Thursday, July 3, 2008

Preppy Baby Names

Preppy baby name websites are full of atrocious names like Muffy, Buffy, Biff, Chip etc. Maybe that is a northern thing, because none of my friends growing up had names like that. One thing I do love about preppy names is the use of last names as first names or middle names. Some people seem to have a problem with this but I just don't understand. I remember my friend in elementary school telling me that she and her sisters all have family last names as middle names. Her middle name is Greene. I think my last name would make a perfect middle name.

My favorite preppy names all come from kids I went to school with growing up, with the exception of my favorite boy name.

Girls:
1. Katherine (the only acceptable spelling)
2. Alexandria
3. Genevieve
4. Chandler
5. Elizabeth
6. Bronwynn
7. Caroline
8. Palmer
9. Heather
10. Mimi (I admit I only like this one now because of Mariah)
11. Ansley

Boys:
1. Wentworth (the perfect name)
2. Sebastian
3. Redding
4. Matthew
5. Davis
6. Wilson (also my dad's middle name!)
7. Colin

Now I want to have babies so I can use some of these names.

P.S. People. Please stop using Ariel, Isabella, Nala and other variations on Disney names for your children. It's tacky.

1 comment:

Crimson Wife said...

I think it's a New England thing because I grew up with kids who went by the names Muffy, Cookie, Bitsy, Skip, Trip, Kip, Chip (what is it with all the -ip nicknames?), etc. They usually had perfectly distinguished names like Meredith, Caroline, Elizabeth, Edward, Charles, etc. which nobody ever called them by.