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HelpRe: Most Pretentious Names?
in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
Clytemnestra - everything about it is snobbish and/or pathetic: the meaning, the length, the sound
Carrington/Remington/anything -ington
Willoughby
Chauncey
Parthenia/Parthenope
Rutherford
Eustace
Minerva - not too bad, but sounds kind of snobbish
Flavius/Aurelius/Valerianus/etc. - Most -us names are stuck-up. Some, like Julius or Lucius, are usable, but the ones I listed aren't.
Some French names, such as Francois and Antoine, when used on non-French people
Walburga
Luitpold - Leopold isn't bad, though.
Most surnames as FNs on girls, such as Sloane, Harper, and Kennedy.
Foreign names on people who have no connection to the cultures (i.e. something like Abdullah on a non-Muslim)
Narcissa
Maximilian - It works in some languages, but I think it's pretentious in English.
Napoleon
Hephzibah
Jedidiah - These ultra-biblical names should stay in the Bible.
Caledonia/Cambria/etc. - Latin names for countries/regions usually look very silly. What's next, Catalonia? Silesia? Egyptus?
Lucasta
Zeus
Renesmee - Not only pathetic, but also stuck-up sounding.
A lot of the names on my PNL could be considered pretentious, I guess, but I think it depends on the person using it. For example, something like Aglaia might look pretentious on a WASP-type person, but would look perfectly fine on a Greek person.
Carrington/Remington/anything -ington
Willoughby
Chauncey
Parthenia/Parthenope
Rutherford
Eustace
Minerva - not too bad, but sounds kind of snobbish
Flavius/Aurelius/Valerianus/etc. - Most -us names are stuck-up. Some, like Julius or Lucius, are usable, but the ones I listed aren't.
Some French names, such as Francois and Antoine, when used on non-French people
Walburga
Luitpold - Leopold isn't bad, though.
Most surnames as FNs on girls, such as Sloane, Harper, and Kennedy.
Foreign names on people who have no connection to the cultures (i.e. something like Abdullah on a non-Muslim)
Narcissa
Maximilian - It works in some languages, but I think it's pretentious in English.
Napoleon
Hephzibah
Jedidiah - These ultra-biblical names should stay in the Bible.
Caledonia/Cambria/etc. - Latin names for countries/regions usually look very silly. What's next, Catalonia? Silesia? Egyptus?
Lucasta
Zeus
Renesmee - Not only pathetic, but also stuck-up sounding.
A lot of the names on my PNL could be considered pretentious, I guess, but I think it depends on the person using it. For example, something like Aglaia might look pretentious on a WASP-type person, but would look perfectly fine on a Greek person.
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