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What's the Most Pretentious Name You've Ever Heard?

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closetoshore · 25/09/2009 18:30

After reading the other thread I thought it might be interesting to see and list the different names we all think are pretentious.

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pranma · 25/09/2009 18:33

Rupert Denzil Beaumont George
true!

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closetoshore · 25/09/2009 18:39

Clarence
Montgomery

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mayanna123 · 25/09/2009 19:24

But, as the other thread appeared to conclude, not the name itself but rather the parents attitude make a name 'pretentious', then no name itself can be pretentious. It all depends on who owns it!

cluckyagain · 25/09/2009 19:26

AWW - I love clarence and montgomery....and rupert! Perhaps I have duff taste though.

florence2511 · 25/09/2009 19:30

Barry

It's as pretentious as hell

jambleeye · 25/09/2009 19:30

No, there are definitely pretentious names.

Persephone and Araminta for example.

I know a recently baptised little Artemis.

mathanxiety · 25/09/2009 19:40

Araminta, funny enough, was the original given name of Harriet Tubman. Presumably it's a name with a long history. Do certain sounds in a name render it pretentious? The "Ara..." part perhaps?

mayanna123 · 25/09/2009 19:44

Well, I seem to have a 'pretentious' taste then because I love Rupert, Clarence, Monty and even Artemis .

smother · 26/09/2009 11:48

Spartacus (also true! a friend of mine recently named their boy this and I didn't know what to say)

Cortina · 26/09/2009 11:55

I am Spartacus

I've heard of a Horatio and a Rhodesia - not sure if pretentious is the right word, 'problematic' for the child perhaps?

bellissima · 26/09/2009 15:02

Hang on - not yet another 'Percy-fone' thread?

Lucretia. Honestly. Ran into a mother who had named her entire brood ridiculous names including that for one now teenage DD. Just how often will poisoning be mentioned to the poor child?

Sidge · 26/09/2009 15:23

Peregrine

diddl · 26/09/2009 16:12

Tarquin

pofacedandproud · 26/09/2009 16:12

Cosmo
Candida [just reminds me of thrush]

AvengingGerbil · 26/09/2009 16:19

Ptolomy
Jolyon

3littlefrogs · 26/09/2009 16:20

Torquil

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 26/09/2009 16:22

Benedict

BitOfFun · 26/09/2009 16:33

pmsl at Spartacus. Is he the pfb? Will any future siblings also be called that?

pofacedandproud · 26/09/2009 16:39

every Tarquin I have ever met has been a pain in the arse.

PlumpRumpSoggyBaps · 26/09/2009 16:49

Benedict is ds2's middle name. If I'd had my way it would've been his first name.

I think Petronella's quite pretentious. The name, that is. I don't know any Petronellas personally.

pofacedandproud · 26/09/2009 16:57

Benedict is a good name.

fruitshootsandheaves · 26/09/2009 17:01

Petronella sounds like a cross between something you get to scare mosquitos away and a 1970's TV Lawyer

isittooearlyforgin · 26/09/2009 17:03

heard a mum call her child across the room "China" not sure if pretentious, just a bit strange

Avendesora · 26/09/2009 17:07

Oberon and Delphi

annasmami · 27/09/2009 10:34

What is the point of such threads other than to be hurtful to those parents with children with these names...?

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