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Name associations
Leicester_Hunk
07-12-2016
Do you associate certain names with images of people and how you think they might be?

For example, my girlfriend has a mate called Danielle. She's a lovely woman, and said she didn't mind her name when she was growing up, but now she's not keen as it is associated with chavs, or at least people in the DM Sidebar of Shame such as Westbrook and Lloyd, Armstrong from TOWIE and the woman who married Gary Lineker.
HarrisonMarks
07-12-2016
My mate Adolf has a similar problem.
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
I see Scott as a Chavvy name since literally every Scott I know is a chav.
TrollHunter
07-12-2016
Anyone who's named after a wine I would immediately assume were common as muck. I like to set my expectations low then be pleasantly surprised when they're proved to be incorrect.
Arcana
07-12-2016
Certain names which have gone out of fashion I would tend to associate with seniors in the absence of any other information.
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Arcana:
“Certain names which have gone out of fashion I would tend to associate with seniors in the absence of any other information.”

I know a baby called Keith. It's hilarious!
PiscesMoon93
07-12-2016
My daughters middle name is 'Rae' and having been a lurker here for a while, I'm aware anything ending in 'ae' is associated with chavs or disliked.

Oh well. We gave her the name after her great grandfather and it goes lovely with her first name.
JulesF
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by PiscesMoon93:
“My daughters middle name is 'Rae' and having been a lurker here for a while, I'm aware anything ending in 'ae' is associated with chavs or disliked.

Oh well. We gave her the name after her great grandfather and it goes lovely with her first name.”

I think Rae is a lovely and unusual name. It's not chavvy at all.
PiscesMoon93
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by JulesF:
“I think Rae is a lovely and unusual name. It's not chavvy at all.”

Thank you
TheEricPollard
07-12-2016
I associate you with cheese.
Tiger Rag
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by PiscesMoon93:
“My daughters middle name is 'Rae' and having been a lurker here for a while, I'm aware anything ending in 'ae' is associated with chavs or disliked.

Oh well. We gave her the name after her great grandfather and it goes lovely with her first name.”

It seems that usually most names (girls, at least) ending in ae are double barrelled.
WhatJoeThinks
07-12-2016
Danniella Westbrook isn't called Danielle. The clue is in the spelling.
razorback Tony
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Leicester_Hunk:
“Do you associate certain names with images of people and how you think they might be?

For example, my girlfriend has a mate called Danielle. She's a lovely woman, and said she didn't mind her name when she was growing up, but now she's not keen as it is associated with chavs, or at least people in the DM Sidebar of Shame such as Westbrook and Lloyd, Armstrong from TOWIE and the woman who married Gary Lineker.”

A friend I'm mine has been in a live-in relationship for over a year with a woman named Danielle, she is a lecturer in psychology, and only 32.
I had a girlfriend years ago named Danielle, she was a haematologist at Hammersmith Hospital, I don't think that chavs were invented then, but neither of those two fitted the bill.
Leicester_Hunk
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by WhatJoeThinks:
“Danniella Westbrook isn't called Danielle. The clue is in the spelling.”

I know that. But it's not far off and it's another version of the same name.
Leicester_Hunk
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by razorback Tony:
“A friend I'm mine has been in a live-in relationship for over a year with a woman named Danielle, she is a lecturer in psychology, and only 32.
I had a girlfriend years ago named Danielle, she was a haematologist at Hammersmith Hospital, I don't think that chavs were invented then, but neither of those two fitted the bill.”

Danielle we know isn't a chav either - she was commenting on those people in the media.
Mrscee
08-12-2016
Tracy. Always makes me think of blondes dancing around their handbags at a disco and usually thick too.
Yes, this is my name and no I'm not one of those descriptions.
Tellystar
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by Mrscee:
“Tracy. Always makes me think of blondes dancing around their handbags at a disco and usually thick too.
Yes, this is my name and no I'm not one of those descriptions.”

Same with Sharon and Chantelle
contrarian
08-12-2016
any man called toby, oliver or sebastian is pretty much always a nailed on t wat
razorback Tony
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by contrarian:
“any man called toby, oliver or sebastian is pretty much always a nailed on t wat”

I don't know any Tobys, or Sebastians, but I do know two Olivers, one definitely teeters on the edge of t**tdom, the other any woman would be glad to have as a son, or ecstatic to have as a son-in-law.
Sebastian always sounds to me like the hero in a pre-war black and white British movie, or a bounder in an Edwardian novel.
WhatJoeThinks
08-12-2016
Originally Posted by Leicester_Hunk:
“I know that. But it's not far off and it's another version of the same name.”

Okay. One of my brothers is called Daniel and he isn't a chav, if that helps.
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