Is there such thing as a 'middle class' boys name??

[Bluesand1]

I've seen that referred to in other threads...are we talking royal names and basically that's it? Most of the names today were not popular when I was at school save for say Daniel Thomas James and Samuel. It seems every other name is considered by some as 'likely to date' etc.

So just to be clear, are names only MC when they are used exclusively by the middle classes?

At least he did a carpentry course

I know of MC Joseph Ethan's and Seth's etc
I've seen Lucas described chav on here but MC above
Agree blissfully unaware is the best way to be !
Interesting though...

It depends penguin, some of the middle classes have started spelling their children's name phonetically

We are very very working class.

I have a ds with one of the names mentioned several times.

He isn't mc at all. He is an asbo waiting to happen. Hopefully he will grow out of this and into his name

I have an asbo :o though his name hasn't been mentioned

I think most names suggested as MC on this thread are pretty ubiquitous now, and Royal names always have been.

As have Benamin, Joseph, Daniel....

Mdern day MC names are ones which sound like they may have been that of a great grandfather, but in fact have probably been chosen because the parents thought no one else in the class would have the same name. And tend to be the names of Upper Middle classes dogs.
Monty, Rufus, Percy, Cosmo, Hugo, Humphrey etc.

And the new cross socio economic names such as Finn, Oscar, are probably just the new Steve's and Dave's.

Crispin

On U8s' opponents' rugby team the other week. Caused some raised eyebrows. We are more of a 'Jack' and 'Alfie' club. (So are the facilities, much to the opposing teams' parents' disgust )

Crispin
Too posh to be MC.

Also names like Hugo and Monty; they may now be being used by pretentious MC parents but they are upper class names.

3 of my boys names have been mentioned on here. I'm obviously middle class!

But I wasn't when I had my oldest 2 as they are "chav/working class" names, and always looked down on on MN.

So, somewhere between the ages of 26 and 28 I went from working class to middle class!

Or maybe I just chose names I liked.

Most MC boys I know are still being called, James, Edward, William or Harry. George seems to have declined. There's actually a couple of Johns at school, one known as Jonny. They are both quite posh yet I always think of John as being the WC name over the last 100yrs.
The poshest boy at our school is called, Hamish.

My ds plays both football and rugby.

The names of his team mates and their opponents are a constant source of mild amusement to me. I can't list them here because I would be hunted down and killed. Suffice it to say, things become stereotypes for a reason.......

Names tend to 'trickle down' the classes, so many names that used to be 'posh' are now fairly common (there's a good chapter in Freakonomics on this), such as

Sebastian
Hugo
Rufus
Quentin
Benedict
Reuben
Barnaby

So whilst these may raise eyebrows, you may be surprised how 'normal' these kids and their parents actually are. Name perceptions change over time.

I'm not middle class and this baby will be Alexander if it's a boy. Glad to know I've chosen a mc name!
The trouble with class is that you can't really buy it. You can be mc and call your child Jayden, it does happen. It's important to choose a good name but the class thing will catch you out as trends change all the time

Classical names are safe for mc.
Stay away from those names which sound made up or look misspelled.

Atticus
Rupert
Sebastian
Oscar
Archie

...are middle class names. Not that there is anything wrong with being middle class.

Atticus isn't middle class really.

Nor is Archie

Atticus has got to be THE most middle-class, right-on, lefty-liberal name there is! Have you ever heard anyone call out to their child Atticus while dropping their 't's (A'iCURSE!) and munching a Greggs pasty?

Atticus is an incredibly aspirational middle class name. Maybe not so much now after Go Set A Watchman was published, but still!

Not really, it's try hard, it's the person who read TKAM for GCSE and thinks it's clever.

The only Atticus' I know do fit the above description!

"You can be mc and call your child Jayden, it does happen. "

No it doesn't!

I hate people that think a name determines what class you are! I think many people assume American names = lower class just use what ever name you like.

It does. I know a MC Jayden.

I'd add Tarquin and Jasper