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Help[Opinions] Re: Tiffany
in reply to a message by Martha
I'll copy and paste what I wrote as a comment on the name page here (a lot of which is response to other comments there):
I've met way more smart brunette Tiffanys than dumb blonde Tiffanys. (Also, guess what -- blonde hair does not confer stupidity. The 2 smartest people I know are blondes.) I think it's just one of those female names that got really popular really fast, and those names always suffer from a boomerang of negativity (especially on this website). It happens faster and faster, too, in the social media age. Trendy names run their course much more quickly than they used to. The only negative association I have is that Tiffany is a "status" name because of the expensive jewelry store, and gauche, materialistic people often glom onto those names. So even though most women and girls named Tiffany were given the name because their parents thought the name itself was beautiful, there's that 5% who chose it because they wrongly thought it made them sound rich and powerful. And all the other Tiffanys suffer for it.
As a name itself, I think it's quite pretty. It is hard to separate it from the pop culture associations, though. It's dated, but that's really not a problem for me. I like it a little less than Stephanie, which has a similar sound.
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I've met way more smart brunette Tiffanys than dumb blonde Tiffanys. (Also, guess what -- blonde hair does not confer stupidity. The 2 smartest people I know are blondes.) I think it's just one of those female names that got really popular really fast, and those names always suffer from a boomerang of negativity (especially on this website). It happens faster and faster, too, in the social media age. Trendy names run their course much more quickly than they used to. The only negative association I have is that Tiffany is a "status" name because of the expensive jewelry store, and gauche, materialistic people often glom onto those names. So even though most women and girls named Tiffany were given the name because their parents thought the name itself was beautiful, there's that 5% who chose it because they wrongly thought it made them sound rich and powerful. And all the other Tiffanys suffer for it.
As a name itself, I think it's quite pretty. It is hard to separate it from the pop culture associations, though. It's dated, but that's really not a problem for me. I like it a little less than Stephanie, which has a similar sound.
Please vote in my polls. I will love you forever!
http://www.behindthename.com/polls/member/109998
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