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Help[Opinions] Re: Thayer
in reply to a message by Pickles
I really don't like Th- guy names.
If it were pronounced like tay-er, taw-yer, tah-yer - I might see a little bit of appeal.
But I guess that's moot because, it's like sayer with a lisp, isn't it.
Wikipedia says Thayer is a "Boston Brahmin family" ... barf.
I would not have been able to notice though, whether Thayer were actually the name of any particular family.
I don't think I'd ever have noticed the name if I met one briefly. It's just another surname name.
Not much better or worse than any other. Well, better than about 60% of them, I'll give it that.
Who uses a name like that? Is it really preppy? My impression isn't preppy exactly. More just hopeful to give a frosty, natty, secure impression to the rest of us. Vibe like being in a locker room, boardroom, or barracks, where everyone is just called by their surname. Like Peyton and Greyson and Brooks. Hypermasculine names for aloof agents and contenders, with whom one is never on a first-name basis. It does not even seem very modern to me.
Once they are the names of friends, they do seem to change a little - but usually not enough for me to really like them as names.
Thayer does benefit slightly from similarity to Taylor. Makes it slightly less surnamey-feeling, since I've grown somewhat used to Taylor as a fn.
- mirfak
If it were pronounced like tay-er, taw-yer, tah-yer - I might see a little bit of appeal.
But I guess that's moot because, it's like sayer with a lisp, isn't it.
Wikipedia says Thayer is a "Boston Brahmin family" ... barf.
I would not have been able to notice though, whether Thayer were actually the name of any particular family.
I don't think I'd ever have noticed the name if I met one briefly. It's just another surname name.
Not much better or worse than any other. Well, better than about 60% of them, I'll give it that.
Who uses a name like that? Is it really preppy? My impression isn't preppy exactly. More just hopeful to give a frosty, natty, secure impression to the rest of us. Vibe like being in a locker room, boardroom, or barracks, where everyone is just called by their surname. Like Peyton and Greyson and Brooks. Hypermasculine names for aloof agents and contenders, with whom one is never on a first-name basis. It does not even seem very modern to me.
Once they are the names of friends, they do seem to change a little - but usually not enough for me to really like them as names.
Thayer does benefit slightly from similarity to Taylor. Makes it slightly less surnamey-feeling, since I've grown somewhat used to Taylor as a fn.
- mirfak
This message was edited 8/14/2023, 12:52 PM
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