite of a chav. Wasn’t aware anyone considered it achav name either tbh.

Do you have any actual proof that there are names that teen mums are more likely to have? Talking about the mums name and not what they name their children

This^
By the way Charlotte is a beautiful name

But names work differently across different cultures. Shannon was never used in Ireland, for instance (I mean, for Irish people, it’s as much an airport and a seriously ugly industrial zone as a river) until it filtered back via Irish-Americans giving their children placenames from a country they’ve never lived in. (And even then, people were using it because it sounded ‘modern’ and ‘American’, rather than because they were paying tribute to a river goddess. It was as much ‘Shannen’ [sic] Doherty as anything.)

See also the giant mistake that is ‘Caitlin-pronounced-Kate-Lynn’ which is a diaspora mispronunciation of Cáitlin, pronounced Coytleen or Coytchleen.

’Connor’ has been described on this thread as a ‘teen dad name’ and an example of ‘surname names’ but in Ireland, spelled correctly as ‘Conor’ , it’s a standard, safe classic like James or Edward in England.