chavy gemstone names

[chloesaffie]

Hi i have a 11 year old daughter called Sapphire ( Saffie ) i love her name and so dose she so thats the main thing but her friends parent made a comment that got back to my child that i must be a chav to have given her that name and knowing that im pregnant said i bet this next ones called jade or ruby i mean thanks for the idea jades a beautiful name ( ive never even meet this woman but our daughters are best freinds plus her daughters are lily-may , poppy and rosie lol . why is naming your child after gemstones chavy but flowers a normal thing ? opinions please im i missing something

I have a 13 year old Sapphire! It’s a fab name but people on here will say it’s a stripper or prostitute name. I love it and it suits my girl perfectly

Why? Because some people are judgemental shits, that's why. It's hurtful and unkind, some folk need to wind their necks in.

Such small minded nastiness says a lot more about her than it does about you !

I have friends and colleagues called

Pearl (British)
Amber (Irish)
Crystal (Canadian)

All of them intelligent, stylish professional ladiess. Not a 'chav' in sight 🙂

hiya i love the name are you American ? Alot of Americans seem to jump to stripper its so weird to me this girls mum is American thats why i ask. Its slowly going up the name charts in England and this is the first time someone said something negatively about her name that i know of .

They’re lovely names, wouldn’t think of strippers at all. Says more about her than it does about the names. Ignore.

I’m British, if you advance search on here it always comes of badly but we don’t care, have had lots of comments from people good and bad but I’ve never regretted my choice

I think it's a lovely name. People who feel the need to label others with particular (derogatory) characteristics because of their names are generally small minded arse's best ignored.

Are you sure she actually said it or was it something someone said about her?
The name isn't one I'd pick but there's nothing wrong with it. Someone called Emerald has won several awards recently and she's Oxbridge-educated, and has a famous father who went to Eton.

I think its all about previous encounters.I know an Amber and she is a 'cool mum'.So that is the association from now for that name.More than once I have seen names like Crystal for example as character names for strippers.Perhaps it's about who you know by that name or heard of?

Sapphire is the name of a famous strip club in Las Vegas. So to come people it's like you named your daughter Stringfellows.

I do think jewel names are lovely but you can't pretend the link with stripping doesn't exist.

As soon as someone uses the words chav/chavvy they have exposed themselves as total snobs. Ask yourself if you value their opinion - I would suggest not! People have all sorts of opinions, doesn’t mean you have to take it on board. Shows more about her than you.

Sapphire is a gorgeous name. One of my favourites alongside Emerald!

It is so famous that most people will never have heard of it?!?

Saph said it was directed at me it was said to her my a mutral friend that the woman ask where my child was as the girls where meeting up then said it in front of them all so they told her after . my daughter is the Opposite of the chav stereotype .i was surprised that a American knew what chav meant .

Sapphire is okay but Saf or Saffie does sound a bit chavvy

You don't need to kmow the club itself.Simple Google search will tell you how popular gemstone names are for dancers

My dd has a mn stripper name! She is a feisty girl and it suits her!!

I know the link is there i said its mostly americans commenting stripper and i had no idea that it was a famous strip club in the states so maybe thats the connection but if there was a strip club called Elizabeths noone would call all Elizabeth strippers .

I like the name and the shortening’s. I don’t know much about strippers so would never make this association plus we are talking about a child. Yes I know she will grow up but honestly, she will still have a beautiful name.

I would never of linked jewel names with stripclubs …whatever next ?!!

Just think about it this way...even if the association for SOME people is dancers.Think why dancers chose these names.They are beautiful, fiesta,sexy names.The more people use the names the less association there will be

I don't go and see strippers so wouldn't make the connection. Doesn't sound chavvy either

I’d have thought more Americans would associate it with the Saphira in the bible, who fell dead at St Peter’s feet after she and her husband were caught witholding funds from the early Christians’ communal purse!

I have no problem with jewel names, but your OP reads like you’re sneering back at her daughters’ names so I’m not sure you’ve got the moral high ground here.