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US East Coast old money girls names?

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Mimififi · 31/07/2024 23:18

Following on from the old money names thread. What would the US rich upper class call their girls?

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BeautyPageantDropout · 03/08/2024 19:40

Read through the NYT wedding announcements and you'll be sure to find some good examples.

peaceinourtime · 04/08/2024 15:26

Barbara ref Barbara Bush

friendlycousin · 25/02/2025 01:43

came across this forum by accident. only made a profile to comment on this one question because I may have more direct knowledge than anyone else who has posted on the topic of girls names in WASP New England, aka, the North Atlantic states, aka what my Southern cousins called "damn yankeeland." (With love and affection. Sort of.) i actually spent my childhood in what is Connecticut. Homes were usually pre 1870s. (Old by US standards.) Bank accounts were often so old they were dusty. And a lot of people inherited money from great great great grandparents who knew Grover Cleveland. Girls at my private school were named Missy or Bunny as nicknames. (I went to so many birthday parties with girls named Missy.) Actual first Biblical or dead English queens. Sarah. Martha. Mary. Jane. Dot (aka Dorothy). Megs (Margaret). Susannah (Biblical spelling). Beth. Rebecca. Miriam. Young women calling themselves "Brick" and speaking with an extreme lockjaw accent are usually just trying too hard. New England old money families give their children "family names" as middle names. Which is why "four" is a popular nickname for boys, as in "the fourth"....

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