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⌈ Secret Post #5993 ⌋

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Re: Quick question.

[(Anonymous)]

Not a Brit, but I think the background of your character would come into play here because if you want the name to sound right for their social class and station, you have to first know what their class and station is. Are they old money or new money? Who were their parents and what did their parents do? How far back can they trace their lineage and where do their ancestors come from? Any noble titles or connections to the aristocracy there? What schools did they go to? Because readers will expect rather different names from a rich guy who grew up in Liverpool whose parents were a teacher and a longshoreman but made his money in business, vs. a rich guy whose ancestors came over with William the Conqueror with estates in Norfolk and Kent.

I don't think "Addingleigh" works because (as others have pointed out) it sounds like a made-up name chosen by white Americans who don't have the sense to realize that complicating the spelling doesn't make the name more high class - Kayleigh, Rileigh, Charleigh, etc. Witness the horror:

https://listophile.com/names/baby/girl/ending/leigh/

Even as a surname, it doesn't work, unless your character's family wanted to make up a new surname for some reason and also didn't have the sense to choose wisely. You want something that's not super common, but isn't terribly outlandish, either. Try these:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_surnames_from_Old_English
https://honeyname.com/british-last-names/

You can also double-barrel it. "Addingleigh" wouldn't work, but "Addington-Leigh" might, for example.