What does this boys name bring to mind?

[PSL1990]

Rafferty

Yes posh boy, eton, Tory

Middle class boho name made popular by Jude Law. No negative connotations. Raf or Raffy we nn are nice too

I wouldn’t say no negative connotations, exactly?

Kid with try-hard, twattish parents.

^^. Those are the negative connotations, right there

I would also say middle class boho name.

I wouldn't have negative opinions of it but it would conjure up a particularly type of family.... into yoga and slightly spiritual new age things, shop at the White Company, lots of wooden toys but drive a Range Rover.

Holiday in Bali but discuss climate change in horror over wagyu beef.

This sounds horribly judgey but I'm not in any way better than this type of family as horrified by climate change and writing this post on a cross Canada road trip

I actually quite like it with Rafa as a nn.

Kid with try-hard, twattish parents.
I tried to put it nicer than that but I agree.

Posh, blond mop of hair

Gerry Rafferty/Sadie Frost + Jude Law's son.

Whatever name people give their children unless it's completely mental they just seem to grow into it IMO.

A close friend called her daughter Molly about 5 years ago and I hated it but now I can't imagine her being anything else.

If you'd asked me at the time what it made me think of I'd have said "poor, harassed looking servant in the 1800s". 🤷🏻‍♀️

Never heard of it as a first name. I thought it was a surname.

The only one I know is definitely not posh and a pain in the arse.

Gerry

Definitely not posh. Sounds like an alternative to the Finley and Hayden's to be honest.

Posh

I know a Rafferty.

Last time I saw him, he and his brother Diesel were lobbing deli potato wedges at cars.

Cool name. Someone trying to choose something slightly unusual, but not radically different/weird.

Jewish? Not sure if it is or not but I know 3 that are all Jewish.

I am in a Jewish area and often hear someone calling out 'Raffy' or 'Rafi'.
Rafi is used in Israel so Jewish, but Rafferty I always thought was Irish.

Then there is Raphael, another one to shorten to Rafi, Raffy etc.

Raphael/Rafael called out to a fat kid in Wilko put me off that one and Raf is the Royal Air Force
Rafferty is a surname as first name.
Rafiq is an arabic name that gets shortened to Raf.

@DontCallMeShitley ah! Yes quite right, all known as Raffi, just assumed it was short for Rafferty but that makes sense.

I like it. Don’t know any but think it’s a perfectly nice name

I only know it as a surname. If I heard somebody calling the name Rafferty, I would automatically think they were being called by their surname.

I quite like it. A bit alternative maybe but it could be a bit be a bit of a door to door handyman type name though unless the owner of the name was a very cool type of guy.

I think thats a problem with some more alternative names. Nobody knows if the child will end up being awfully nerdy or really cool and as a result its probably kinder to choose a name that is more of an all rounder.