Is Callum a naughty boys name...?

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Latest addition to our playgroup. I like it a lot but DSis tells me, as a teacher, that it is a 'naughty boys name'.

Eh?? She has a list of such names and will happily reel them off at any opportunity.

Anyone know of this phenomena?

'Dean' and 'Jordan' are the worst IME. And anything outlandish / attention seeking if the parents are chavs. So 'Tallulah' tends to be fine if parents are hippies / lecturers / artists etc but a mad thing if coming from some awful sinkhole estate. Sorry - politically incorrect but true :o

Lol @ thistle :o

Oh, how ridiculous! Teachers shame on you!

Callum is a lovely name. I only know one and he is a great little chap.

For me it is Jack. We were talking in the staff room about how there were a lot of boys called Jack who seemed to have challenging behaviour, when I went home my DS was telling me about a boy who was always in trouble in his class, I asked if he was called Jack (as a joke) and DS replied "yes, how did you know?!" :)

I am sure there are some lovely, well behaved children called Jack but I have not met one.

I think Callum is a lovely name for lovely little boys who are angels! (Guess what my ds is called :)) Tyler on the other hand. ..........

I am ashamed to say it, but Connor/Callum/Kyle are on my 'naughty boys' list! I used to love the name Connor - until I taught 5 of them in a row, bless them.

'awful sinkhole estate' 'chav'

Thing is parents who call their children plain, forgettable or royal names like Harry, George, Elizabeth, - well they don't tend to be the parents that are hollering across the playground or yanking their child down a super-market isle, they are just quieter parents generally.

My sister also has 'Lucy' on her naughty names list but it wouldn't put me off the name - I would have called DD Lucy if DH hadn't vetoed it (for reasons entirely unconnected to the 'naughty kids at school' issue).

I went to school with a Callum (we called him Cal though)

He's now in prison for stabbing a drug dealer to death and then setting fire to the car he'd left the body in.

So er... pretty naughty, yes.

It is a name of a quite naughty boy, who isn't as naughty as Kade.

The only Callum I know is, er, lively .

The only Connor I know is pretty much an angel

Definitely.

It's right up there with Reece/Rhys, Jaden, Alfie, Cain, Charlie, Liam. Number one is still Connor though!

The only Callum I know is pretty hard work.
Two teacher friends (who don't know eachother) have both said Callum is top of their 'naughty boys names' list.
Apparently so is Jack (I have one of these and he's certainly trying at the best of times)

I know a family who have 4 boys, Tyler, Bradley, Kyle and Callum! The teachers must have been quaking in their boots when they enrolled!

Paige. Elle. Riley. Connor.

Conor for me, also Jade when it comes to girls.

Lots of names beginning with a C or K are naughty boys' names eg:
Connor, Callum, Kyle, Kieran, etc.

Oooh, I'd forgotten about Tyler! I have three Tylers, two Callums, two Alfies and two Connors in my class this year...

Agree completely BitchyHen. That has been my experience from my 7 years of teaching. Reece/Rhys is top of my list though.

The naughty boys in dd class are

Callum
Connor
Junior
Tyler
Josh
Kieran

The nice boys are called

George
Freddie

There is something in the c/k name thing (though these are my and dh initials!)

I work in v deprived area- some days every other toddler child I see is called Kayden/Kaiden/Caden. It is hugely popular in this area.

Other poss up and coming naughty names would be Billy, Logan, Mckenzie and Tyler

From recent Metro:

"Youngsters called Callum, Chelsea and Connor are earmarked as troublemakers on the first day of class.
Girls called Aleisha, Casey and Crystal put teachers on edge, as do boys named Kyle, Liam, Jake and Brooklyn.
Some 49 per cent of teachers make an assumption about a child just from their name, according to research by parenting club Bounty.com.
'Teachers are only human and make assumptions like the rest of us,' said Faye Mingo, from Bounty.com.

My mum used to have a 'naughty name' list back in the 80's. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek but somehow, the same names would come up again and again...

and it was a family joke that if someone was hollering for a William in the supermarket/school fete/park etc, he always turned out to be misbehaving. (My brother is a William.)

Callum? The only one I've ever come across is a wee horror in DS1's preschool. He punched DS1's baby brother in the face and is often to be seen beating up other children. I think he's getting some help with his behaviour - hope so, as he's tiny and it's such a shame.

YES and so is Lewis.