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Help[Opinions] Re: Top 20 from French BA's (Le Figaro)
in reply to a message by molly
I like:
All of the boys' names and Victoire for a boy.
I like all of the girls' names too, but prefer Valentine for a boy.
I disagree that Amber and Angelique have lower-class connotations. I know three Ambers who go to my school and they are all very well-off. I think Angelique gives the lower-class connotation because it is unjustly categorized with Monique and Shaniqua and things of the like, but I think it is a very pretty, and perfectly respectable name.
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Ralph: What did she says the play is called?
Leroy: 'Christmas Pageant.'
Ollie: That's no name. That's what it is.
Gladys: I know a name. I'd called it 'Revenge at Bethlahem.'
-The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
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All of the boys' names and Victoire for a boy.
I like all of the girls' names too, but prefer Valentine for a boy.
I disagree that Amber and Angelique have lower-class connotations. I know three Ambers who go to my school and they are all very well-off. I think Angelique gives the lower-class connotation because it is unjustly categorized with Monique and Shaniqua and things of the like, but I think it is a very pretty, and perfectly respectable name.
♥
Ralph: What did she says the play is called?
Leroy: 'Christmas Pageant.'
Ollie: That's no name. That's what it is.
Gladys: I know a name. I'd called it 'Revenge at Bethlahem.'
-The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
♥
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Yes, I actually really like both Amber and Angelique. I didn't mean anything bad by working class, i.e. not pretty or unrespectable. The case with Amber may be that you are a few years older than me. There is a Steven Levitt (economist) article that, while flawed, included a list of the top 5 girls names given almost exclusively among rich white American parents vs. the top 5 among poor white American parents during the '90s. Amber was #1, I believe, which has backed up my personal observations. The article also mentioned that many of the names currently used among poorer people had been 'introduced' as trends among the wealthy, ten or so years earlier.
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Actually I doubt if you are a "few years younger" than Caroline Mae because she is only 16.
I actually don't think Steven Levitt had very good data to show that Amber actually had ever been really popular with upper class American parents. In my reading of the chapter in his book Freakononmics, he jumped to a lot of conclusions about names automatically cycling "down the social scale" without giving enough supporting data. In spite of Caroline Mae's personal experience, I think that on a national basis in the USA Amber has probably always been a bit skewed toward blue collar families, at least since the novel and film Ever Amber back in 1945.
Of course we also must remember that all of Levitt's data on this issue came from California and might not be completely applicable to other parts of the USA.
I actually don't think Steven Levitt had very good data to show that Amber actually had ever been really popular with upper class American parents. In my reading of the chapter in his book Freakononmics, he jumped to a lot of conclusions about names automatically cycling "down the social scale" without giving enough supporting data. In spite of Caroline Mae's personal experience, I think that on a national basis in the USA Amber has probably always been a bit skewed toward blue collar families, at least since the novel and film Ever Amber back in 1945.
Of course we also must remember that all of Levitt's data on this issue came from California and might not be completely applicable to other parts of the USA.
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