Has Elijah gone to the chavs?

[mummsee]

It has been my fave for a while but friends inform me it's now a bit downmarket.

Is this the case now??

Slightly..

nah

Yes, chavvy. sorry :(

nooooooooo! My 8 year old is Elijah and we are not chavs :(

I think the old biblical names are classless actually, every body seems to think Jaiden is chavvy, but I only know one and he has very mc parents!

No.

Are you chavs?

If not then there is no problem imo.

It´s the people who are chavs, not the name.

FWIW I think Elijah is a lovely name & "chav" would not enter my thoughts at all upon hearing it.

I do think MN is too quick to shout "chav" where names are concerned tbh.

completely and utterly agree on all points diddl

I hate these threads.If you like it use it!

Who gets to decide if a name is chav or not anyway?

I think chav names differ from person to person.

It depends where you live, your own background and family.

I agree with Lillypp, If you like it, use it & don't worry about what anyone else thinks of it.

What a load of classist crap nonsense.

I thinbk you need to reclaim it for the rahs! . It's a name fgs not a lifestyle choice- won't make your ds talk proper or nuffink that's wot private educations for init.

It's certainly more popular now.

Why are we so keen to 'label' names according to class - Elijah too chav, Humphrey too posh.... Why don't we just accept a name as that, a name and judge the person behind the name.

fgs get over yourself, gone to the chavs

It's a lovely name.

Any name that belongs to a member of the Dingle Clan in Emmerdale is automatically relegated to Chav Class.