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I think all those biases affect naming, but they affect it in different ways depending on the person. Some people have different biases for the same name, and some have the same bias but different perceptions of it. For example two people could agree that a certain name sounds 'middle-class', but one person thinks that's a good thing and the other thinks it's bad. Same with any perceptions like 'old-fashioned', 'rich', 'modern', 'rural', 'urban', etc.

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I think there's always some connection between preferences and prejudice. For example if I say "I don't like this name because it makes me think of a white suburban soccer mom", that implies that I dislike white suburban soccer moms (or at least think there's something about them that would make a name a bad choice).