Is it wrong to assume people with certain names are rich?

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I've known some rich people who were very nice and had very plain names.

Then there are names like "chauncey".

Has anyone ever met someone with that name who wasn't born to wealth?

I really would like to know so if I'm being ignorant I may be educated beyond it.

Tarquin Bullingdon-Smythe, sounds like a wealthy fellow, but he may actually live under a hedge.

You can't really tell, but some names do conjur images wealth, whether correctly or not.

i don't know, i wouldn't make assumptions on face value.

but i know a young man with the surname duckworth. his middle name is montgomery.
his family is very rich.

i've always found that to be very funny.

I don't make that assumption, or any assumption for that matter.

Not necessarily. Some names do naturally convey a sense of wealth, especially the really rare and fancy ones. But then again, as fancy as one's name may be, it's not necessarily a representation of their wealth in any sense.

A lot of kids with double-barrelled names today come from underprivileged families. Broken homes and unwed parents are usually the reason for such names.

I once knew a kid with the middle name "Marmaduke"... yes, he was posh. So were a good percentage of the people who went to my school.

I have read statistics showing that, at least in the States, trends for popular baby names do run along socioeconomic lines. There were separate "top 40" lists for low-, middle-, and high-income families. I still wouldn't make hasty assumptions, though. Also, the middle-to-high groups were more likely to resurrect names that had been had cycled out of fashion.

Apple Paltrow is a rich kid.