# Is "Peaches" A Stripper Name?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 23, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779 "2010-07-23T22:37:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/21 "2010-07-24T08:25:55Z")
There’ve been a few porn stars named Peaches (cite: [iafd.com](http://iafd.com), not gonna link to it), including a popular Hungarian girl-only actress who works a lot with Viv Thomas, so I could see it being a stripper name as well.
I’m a big fan of the latest album by the singer mentioned earlier, though it’s a little less raunchy than her prior stuff. (She’s a bit more commercial now, too… she’s even featured on Christina Aguilera’s new album.)
One thing I’ve always wondered… why Peach **es** as a name? Why plural?
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/22 "2010-07-24T08:50:37Z")
In Arsenic and Old Lace the mother of Officer O’Hara, the young cop that wants to be a writer is named Peaches LaTour, and the rough connotation gleaned through the various conversations where she is mentioned, is that she is a burlesque performer [she is an “actress” but not on Broadway] and she gave birth to him during a performance of Mutt and Jeff, and managed to make it back onstage for the finale.
In Duffy’s Tavern, his exfiance is Peaches LaTour, also a stripper who calls off the engagement.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/23 "2010-07-24T10:10:53Z")
How could Peaches be a regular name?
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### Author:  [@TheFifthYear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFifthYear)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/24 "2010-07-24T14:15:31Z")
Definitely a stripper (or porn) name.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/25 "2010-07-24T14:35:02Z")
Stripper name. Right up there with Bambi and Chastity.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/26 "2010-07-24T15:19:32Z")
I think it sounds like a stripper name. Ironically, though, the only person I’ve ever known who had that nickname was a guy.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/27 "2010-07-24T15:56:07Z")
Yes it is, or a hooker, so she got the better version of what it sounds like.
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### Author:  [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/28 "2010-07-24T16:43:08Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> Stripper name. Right up there with Bambi and Chastity.
And Amber.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/29 "2010-07-24T16:58:45Z")
The one Peaches I know is a Radical Faerie from Ottawa.
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### Author:  [@Looey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Looey)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/30 "2010-07-24T17:30:00Z")
I remember when I was very young having a super-duper crush on the lead character in an old TV show called “BJ and the Bear” (truck driver and a chimp… told you it was stupid). He had two co-stars named Peaches and Brandi - stereotypical brainless bimbos.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/31 "2010-07-24T17:37:53Z")
Total stripper name.
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### Author:  [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/32 "2010-07-24T17:52:12Z")
I can see it being a stripper name, and I wonder why she’d choose to be called that. My given name sounds like a stripper name, too, but at least I didn’t pick it out. I spent most of my life hating my name and have come around to liking it (or maybe just accepting it) just in the last few years.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/33 "2010-07-24T20:22:09Z")
Even on the off chance it’s a given name (IMO) an adult woman would not typically use that name socially unless they kind of liked the associated context of the name which is (for many people) somewhat sexualized.
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### Author:  [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/34 "2010-07-24T21:27:29Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> Even on the off chance it’s a given name (IMO) an adult woman would not typically use that name socially unless they kind of liked the associated context of the name which is (for many people) somewhat sexualized.
If it were her given name, what do you suggest she do? Make up a new one and use it instead? By the time you’re an adult, you get used to whatever name you’ve been using your whole life, or at least I did. Comments and jokes don’t matter much once you grow up and you’ve heard them all.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/35 "2010-07-24T21:57:54Z")
> [@Not\_a\_Platypus](#):
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> > [@astro](#):
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> > Even on the off chance it’s a given name (IMO) an adult woman would not typically use that name socially unless they kind of liked the associated context of the name which is (for many people) somewhat sexualized.
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> If it were her given name, what do you suggest she do? Make up a new one and use it instead? By the time you’re an adult, you get used to whatever name you’ve been using your whole life, or at least I did. Comments and jokes don’t matter much once you grow up and you’ve heard them all.
I was speaking to the OP’s referenced name “Peaches”. Per your prior note about having a highly sexualized name, yes, if it bothers you that much simply choose a nickname. People do it everyday.
I will admit I’m curious re your moniker as I’m having trouble thinking of a real given name that can compete with “Peaches” in terms of being being sexualized.
[Here are the top 50 stripper names.](http://www.rateitall.com/t-1933-stripper-names.aspx) I assume it’s one of those.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/36 "2010-07-24T23:08:27Z")
> [@Looey](#):
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> I remember when I was very young having a super-duper crush on the lead character in an old TV show called “BJ and the Bear” (truck driver and a chimp… told you it was stupid). He had two co-stars named Peaches and Brandi - stereotypical brainless bimbos.
Yup, I tend to think bimbo, not stripper.
OTOH, the only real Peaches I ever heard of was the female in the _Peaches & Herb_ singing duo.
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### Author:  [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/37 "2010-07-24T23:45:51Z")
the guys in the shower after practice call me peaches
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### Author:  [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/38 "2010-07-24T23:48:33Z")
If everyone calls you “Peaches” you are either a stripper or a poodle.
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### Author:  [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/39 "2010-07-25T00:27:49Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> > [@Not\_a\_Platypus](#):
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> > > [@astro](#):
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> > > Even on the off chance it’s a given name (IMO) an adult woman would not typically use that name socially unless they kind of liked the associated context of the name which is (for many people) somewhat sexualized.
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> > If it were her given name, what do you suggest she do? Make up a new one and use it instead? By the time you’re an adult, you get used to whatever name you’ve been using your whole life, or at least I did. Comments and jokes don’t matter much once you grow up and you’ve heard them all.
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> I was speaking to the OP’s referenced name “Peaches”. Per your prior note about having a highly sexualized name, yes, if it bothers you that much simply choose a nickname. People do it everyday.
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> I will admit I’m curious re your moniker as I’m having trouble thinking of a real given name that can compete with “Peaches” in terms of being being sexualized.
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> [Here are the top 50 stripper names.](http://www.rateitall.com/t-1933-stripper-names.aspx) I assume it’s one of those.
My name is in the top half of that list, yes. I guess your first post makes it sound like there’s something wrong with an adult woman going by her given name if it’s a highly sexualized name; like the only reason she would is BECAUSE it’s sexualized. I absolutely agree that if someone doesn’t like their name, they should change it, but deciding not to do that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
At any rate, the woman in the OP’s given name seems to be Mary.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-peaches-a-stripper-name/547779/40 "2010-07-25T02:38:26Z")
It’s [a tennis player’s name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bartkowicz).
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