Aspirational middle class names

[freakonomics]

Hi,

Long time lurker, first time poster!

I’ve been reading the baby name posts for a while and every now and again someone uses the phrase “aspirational middle class name”.

What does aspirational middle class mean?

Working class “aspiring” to be middle class?
Middle class “aspiring” to be upper middle?

Am totally lost...

And what are these aspirational middle class names??

Not meaning to offend anyone but genuinely interested...I’m really interested is socio-economics (as you can see from my username!).

Thanks in advance

Only in the class obsessed uk would someone begin a thread asking this 😂

I agree! It's so old fashioned and ridiculous..!