Is Alyssa Chavvy?

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My friend thinks so. I was too embarrassed and cross to tell her this is on my list if I have a dd .

Oh come on, it is absolutely absurd to claim that all names carry exactly equal social connotations.

Whose mum is a banker and dad is a QC - Arabella's or Destynee's?

I quite agree ninedragons. People make instant judgements on names.

i think it is pretty. not chav and she will make it her own with her own personality.

But ninedragons, your name examples are from one extreme to the other. With Morgan & Thomas or Molly & Alyssa for example, one couldn't tell.

Is Alyssa chavvy?
Dunno. She hasn't been born yet.
If you're the family form shameless and have children called Mayson, Jordannette and Jayden, then go on to have Alyssa, then the whole family's names, as a group could seem chavvy, but Alyssa by itself, not really.

If you look here it's been around a good forty years.

I'm afraid people will make judgments about Morgan and Thomas and Molly and Alyssa too.

I'm not saying they should. I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that people do - and it is something which, very sadly, needs to be taken into consideration when parents choose names for their children.

In an ideal world people should be judged on ability alone, and you should be able to go for a job interview called Chardonnay with multiple piercings and a PVC mini skirt and be judged solely on your ability to do the job. But you won't be. So why make things harder for your child than they need be. You may not be able to stop the piercings and the mini skirt, but you can avoid giving them a name that will cause people to make assumptions before they've even got a foot in the door.

Rant over - for now!

Alicia = lovely. Alyssa = not so lovely.

yeh its chavvy

but i dont mind chavy

my ds has a chavvy name but will not be a chav, i will dress him head to toe in ralph lauren... if i can

ethan christopher isn't chavvy (leaping to conclusions I know.....)

However the OP name is a bit chavtastic IMHO sorry, I'm with 9 and seeker I think names are even more polarised now.
Isn't it freakonomics (only read part of it over someones shoulder on a bus) that talks about how names work their way down the social scale before jumping back up again only to repeat the whole process.

Alicia however is not chav

(you could tell the difference by the way they're said )

Alyssa isn't made up at all. its quite a well used name it Italy and Spain.

its pretty.

Alyssa is not a name in Spain.
ALICIA is.