Whgat would you say are the pop 10 current "chav" girls names?

[GenevieveHawkings]

I know people here generally don't like the term "chav" being used but this is not meant to cause offence and is for a bit of research for a friend who is writing a short fiction piece for a competition and is looking for names to base a couple of her characters on.

She's not really looking at the "Sharon" and "Tracy" type names but more the sort of names that are in vogue at the moment.

Any ideas gratefully received.

The number of times I do that, Lynette....to find such a sensible poster....

People should call their kids whatever they want, within reason (I'd draw the line at Adolf Hitler or Rupert), and it's clearly bad news if your spouse embarrasses you about family names in public.

But it's never good to call your kid Peggy if you don't know that the name is a diminutive of Margaret. If you absolutely HAVE to call your kid Bobby, at least give him the option and name him Robert. That's a good, solid, non-chav name. But "Bobby" at 50 is an aging bore with a heart problem and a failed career in stand-up. It's chavish to give kids names that are properly diminutives. Don't call your kid Andy. Give him some options with Andrew. Same with Molly and Jack and Ellie a hundred others.

I met someone recently who'd called their daughter Ophelia. At first I thought it was a joke. Then I understood that (i) the mother had zero appreciation of what teenage boys are going to be able to do with a name like Ophelia in about 16 years time; and (ii) the mother probably thought that Hamlet was a small cigar advertised on British TV in the 1970s. If you're going to call your daughter Ophelia, why not go full-on and call her Titanic?

Ignorance on the part of parents is what marks a lot of chav names. And it's not the names themselves that thereby make the kids fools, it's the foolishness of their parents.

John.

That "Ted" list in full, which made me laugh out loud:

Mandy, Marilyn, Brittany, Tiffany, Candice, Brandy, Heather, Channing, Briana, Amber, Sabrina, Melody, Dakota, Sierra, Bambi, Crystal, Samantha, Autumn, Ruby, Taylor, Tara, Tammie, Lauren, Charlene, Chantelle, Courtney, Misty, Jenny, Krista, Mindy, Noelle, Shelby, Trina, Reba, Cassandra, Nikki, Kelsey, Shawna, Jolene, Urleen, Claudia, Savannah, Casey, Dolly, Kendra, Kylie, Chloe, Devin, Emmalou, Becky, Brandi-Lynn, Heather-Lynn, Tammie-Lynn.

People who use smiley faces on internet discussion boards are more likely than not to give their kids chav names.

Yours ever.
Ted Molly Heidi Chardonnay

Is Waggie (wife and girlfriend) as chavvy yet as Cheshire?

Rooney, Ryan, Posshpice, Dailymailreader Realitytv Xavier Factor and Simon. Plus Giggs and Zooey.

The name I most often hear yelled is actually Elizabeth.

But it's never good to call your kid Peggy if you don't know that the name is a diminutive of Margaret.
Is it acceptable if you DO know?
I'm fully aware that my daughter's name (Megan) is a Welsh diminutive of Margaret. Although an alarming number of people don't. She was named after her great-grandmother Peggy, who was not in any way a Margaret.

I got all excited as I saw Getorf then realised this was a Zombie thread.

Why? Just why?

Chavtastic names:

Chloe
Chantal
Charlene
Place names: Paris, etc
Bastardised spelling of names eg sharlotte
Wayne
Hayden
Double barrelled names. Especially involving Mae or Leigh
Kayleigh

Conspicuous consumption names like Oakley, Bailey, Barclay, Dolce, Lexus, Rolex, (yes I have heard a woman whose daughter is called Rolex)

your fiction writing friend could even let her creativity go wild and make one up.

Ahem, Jack is a whole name. It could possibly be short for something else. But then so could Mary or May.

Jack is not a diminutive in the way Bobby or Billy are!

Who gets to decide what's an 'acceptable' diminutive and what's not? How old does a name have to be before it's an 'official' name. All arbitrary nonsense if you ask me.

Zombie thread!

Nobody gets to decide that. People should name their kids however they want. Call the kid Starbucks if that's where be was conceived, and if you want.

But that's not the point. The OP raised a question about chav names. Chavishness is a perception. The determined avoidance of chaviness is a real thing. If you call the kid "Jack", you are a chav. If you call him John or Jacob and then always refer to him as Jack, you are probably not a chav. If you formally register her as Molly, or him as Ted, you are definitely a chav.

Zombie Thread, for example, is a chav name, especially with an exclamation, like 'Zombie Thread!' Only a smiley face woukd make it chavier.

ava that names everywhere

Why was this resurrected?

because ava that names everywhere

Why does ava get to name everywhere? I don't see why she should be the one that names everywhere.

I like Zombinia for a girl. Or a boy.

"I've never heard of -ana ending names being described as chav before confused"

Me neither. I would have considered them posh.

I like ana sounding names. Or just a names in general.

No idea why, but I just think they're feminine and strong :)!

"Kevin often are over here. Is it the Irish connection that puts people off or the fact that people are adopting a culture that's not their's???"

I would consider names like Kevin and Bryan to be English names of Irish origin as well as just Irish names, if you see what I mean. They're so well established now I wouldn't see them as adopting another culture. I suppose earlier waves of Irish immigrants were poor and that could be where the connection comes from.

gwen

Kevin is popular in Germany and Switzerland but has a bad connotation there.

The only Kevin I ever instructed in the UK was awful. Or actually his father was awful and seemed to encourage bad behaviour which... yeah. I'm sure there are lovely Kevins and I don't see why anybody should be put off by the Irish connection. But still...