I need the ultimate in WASPy last names

Female first name: Sloane.

>>Dickens had a tendency of creating names to suit the characters.

Very important.

Simon Wesley Seymour Eades

Alderson
Applegate
Atterbury
Barnett
Bidwell
Culverwell
Cuthbertson
Dearson
Dowthwaite
Edgecombe
Faircliff
Gladwell
Grinham
Hunsley
Illingworth
Jennison
Leatherwood
Luxford
Mewbourn
Mounce
Nancarrow
Northmore
Ovington
Pemberton
Plumridge
Prewitt
Risdon
Rossiter
Ruscombe
Skipworth
Styles
Twyford
Vinicombe

Hope this helps.

Mather
Hancock
Washington
Franklin
Thomas

And here's to good old Boston
The land of the bean and the cod
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God.
- Author Unknown

Revelationz said:

Cunningham, Banks.... uhhhh, thats all I got right now

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Cunnigham definitely. I know super-snobby people with this name.

Mike Burkavich. Ahem. That was kind of mean, but the man thinks he owns the whole bloody town.

Randolph and Mortimer.

(name that film?)

Trading Places.

Winchester
Chesterfield

Maybe look up a bunch of town names in England. Oh, I feel another one coming on:

Oxford

Sidebottom

Bradford, Rutherford, Pendleton, Wellington, weatherby, waverley

TerzaRima said:

Saltinstall.

Endicott.

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Totally. (Um, I don't mean 'Totally' as a name...though I'm sure some stoner's kid somewhere is walking around with it)

It's Saltonstall, actually.

And there are indeed "II"s in the WASP world.

Someone who is Winthrop Waverly Worthington II is the grandson or nephew or great-nephew of the still-living Winthrop Waverly Worthington--it's not proper etiquette to call yourself "Jr." unless you're named after your father.

In general, most Massachusetts towns are good WASP names: Winthrop, Everett, Quincy, Milton, Lawrence, Lowell, Leverett, Wellesley, Barrington, Winchester, Wilmington, Arlington, etc.

Smythe-Dickey

IceCreamEmpress said:

In general, most Massachusetts towns are good WASP names: Winthrop, Everett, Quincy, Milton, Lawrence, Lowell, Leverett, Wellesley, Barrington, Winchester, Wilmington, Arlington, etc.

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Brilliant observation.

For the final word on uber-WASPy names, I submit to you...

Monty Python's Upper-Class Twit of the Year sketch! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss

firehorse said:

For women, two options:
1) Classic - Elizabeth, Margaret, Rebecca, Suzanne, Katherine (with a K), Alexandra
2) Family names that happen to work* - Taylor, Morgan, Whitney, Kennedy, etc. [* These are also trendy names, but in WASP families, they're always associated with a family member. Gender-neutral is preferable.]

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Or even better, family names that don't really work. Between living in the South and going to boarding school in New England, I've come across an astonishing number of women with names like Temple, Dunham, and Jensen.
And then there are the goofy nicknames like Dibby, Puddie, Lizzerd and Pickle (all of whom happened to be named Elizabeth).
And the not-so-obvious Biblical names handed down in some families: in school I knew two Jonathas, though I've never heard it since.

Plot Device said:

REALLY snooty names.

Start naming.

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You can go English, though other options are Scots or French or Dutch. It depends a lot on where your snooty character is from. You can always check signers of the Declaration of Independence and American history texts if it's set here.
Pat Conroy (I think) chose a couple of character names from South-of-Broad street names in Charleston, SC.

San Francisco has plenty of streets with WASPY names, which could be combined for a full name.

Cole Clayton Ashbury
Grant Pine
Stockton Van Ness
Richmond Geary
Fulton Funston
Kearny Webster

Or any other combination.

Chilcott
Dimbleby
Merton
Spencer
Pakenham

Hyphenates work too such as: Phelps-Smythe, Hyde-White.

Smithson
Harrison
Harris
Hoarybottom
Dundersfield
Longworth

Throckmorton

Diamond Lil said:

Throckmorton

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Believe it or not, that was exactly what I was going to put.