Is this chavvy?

[Acaibowl]

Hi ladies,

I am expecting my second daughter.
I haven’t shared with family or friends by chosen baby name, but decided to tell my work colleagues as they don’t mix with my family or friends.

One colleague mentioned something about my baby name that’s really affected me, and makes me want to change it.

The name is Amelie.

I’ve liked the name since I was young.

The colleague said it was a faddy name because it comes from a movie and that it’s chavvy where she’s from!?

Is it really chavvy?? This point really makes me want think of a new name.

I don’t understand why names from movies are faddy... Aurora from sleeping beauty is still popular. And Lara from Lara Croft isn’t “faddy”. And both Aurora and Lara aren’t chavvy...are they?

Is Amelie chavvy to you?

Thanks

Beautiful name! Timeless - go for it!

Amelie is lovely. And I'd say the opposite of chavvy. I know one, who's about 12.

Lovely name- only kids I know with the name are from very middle class families if that matters

not chavvy at all and I have never met am Amelie, much prefer it to Amelia

Not in the least bit chavvy. Very nice name

I really doubt that most people that anyone would class as 'chavvy' would ever have watched Amelie in the first place.

It's a pretty French name. That's it, really.

It's a lovely name. It is very popular.

Yes its a fad name - it’s a trend at the moment to use foreign versions of classics. I’ve met 3 Amelie babies & never an adult. I don’t think it sounds a particular class though - if anything I’d have put it in an aspirational middle class bracket.

I’m a really judgy person but even I don’t think Amelie is chavvy.

The popularity has made all the Amelie/Amelia- type names( although pretty) cheap imo. I wouldn't use it.
Aurora is also cheap too.
Lara is more of an elegant classic although I wouldn't use it as it's becoming quite popular-verging on common too.

I know the film but have never heard a child with the name. There are a few Amelia's around but no Amelie's here. I think it's pretty.

Popularity doesn't = cheap unless you are an out-and-out snob.

Does your colleague realise that the film came out 18 years ago?!!!

It's also really not popular and this discussion comes up so frequently on here. Why do people claim a name to be popular without consulting facts?

names.darkgreener.com/#amelie Number 72 last year cannot be considered 'popular'

Far from chavvy.

It's the french version of Emily isn't it, not Amelia?

Not chavvy. I have a niece with that name(she’s 10) and she isn’t from a chavvy family just an ordinary one!

I really like the name, and would have used it myself, but it became ever so popular in our area about 5 years ago and it put me off using it. it's a beautiful name though and I like the idea of the nn "mellie".

Try not to listen to other people's opinions, you're never going to find a name everyone loves, and that doesn't matter, it needs to be a name you love. Or don't share your name ideas until after baby is born (people tend to keep their opinions to themselves once the name is set in stone)
A friend of mine actually spat her drink out laughing when I told her one of the names we were considering. She said it was a "joke name" they use when taking the p**s out of posh people.... We still used the name. Haha

It depends whether unusual matters to you. To most it sounds so much like the Amelia/Emilia/Emily type names that are ubiquitous now that it won't seem unusual. I know two with that exact name, and a fair few with names similar.

My understanding of 'chavvy' is a social class of person without taste. That it could refer to rich or poor so not related to status and the 'taste' element related to following the herd, buying or doing common things regardless of how appropriate (or not) it might be..

Having given a very long winded definition of chavvy - I can't see where a name connected to a rather niche French film could be considered in that context at all. Your colleague is an imbecile.

I don’t think it’s chavvy at all, aside from that though some people are just rude! Go with what you love and don’t let one person ruin it for you x

It's got very popular. I see it as a bit naff, perhaps, if you're UK based, becomes it's risen on a surge of popularity from a cutesy film from 20 years ago - so it'll probably date badly as well I'd put Aurora in that category too. Lara is a bit different - I would never think Lara Croft, more Dr Zhivago.

Definitely not chavvy!

Amelie is beautiful

I think it's lovely