Rafe - will DS be teased / Is the name too posh ?

[NappyAndNice]

Please help!

So we like Rafe as a name for our DS.
I know others have suggested Raife as an alternative spelling.
And had the warning of Rafe being called R*pe.

Does anyone have the name, or have a child named Rafe or know someone. Has the name been negative? I know being teased can happen with any name, but is it worse with Rafe?

Then is it really a posh name? Does that matter?
We not posh and we dont live in a posh neighbourhood, so would it be out of place?

Thanks

It sounds a bit pretentious but is OK as a name. Associating it with the the word rape is ridiculous. That's like saying somebody called Rex would be called sex.

@allmycats Rafe is a separate name in its own right - it’s Old Norse for ‘wisdom of the wolf’ 🐺

But why would they marry down, and then abandon all of the behaviours, tastes and assumptions associated with their own social class?

Because the fall in love with them!

In general, in cross-class relationships (which are pretty rare), the 'lower' ranked person will adopt some form of the manners/tastes etc of the ;higher' partner, regardless of their economic positions. It would be vanishingly rare for an Honourable to adopt the thin, grey marl tracksuit bottom, neck tattoos and Wetherspoons happy hour as key elements of his/her identity.

Thanks everyone, does make me feel good to know the majority dont connect r*pe with Rafe, was worried I as missing something when I was warned about it. Also good to know it wont be an out of place name.

I'm not British but isn't the stereotype of posh people is that they are, well, farmers? As in they "farm" their acres and acres of land that has been handed down to them through the generations and plod along in hunter wellies and have gigantic dogs that shed all over the great hall and so on...

I feel that's different from a person from an UC family becoming a carpenter...

(Rafe seems like a lovely name OP so go for it. For the record, my association with the name is Mills & Boon Regency romance novels where the dashing - and rakish - dukes are often called Rafe, spelled like that presumably for the American audiences. So I would say my association is with "rake" rather than "rape" ;) The only Ralphs I know pronounce it Ralf, as I am not posh at all.)