Would you let stumbling upon a handful of two decade old web pages where a name you love is described as “chavvy” put you off?

[Manfredine]

Just that really?

Right! Can biblical names even BE “chavvy”? I don’t think so - that list is dead wrong!

Please not Chardonnay

Is this satire? Because Michael, Thomas, Sarah and Emma are literally some of the most popular names ever.

Cheryl

Yes, names do change vibe.

Sebastian was once painfully posh and now very WC.

If you are thinking of any of the Jayden, Jade, Kylie, Kayden type names, then yes, I think it is a bit "downmarket" - much as I like Kylie Minogue as a person actually.

Oh yes that has a certain vibe to it.

I think a good test - not infallible, but decent - is whether a name existed before about the 1930s. If so, it tends to come round again eventually. I'm really not sure the Brendas and Cheryls and Kylies will ever really come back.

I don’t think anyone cares.

By the way I cant understand your question OP. Have you found a web page about your partner’s name or are you worried that in 20 years time someone will google your child’s name before answering them on dating app?

How is ‘Sebastian’ “very working class”?

It became very popular when a racing driver made it big.

I remember when my son was born 18 years ago and I told a friend we'd named him Harry, her reply.. ''why have you given him dog's name?'

Nowt so queer as folk.

Still not very working class

There will always be someone who doesn’t like a name.

Just pick what you like, who cares? Bethany I wouldn’t have picked 20 years ago but I quite like now. Times change.

People might not care, but they do judge or make assumptions. Conscious or unconscious. Because certain names conjure up an image, an expectation or whatever. Might be cultural, social class, something else.

Not helped by names coming and going in fashion. Celebrities etc.

Names are really important. If you're worried about a name, maybe think how you feel using it. If people did judge.

You should love the name, your child has to live with it. Personally I wouldn't use a name with strong negative connotations. Difficult to know OP when you wont tell us what it is.

I know 4 Sebastians (Well Sebs) under 16 they are all from working class/ lower middle class families. Not at all posh. The one Sebastian over 40 I know is decidedly posh. It is no longer a 'posh ' name in England

Joey??

Kai?

I find the concept of anything being seen as "chavvy" and therefore bad, a disgusting piece of class prejudice. I have no understanding why people are allowed to use the term on here, when it's obvious hate speak.

So if anything it would encourage me to use the name, as a fuck you to the utter morons who wrote such an imbecelic article!

Well it is on the children I am hearing it on.

ETA it has become what my mother calls a supermarket name ie; you hear it being called out angrily or wearily at malls and across playgrounds.

That fits with the usages I know too, which are a posh 40-something, a posh 50-something, but lots of not very posh young Sebs or Bastians.

Jade is a beautiful name.

According to mn dd3’s name is only a nickname (it’s been a name in its own right since the 16th century) and it’s a “stripper” name. She’s 14 and not planning a stripper career. I’ve only come across one other at church 10 years younger than mine. Dd was named after my great aunt (who also wasn’t a stripper to my knowledge).

No, they don't.

Honestly, stop overthinking.

Choose a name you like. Move on with your life.

What is it

No it definitely would not bother me. I would hate to have name regret because I was too worried what people thought. Our children's names are both regularly mentioned on MN, they shouldve been given their longer names, they'll never become a doctor because we used the shortened versions of names, and that it's so bad we didn't give them a name with "options" whatever that means! 🙄 I love them, they really suit my children, and once the name isn't as ridiculous as Princess Fifi Rainbow I don't see an issue. We all have different likes and dislikes!