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

There you go, the truth will out. Clearly, my wording is off because I'm a working class peasant...with a name that used to be very middle class or even a bit posh, but is now decidedly working class 😆

You can never hide what you really are.

Lydia - traditionally on the posh side, now could be anywhere. I like it.
Abigail - could be anywhere, slightly more middle these days, not a fan of the gail bit.
Natalie - I think this was so popular that it's now dated - and I don't think dated names are all that popular with the working class. The one baby Natalie i know is firmly middle class.
Naomi - slightly more middle class for a similar reason to Natalie
Cady - more working class
Ramona - could be any class including posh. Not a fan of the moan sound.
Nancy - anywhere. Great name.
Melody - no idea. Not a fan.

Not what you asked but I'd go Nancy or Lydia out of that list!

Lydia and Abigail to me are just very ‘90s’ names of no particular social class- probably because there were quite a few when I was at school from varied backgrounds. Both were top 50 names in the 90s but not so popular today.

I think names that chart quite high are generally used by a mix of people.

Lydia and Nancy are middle class, the rest aren't.

Made up names like Cady are very working class.

I met a ‘Rewth’ once.

Strewth

Lydia - MC
Abigail - WC
Natalie - WC
Naomi - WC
Cady - bordering on chav
Ramona - don’t know as it’s Spanish you’d have to ask someone from there
Nancy - MC
Melody - WC

It's Like a Jilly Cooper name list!

If you care about such things then a safe bet is to go with something that the royal family have used...they tend to choose solid classics rather than pretentious.

@lifeisgoodrightnow , that's the old pronunciation in some parts of the UK.

Lydia - chav
Abigail - chav
Natalie - 80's chav
Naomi - variable.
Cady - where you put tea bags
Ramona - makes nice humus
Nancy - cool
Melody - naff

Cady and Melody are quite chavvy. All the rest are nice, although not personally keen on Romona.

Cady/ Melody- working class, probably American. I've only ever met one Melody and she was in the US and lived in a trailer 😂 Rest middle class but fine for either class. For properly posh you'd be looking at your Thomasina's, Bronte's, Giles, Barnaby's etc. although I find the posh people I actually know (CEO's) etc like to opt for very normal names. Hannah, Henry, Charlotte, James, Tom with some extra surnames as middle names.

I do hope this was meant in jest.

Honestly most of these names would be working class or lower where I live.

Lydia - MC
Abigail - lower than lower class
Natalie - lower than lower class
Naomi - lower
Cady - WC
Ramona -WC trying to be MC
Nancy - unsure, maybe mc
Melody - WC

All sound quite WC to me but Cady is very much lower than the others in the socio economic scale in my opinion

I know two natalies - one very working class, one very middle class 😂

I think as a PP said, those names are fairly universal and have heard most (if not all) used by a huge variety of people and wouldnt assign a class to any of them

Depends how old the person is. 'Melody' would have been an upper middle-class name when I was a child, so if a Melody was in her 50s I'd probably assume that. But if I was introduced to a baby Melody today, I'd think the other way around.

Other than that, I don't think I'd really assign a class to any of them. They're pretty universal, I'd say.

'Cady' just makes me think of Max Cady from Cape Fear, who is possibly one of most repellent film characters of all time.

Lydia -MC
Abigail-MC
Natalie- MC/WC
Naomi-MC/WC
Cady-MC/WC
Ramona, depends on nationality
Nancy-MC
Melody-WC

What about Melody, think that’s more WC

Abigail - lower than lower class -Nonsense, I don’t think you really know what you are talking about, you sound like a want to be Hyacinth Bucket !

Or maybe different areas of country have different social normals and customs. I don’t think it’s a ridiculous notion that Aberdeen would have slightly different class traits to Southampton, is it?

The only Abigail’s I know come from lower class families; parents who don’t work, smoke, have poor hygiene, speak poorly.

Exactly this. I'm in my 60's, my name was middle class or a bit posh when I was young. It is now very working class, so I tend to only use the diminutive.

Nope!

Why? The op asked a question and people are answering.

My opinion - and that’s all it is - is that a Cady is more likely to be from a family where the parents have a very low level of education and don’t work, Meldody I would assume there was some French connection for the family, I don’t think it’s any more WC than say Natalie or Naomi.

Ultimately it depends on what class they actually are, a privately educated doctor living in Richmond could name their child Cady and it wouldn’t make them working class.