Both surnames and Christian names.

Davenport, Scott

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April 11, 2021 5:38 PM

Any Germanic first or last name.

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April 9, 2021 7:42 PM

[quote]Any Germanic first or last name.

Ja, ja, ich bin sehr WASP!

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April 9, 2021 7:49 PM

Nearly every US president.

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April 9, 2021 9:02 PM

Old school WASP names tend to be either gender bending/neutral or surnames as first names eg. names like Paxton, Braxton, Asher, Russell, Rolland, Logan, Spencer, Jaime, Blake, Drew, Avery, Taylor, Darcy, Darby.

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April 9, 2021 9:18 PM

Fitzgerald, Stonehouse, Fox

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April 9, 2021 11:20 PM

Eleanor Dalton. Julian Cavendish. Trish DuPont. Harlow Emerson. Blair Grey. Susan Wellington.

Just some random WASPy-sounding names that came to my head.

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April 9, 2021 11:21 PM

White Anglo Saxon Protestant, r10

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April 9, 2021 11:40 PM

John Alden, Peregrine White, William Bradford, Peter Browne, Myles Standish, Priscilla Mullins, William and Mary Brewster and their children Love and Wrestling.

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April 10, 2021 1:09 AM

And doesn't a middle initial often lend even more to a WASP name? William T. Taylor, Robert D. Bulfinch, John E. Phillips, etc.?

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April 10, 2021 1:15 AM

R6 Fitzgerald is Irish Roman Catholic.

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April 10, 2021 1:19 AM

R14 "Come over here, Imogene. Yes, Miss Trixie."

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April 10, 2021 1:21 AM

Katharine Houghton Hepburn

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April 10, 2021 1:51 AM

[quote] White Anglo Saxon Protestant, [R10]

R12 Is there a non white POC anglosaxon Protestant?

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April 10, 2021 1:55 AM

Frederick Neville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower

Grace Emma Townshend Abdy

Samuel Pepys

St John Ratcliffe Stewart Horsfall

Jane Grey Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis

Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton

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April 10, 2021 2:28 AM

Philippos Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg

a/k/a Philip Mountbatten

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April 10, 2021 2:44 AM

My grandfather’s exact name has been listed.

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April 10, 2021 2:46 AM

Any Germanic first or last name. —Stupidity

Stupidity indeed,

Teutonic, though white, and possibly protestant, is NOT Anglo Saxon

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April 10, 2021 2:48 AM

How were this WASP last names created? I've always found these names fascinating.

Someone explain this to me.

Thx!

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April 10, 2021 2:50 AM

It has Fitz in it, It's Germanic like Goldschlager

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April 10, 2021 4:25 AM

R19- Warner is a GERMAN name.

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April 10, 2021 4:27 AM

Charles Emerson Winchester

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April 10, 2021 4:27 AM

Bunny Bixler and I were in the semi-finals - the very semi-finals, mind you...

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April 10, 2021 4:28 AM

Also, OP, it's "given" name.

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April 10, 2021 4:30 AM

Archie Bunker ( Yes, lower middle class) but still WASP.

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April 10, 2021 4:32 AM

Googie Gomez

[quote]Some day, you're going to see the name of Googie Gomez in lights and you're going to say to yourself [gasps] was that her? And you're gonna answer to yourself, [gasps] that was her! But you know something, mister? I was always her, just that nobody knows it!

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April 10, 2021 9:26 AM

Crowninshield, Derby, Adams, Bradford, Phillips, Sears, and rest of Boston Brahmin families.

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April 10, 2021 10:08 AM

R9, Hardly.

There were NO Protestants ( the "P" in WASP) before 1517.

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April 10, 2021 10:17 AM

Think about it, r12.

An ANGLO-SAXON "Person of Color"??

BTW, the acronym "WASP" is both common and historical. Some herein might be too young to know this.

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April 10, 2021 10:24 AM

R48

Your quotes were great, but couldn't help adding visuals....

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April 10, 2021 12:38 PM

Douglas and Kate Lawrence

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April 10, 2021 12:43 PM

Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor

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April 10, 2021 12:47 PM

If you want to get pedantic--and what DLer does not want to get pedantic--should only English surnames count as "WASP" as they are Anglo-Saxon? The Scots and Welsh are Celts and their naming nomenclature is very different. (McDonald vs Donaldson)

Trickier still is how to address the sizable number of Norman French surnames in England (Beauchamp, Montfort) which are decidedly not Anglo-Saxon.

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April 10, 2021 12:49 PM

“And what’s wrong with Muriel Puce?”

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April 10, 2021 12:50 PM

Yeah, I really don't see surnames like Beauchamp, Montfort, Mountbatten as WASPy - they're associated more with the aristocracy and they're a different breed with a lot of non-English and even Catholic influence.

Actual WASPy names - just go through the most common UK surnames and there are a ton there.

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April 10, 2021 12:57 PM

Bethany Covington...my sock at the Landover Baptist site...I thought it was the perfect WASP name

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April 10, 2021 1:13 PM

May I remind you "Mountbatten" is a made up name.

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April 10, 2021 3:12 PM

And not to be petty, but they only chose "Mountbatten" after seriously considering the surname "Oldenburg"

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April 10, 2021 3:21 PM

Allison Woodward. Meredith Hale. Theodore Hepburn. Kathryn Barr. Cornelius Miller. Winthrop Creighton. Hayley Grunwald. Lenore Zimmer. Edmund Jacoby.

Some more WASPy-sounding names that popped into my head.

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April 10, 2021 6:38 PM

Tucker, Parker, Corker, Walker, Harper, Kyler, Taylor

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April 10, 2021 6:46 PM

Diana Spencer.

Winston Churchill.

Elizabeth I.

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Oliver Cromwell.

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April 10, 2021 9:16 PM

R70 those names are all once, maybe twice, removed from hillbillies.

Keep trying.

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April 10, 2021 10:20 PM

R70, R75 are what the striving class thinks of as Wasp names.

People don’t know the difference between white people and Wasps. They are not the same.

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April 10, 2021 10:29 PM

Bunny, as a guy’s name. NOT Bunny Bixler of ping pong fame

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April 11, 2021 12:39 AM

Pebble Rockefeller Bunny Mellon

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April 11, 2021 12:45 AM

Pilkington my grammar school bus driver.

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April 11, 2021 12:46 AM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ actually that's just how i order my breakfast at the drive thru window

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April 11, 2021 1:06 AM

Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer

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April 11, 2021 1:53 AM

When my great grandparents emigrated from England, at Ellis Island the Immigration Clerk suggested their hyphenated last name could be united without the hyphen. Absolutely not they insisted, telling the clerk that hyphen crossed the ocean with us. Hence I have a fancy last name which has been merged by various clerks until I also insist there is a hyphen and that stare they give me is priceless.

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April 11, 2021 1:54 AM

Grant Beaufort Livingston

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April 11, 2021 1:56 AM

Philippe Archambeau Coates

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April 11, 2021 1:58 AM

Nothing with a Mac or Mc in front of it is WASP.

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April 11, 2021 3:21 PM

Marjorie Merriweather Post

Edward Bennett Close

Edward Francis Hutton

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April 11, 2021 3:47 PM