What are the upper classes calling their boys nowadays?

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So apparently naming trends in the UK often follow a step behind the upper classes. This may or may not be true, I don't know, but if so what does that mean for the next crop of popular names that will replace Jack, Oliver etc at the top of the lists? I don't know many 'upper class' people but those I do have only really used classic names like George and William.

Do you think there's truth in that idea and if so what's due a surge in popularity over the next decade?

Disclaimer: I'm expecting a boy but just posting for fun/interest. I'm neither desperate to make my little one sound posh nor to be on the leading edge of a new trend!

And I agree @pallisers , there is this painfully daft idea that all forriners must be working class

Really? French university educated City bankers are 'working class'

Or Swedish Uni lectures? All working class?!

He didn’t become middle class. He never had money. He was a wartime physician, he just did some amazing work. One doesn’t win the Nobel prize and suddenly become another class, or get awarded a medal of honour and become nobility.

It really doesn’t matter. We are all in a certain earning bracket, with a specific limitation on our lifestyles and that is what we are. It’s not reverse snobbery, it’s just our reality.

Intrigued by the poster whose great-grandfather was an acclaimed consultant but claims that they themselves are still working class. Unless there was a major downturn in the subsequent generation’s fortunes I find this hard to believe.

‘Megan ist middle class, she's US middle class without a doubt.’

To be fair a peculiarity of America is that everyone claims to be a variation of middle class. An ex of mine came from a solidly working class family, father worked on the railroads and mother was a waitress, but he’d describe his upbringing as lower middle class. They just don’t seem to refer to ‘working class’ in the same way.

That's the point @Tiramisu1. @pallisers and I are saying that just because someone's heritage isn't solely English (which is what pp upthread were getting at about Megan, hence me leaving out white non English), class still exists.

Sessy19 you've gone from identity politics ( he considered himself WC, so he was ), to class as money ( He didn't become MC. He never had money ). But what if a rich person 'considers themselves WC'? To some weird kind of heritable social determinism (... a specific limitation on our lifestyles ...).

Those are three contradictory arguments. Which is it?

Your family is forever working class in exactly the same way that mine are tree-dwelling primates. People change, over lifetimes and over generations.

We are all in a certain earning bracket, with a specific limitation on our lifestyles and that is what we are.

Really?! By getting a good education and working hard there's never a chance of improving your lifestyle?

Or indeed through luck, circumstance or 'marrying out'?

Sessy's family must be rigid in their collective determination to interbreed only with 'people like us', generation after generation.

I agree, bob is definitely an upper class name, it is commonly known for being short for bobastion.

*recently found out that giving the baby gin to help it sleep at night might not be the best idea?!

Indeed, lottie. My parents are a retired bin man and a retired hospital cleaner, both left school early, we were extremely poor. But, though my income isn’t big, I have a multiple postgraduate degrees including a PhD and work in a middle-class profession — however I identify, my income, education, social and cultural capital would see me classified as middle-class by virtually all classifications.

"I agree, bob is definitely an upper class name,"

Only when it's Catherine on the birth certificate