Do you see these names as middle class, working class, or posh?

[OneRareSquid]

we've plenty of time to decide..just wondering what images they conjure and honest opinions on each.

Lydia
Abigail
Natalie
Naomi
Cady
Ramona
Nancy
Melody

Classic is a matter of opinion though. All those names could be either working class or middle class as could the names in Ops list. Most of which are old established names

I know a Nay-ah-mi....where does that fall?

(She was quite posh from birth, now less posh, come down in the world due to poor influences in her life 😈😂😇)

Lydia WC
Abigail MC
Natalie WC
Naomi MC
Cady WC
Ramona MC
Nancy WC
Melody WC

Abigail and Natalie are 1980s to me. I know SO many Abi/Abby/Abbeys

Lydia, Nancy, Naomi probably MC

Melody - could be any, i like it.

I LOVE Ramona

Cady is awful imo, just such a blah name that doesn't even sound nice.

Natalia is nicer than Natalie

Nancy Mitford would be spinning in her grave at all these judgements on her very ‘non-U’ name 😆

I think that on a clearly MC person, all could pass as MC apart from Cady and Melody.

middle-ish class except: Naomi
Cady
Ramona

these are council estate level

The class status of a name is not fixed. It goes from upper middle to lower with popularity. (Google Freakonomics names if you want to read more about it.)

None are posh - there’s rarely any name that gives obvious UC vibes now, although some people feel that way about 3/4 plus syllable quite uncommon or strongly Classical names (like Araminta, Octavia, Artemis, Persephone etc). Though in reality the aristocracy or landed gentry seem to go mostly for traditional names that have passed through several generations- Rose, Elizabeth, Alice etc (names that could belong to anyone).

Most of your names are solidly middle class Biblical or classics - Lydia, Abigail, Naomi, Natalie, Ramona (though the last is rarer).

The only ones that might swing towards working class for me are the nickname names and word names - so Nancy, Cady , Melody. But I definitely wouldn’t assume as statistically there must be loads of middle class Nancy’s as its Top 100, plenty of Melody’s from musical middle class parents and Cady could be a misspelling of Welsh Cadi etc (and to be honest the nickname names have spread across all classes anyway).

Wouldn't associate them with any class.
Cady seems a bit made up.

Actually people who are obsessed by class are either those who know they will be judged and disadvantaged by class bias, or those who perpetrate it. If you think it’s just some comical quirk of no real consequence, then it’s an indication that you are blinded by your own privilege. Or you’re not British.

I like most of the names listed though. Exceptions being Cady (the issues with pronunciation and when pronounced ‘Cay-Dee’ it feels like saying Katie with an American accent), Ramona (sounds like Brexit ‘remoaner’) and Naomi (it’s pretty but I can’t get past it being ‘I moan’ backwards plus the differing pronunciations would annoy me)

Im finding it interesting seeing the same names being branded MC by some posters and WC by others

@Screamingabdabz , I am not insecure about what class I am. The OP strikes me as bonkers, as does yours.

Jumping aboard this.. is Alice working class?

all the Natalie’s I know are very working class (and not the nicest of people)

Lydia. Middle class could veer into posh
Abigail working/lower middle
Natalie working/lower middle
Naomi working/lower middle
Cady working class
Ramona working class
Nancy lower middle/middle
Melody working/lower middle

No Alice is not working class

Agree. Lydia and Abigail MC.

Abi a bit more working class than Abigail. Cast and Melody definitely WC.

None very posh.

Natalie and Ramona tend to be someone with foreign links so falls a bit outside, maybe Mc.

Many on MN don't know what the different classes mean anyway.

Sorry: Cady WC I meant.

It's probably a case of if you're really middle class you wouldn't need to ask...

Never heard of Cady but it definitely doesn't sound middle class/posh. Ramona sounds like someone who would hang around a juke box wearing a faux leopard skin coat and a peroxide beehive.

Might occasionally be found in a posh family, but more usually middle:
Lydia
Abigail
Natalie
Nancy

More likely to be working class, but might sometimes be found in a middle class family:
Naomi
Cady
Ramona
Melody

I'd reword that as 'If you were secure in where you are in the class system, you wouldn't need to ask'.

If I wanted to call my child Ptolemy or Jayden, I'd do that. I wouldn't bother asking 'Is this name working class ...?' cos I couldn't give a monkeys.

Whether they are usually proceeded by “get here” or “come here”.

it really depends on who you know with the name, Lydia is mc but that’s because at my very ordinary private school Lydia had a nanny and a huge house. Rest of us were dads with trades so wc.

I'm going to be honest here:
1: I'd think MC white girl or black girl of African descent

1. Could be anyone, but if Black, I'd assume African.
2. If spelt that way, I'd assume she was WC and named after an aunt.
3. I'd assume Jewish if white, retro choice if Black.
4. American!
5. Vegan
6. Hippy earth momma (not always good/bad)
7. Artsy (not necessarily MC)