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HelpRe: Names that are too “cute”
in reply to a message by EvanslandCleve
I dunno. I guess because I come from a family that loves using cutesy nickname-names, I still see them as fine, real names. I've had ancestors and family members named Lottie, Toni, Coco, Lillie, Derry, Tressie, Tommy, Kelly, Jennie, Willi, and Rudi. I don't know if some of them did technically have longer names recorded somewhere, but most of them were buried under these little names and were never called anything else all their lives.
Once I got out into the world and started meeting real live professional people with names like Dixie and Ollie and Penny I realized it's really not a big deal. Actually a lot of these types of names have kind of become a status symbol; rich people love giving each other and their kids silly little names, so something fluffy or childish like Didi, Cookie, or Chip actually screams "old money" to me, ironically.
The only names I find really unfortunate are things like Sissy. And one time I met a girl named Dodo, which I thought was pretty bad.... but she was a mega-rich Middle Eastern heiress so I didn't feel too sorry for her.
There was an actress from Old Hollywood called Googie Withers - I always found that one a bit hard to take seriously.
Once I got out into the world and started meeting real live professional people with names like Dixie and Ollie and Penny I realized it's really not a big deal. Actually a lot of these types of names have kind of become a status symbol; rich people love giving each other and their kids silly little names, so something fluffy or childish like Didi, Cookie, or Chip actually screams "old money" to me, ironically.
The only names I find really unfortunate are things like Sissy. And one time I met a girl named Dodo, which I thought was pretty bad.... but she was a mega-rich Middle Eastern heiress so I didn't feel too sorry for her.
There was an actress from Old Hollywood called Googie Withers - I always found that one a bit hard to take seriously.
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I absolutely love lottie and Lillie!(I believe Googie was not the actress real name but Georgette)♡
Googie is pretty hard to stomach but I guess when you’re a rich actress it’s all a moot point.
Might I ask what culture you grew up in where the elite class used nicknames? That’s different from my own culture so it’s interesting to me as I’ve never considered that.
Might I ask what culture you grew up in where the elite class used nicknames? That’s different from my own culture so it’s interesting to me as I’ve never considered that.
North American/Canadian culture. I've also lived in the UK.