What springs to mind when you hear the name James?

[sophiedeana990]

My inner milk curdles when I have the name James, it reminds me of a self-conscious skater boy with a Bieber/surfing hair cut that annoyingly covers his eyes, or a selfish pig of a 'bachelor' who spends his nicer than comfy salary on his drink issues to compensate the pain for his pathetic inner weakness.

No offence to anyone of course, it's just what springs to mind when I hear the name James. Problem because I read too many books, come to think of it lol

elephantoverthehill, he sounds like a real cutie :D

It's my favourite boys' name, and the name of several people who are very dear to me. It has no negative connotations to me at all.

An awful lot of girls at my private school seemed to date boys called James. So 1980s slightly posh.

Lol - you're hilarious OP. No offence.

I'm amused by one PP talking about how very English it is - my DS has it for a middle name, as did my brother and father and grandfather, as in my Scottish family it's a traditional name.

My darling boy. He's kind, thoughtful, intelligent, helpful and all 'round wonderful. When I hear the name 'James' my heart swells.

It's a family name for me and Scottish so my son, uncle and great uncle. They're about as far from your stupid assumptions as I can imagine.

What an idiotic OP - can we all pile in with snotty stereotypes about the name Sophie?

Great choice for a name.

But then it's a family name in my, er, family. Lots of Jameses!

I did make the mistake of icing him a James, the red engine, cake for his 3rd birthday. Just the face of James on a round sponge. So much grey and black icing. It looked revoting.

*revolting

I have met far too many James's, ranging in age from a few months old to over 80 years old, to have any particular associations with the name. And that's before even starting to think about fictional James's.

I'm pretty sure it's more popular in Scotland than in England, so I wouldn't assume any particular nationality either.

It is Seamus in Ireland

Hehe, rage in the comments about the name Sophie if you wish. I dislike it, and it was a very middle class name at the time I was born, not that that's bad of course!

You can't make assumptions about a James or his social class and background, on paper anyway. It's one of those good solid classless, classic names. Though I think I associate it most with wholesome salt of the earth types. Great name.

I don't know why I thought it was only top fifty ( my own anecdata of not having met many young children called James lately). Top 10 consistently for a long time.

at the OP personal associations.

My brother! Or how Rachel from Friends wanted to name a girl James...

What's the point of your OP sophie?

James is a little boy from my nursery class who always had a line of thick green snot touching his top lip.

James is the bully from secondary school who got a taste of his own medicine when the quiet girl punched him in the face out of frustration.

Clueing4looks you hit the nail on the head ;)

So - what's the point of this thread?

Compared to what MNers have said (in mass chorus screeching unison) about my name, what OP said about James is a positively glowing rave review.

I like the name James a lot. IRL I have known some I liked & some I didn't, but I still like the name.

James Brown the singer was my first thought.

Well said there lljkk

You still haven't explained the purpose of this thread sophie. You don't like the name James - so?

I think the purpose of the thread was to gain people's opinions of the name based on people they know. My cousin wishes to call her little boy James and it just made me cringe.

So some like, some don't - surprise! Hopefully you're keeping your cringing to yourself. Lol.