Primary school teachers - is there such a thing as "naughty" names and "good" names?

[Nearlyamumoftwo]

.... and if so, what are they?? For boys and girls! Just a bit of fun but I'm sure it will ruffle feathers!

Nothing to do with class. I taught in a very naice school. Josh was always naughty, as was Finley.

Ruby was naughty and so was Annabelle.

Interesting. I think every Kate I’ve known has been a bully or mean girl.

On a sample size of what? Across how many years of teaching at the naice school? How many kids were called Josh, Finley or Anabelle against a school population on what?

Ooh, maybe it's mine 🥰🥰 😂

I’ve never met a Liam that isn’t naughty 😂

I hope not with those apostrophes!

Every Logan or Blake or mason is a knob

Indeed. I can't think of any horrible Kates or particularly lovely ones (though I have known loads of them, so for me it's a neutral name by association). But a poster upthread said she'd never meet a Hannah who wasn't lovely, whilst I work with one who is absolutely vile! It's put me off the name forever.

I’m yet to meet a Charlie was wasn’t a Charlie.

Matthew - Always lovely
Ben - nice
Jayden / Kaiden / Riley / Tyler / Mason - naughty
Alfie / Archie / Charlie - cheeky

Based on 4 schools over 25 years !

My grandad was a Jack and I’d agree 😀

Parents who choose 'unique' spellings are showing themselves to be rule breakers who want to be different and don't think social norms and school rules apply to them. The children might well be lovely. It's not class prejudice, I only ever worked in schools in deprived areas anyway, it's an observation.

Boys with names starting with K

Any variation on Kayden, Jayden etc

Or they can’t spell, which is a whole other issue

There aren’t naughty and good names as such.

But if you have your own children you certainly consider names or rather rule them out based on previous experience of children with those names!

Anyone with any name can be taught and encouraged to succeed. It often comes from the parents support as well. This can lead to some names being more likely to be related to behaviour.

In reality you have different personalities every year and also have 3/4 years of lots of repeated names based on current trends so I could name “good/bad” names from every type after 25 years of working with children 🤣

I had a rash of very troublesome Olivers. Seemed to e one in every class.

There were some quiet Olivers as well... it was just one of the most popular names so they were over represented in the Naughty charts

But no one has mentioned non-standard spellings. All the names on the thread have been standard names, conventionally spelled. And it absolutely is class prejudice. Look at @MrsM2025’s post. The WC names are ‘naughty’,the comparatively MC Matthew and Ben are ‘lovely’. See also Jayden and Kayden posts. And remarks on hyphenated girls names.

It's generally not that though, apart from Shevon etc.

I rarely taught any children who MN would describe as middle class so I don't agree that I am being classist.

I love these posts
Emma/Emily, Katherine, Lucy, James, William, Ben are studious and pleasant to have in the classroom.
Charlie, Alfie, Archie, Freddie, Lexie, anyone with -Mae on the end, Jayden, and anyone with a weird made up or 'ie' name, less so.
@TheNightingalesStarling agree on the Oliver with one exception from my own school days. Now they are older they have all sorted themselves out though.

Autocorrect which I can’t be bothered to go back and change, I take it your son is one of the mischievous boys I listed 😏

I’m not a teacher, but definitely Theo and Kaiden. Every single one my kids have encountered has been awful!!

Always someone getting their panties in a twist you’ve mentioned my dads name as middle class, he dosent even make the cut to be working class as he dosent work 😂

anyone can name their kid anything they want the king of England named his sons harry and will do you know how many dirt poor Harry’s and Wills I know?

Sadly not, as much as I'd love to put the theory to the test.

There’s a Jaxon and MJ on the bbc news app today. Enough said really.