[name]Hi[/name]!
So some of you may have seen my other post… Anyway, I’m back with another plea for names!
I’m still writing my novel, and I need some really classically old, snotty people names. My main character’s dad is a really successful man, and I need names of his coworkers, friends, and just random people.
What do you guys think?? Can you help me?
Thanks, anything is appreciated. Really. 
Off the cuff, I think of “[name]Carter[/name]” for a man. I know I can think of a bunch more for you, so I’ll reply again later.
JLH
First names:
[name]Roland[/name]
[name]Callahan[/name]
[name]Orson[/name]
[name]Vincent[/name]
[name]Hayes[/name]
[name]Brock[/name]
[name]Alistair[/name]
[name]Mitchell[/name]
[name]Samson[/name]
[name]Ezra[/name]
[name]Dermot[/name]
[name]Beckett[/name]
[name]Caspian[/name]
[name]Judson[/name]
[name]Donovan[/name]
[name]Thane[/name]
Surnames:
[name]Rutherford[/name]
[name]Davenport[/name]
[name]Kingsley[/name]
[name]Bishop[/name]
Yates
[name]Hawthorne[/name]
[name]Frasier[/name]
Rothchild
DuPont
[name]Whittaker[/name]
[name]Bellamy[/name]
[name]Wellington[/name]
Townsend
[name]Kensington[/name]
[name]Fitzgerald[/name]
Wilmington
[name]Lockwood[/name]
[name]Brannigan[/name]
Kincaid
[name]Berkeley[/name]
[name]Arlington[/name]
[name]Calloway[/name]
Westwood
Covington
First names:
[name]Arthur[/name]
[name]Bartholomew[/name]
[name]Bennett[/name]
[name]Charles[/name]
[name]Chester[/name]
[name]Clifford[/name]
[name]Douglas[/name]
[name]Edgar[/name]
[name]Ernest[/name]
[name]Francis[/name]
[name]Franklin[/name]
[name]Frederick[/name]
[name]Garrison[/name]
[name]George[/name]
[name]Gregory[/name]
[name]Hamish[/name]
Hartford
[name]Heathcliff[/name]
[name]Jedediah[/name]
[name]Lawrence[/name]
[name]Lyle[/name]
[name]Manfred[/name]
[name]Quentin[/name]
[name]Reuben[/name]
[name]Richard[/name]
[name]Roscoe[/name]
[name]Theodore[/name]
[name]Thomas[/name]
[name]Vernon[/name]
[name]Victor[/name]
[name]Walter[/name]
[name]Wesley[/name]
[name]Woodrow[/name]
Last names:
Abernathy
[name]Ashby[/name]
[name]Barkley[/name]
[name]Burgess[/name]
[name]Calloway[/name]
Carrington
Coventry
[name]Dalton[/name]
[name]Danton[/name]
Elwell
[name]Franklin[/name]
Hollingsworth
Landsell
[name]Langley[/name]
Lexington
[name]Lincoln[/name]
Marlborough
Mathers
[name]Mayhew[/name]
[name]Montgomery[/name]
[name]Pembroke[/name]
Pennington
Pinckney
[name]Pomeroy[/name]
[name]Purcell[/name]
[name]Sheffield[/name]
[name]Talbot[/name]
[name]Washington[/name]
[name]Willoughby[/name]
[name]Winston[/name]
Yarborough
[name]Hope[/name] that helps!
Erm… this isn’t gonna be as helpful as everyone elses’ suggestions, but I’ll give it a go - sorry for the lack of order, but I’m not the best of people when it comes to the alphabet.
[name]Hamish[/name]
[name]Price[/name]
[name]Ezra[/name]
[name]Elias[/name]/[name]Elijah[/name]
[name]Gideon[/name]
[name]Isaiah[/name]
[name]Josiah[/name]
[name]Judas[/name]
[name]James[/name]
[name]Jebediah[/name]
[name]Obadiah[/name]
[name]Levi[/name]
[name]Michael[/name]
[name]Gabriel[/name]
[name]Robert[/name]
[name]Julian[/name]
[name]Alexander[/name]
[name]Joseph[/name]
[name]Jonathan[/name]
[name]Aiden[/name]
That’s all I can think of for now, but I might get back to you - “rich snobs” happen to be favourites of mine to write, so I’m sure there are some names hidden around here somewhere.
[name]Oliver[/name]
[name]Constantine[/name]
[name]Frederick[/name]
[name]Harald[/name]
[name]Louis[/name]
[name]Richard[/name]
[name]Robert[/name]
[name]Nicholas[/name]
Women’s names:
[name]Edwina[/name], [name]Lucinda[/name], [name]Jacqueline[/name], [name]Caroline[/name], [name]Veronica[/name], [name]Victoria[/name], [name]Natalie[/name], [name]Cassandra[/name], [name]Helena[/name], and [name]Alexandra[/name]
Men’s names:
[name]George[/name], [name]Gavin[/name], [name]Henry[/name], [name]Cornelius[/name], [name]Everett[/name], [name]Dominic[/name], [name]Gage[/name], [name]Walter[/name], [name]Victor[/name], [name]Niles[/name]
Ooh, this is perfect! I go to school with tons of people who fit this category!
I’d say the number one rule is that they love showing off family connections. If the mother comes from a wealthy family, she may want to insert her maiden name in there somewhere. (Not that this is a snobby thing to do, people! Please don’t get mad at me! It’s just something I see regularly!)
Also, lots of them have really odd nicknames. [name]Chip[/name]? Cowboy? Peanut? Coker? (Actually, the last one is just the kids real name.) And they go by this stuff exclusively–it’s what teachers call them, friends, family.
They love the old names and anything worn by monarchs. [name]George[/name], [name]Caroline[/name] (there are 4 in my grade of 103 total alone! And every grade has a ton! It’s the “it” name), [name]Isabella[/name], [name]Margaret[/name], [name]Henry[/name], [name]Sophie[/name]/[name]Sophia[/name], [name]John[/name], [name]James[/name], [name]Mary[/name] or [name]Mary[/name] Anything ([name]Grace[/name], [name]Morgan[/name], etc. There are SO MANY of these double-barrelled [name]Marys[/name]), Elizabeths galore, [name]Roberts[/name] everywhere, more Annas than we know what to do with, [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Katherine[/name]/[name]Catherine[/name], [name]Alexander[/name], [name]Thomas[/name]. There are many Audreys, Sams (all short for [name]Samuel[/name], of course), [name]Wills[/name] (for [name]William[/name]), Helens/Helenas/Leonoras, Josephines, Elliots, plenty of Graces (and other virtue names, like [name]Patience[/name] and [name]Faith[/name]). You’ve got Sebastians, Maximilianos (really), [name]Lily[/name]/Lillians, Claibornes, Francescas nn [name]Fanny[/name], Spauldings, Sloanes, Margots, Patricks, even a [name]Sybil[/name].
Sometimes they like names that show off how well-read they are, like [name]Tennyson[/name] or [name]Byron[/name]. (Or [name]HAMLET[/name]! No joke, a guy in my grade is named [name]HAMLET[/name]! And he’s the third consecutive [name]Hamlet[/name] in his family.)
Lots of people go by their middle names, because their first names are [name]Barbara[/name] or [name]Sharon[/name], given so to recognize a wealthy relative.
Here are some of the last names that I found that might fit the bill: Eades, Hollingsworth, Hixon, McNab, Beckelhymer, Beckendorf, Rosenbloom, [name]Locke[/name], Berridge, LeFlore, Westmoreland, Kelleher, Northington, LeSaux, Mirabent, Pentland, Altree, [name]Clement[/name], Pickering, Prichard, Viroslav, McElvany, Greenwood, Cusenbary, [name]Archer[/name], [name]Armstrong[/name], [name]Mannix[/name], [name]Larkin[/name], Blackstone, Agather, Allgood, Calvert, [name]Hancock[/name], Lattimore, Greenwalt, [name]Morrison[/name], Yarborough, [name]Sailor[/name]-Tynes (double-barrelled is great!), Kellogg, Schwartz, McIntosh, [name]Elder[/name], Bonacci, [name]Barnes[/name], Bousquet, Cavender, Halliday, [name]Thornton[/name], Tremblay, Middlebrook, Rapanatti.
*My mom gives the advice of using the name Pickett. To her, this epitomizes the rich and snobby.
Good luck with your character naming!
“[name_m]Preston[/name_m].” To me, it sounds like a rich, snotty, Republican racist white guy who thinks homeless people should be in a camp and poor people don’t deserve health care. Nominally “[name_m]Christian[/name_m],” but is homophobic, transphobic, sexist, a member of the NRA. Also the kind of intellectual that thinks he’s the smartest person ever but is really a dumbass.
I gave that exact description of “[name_m]Preston[/name_m]” to someone who knew a [name_m]Preston[/name_m]. Without my knowing anything about them but the name, I apparently had the description dead-on.
Did you really just sign up to be mean in a 6 year old thread? Did someone called [name_m]Preston[/name_m] personally offend you, or…?
I’m so glad someone pays attention to this stuff, I had no idea this thread was 6 years old! This is not the thread that I would’ve joined nameberry for either haha