Dillinger, absolutely.  I can see baby Dillinger with a sweater over his shoulders and a tennis racket (or squash, or whatever's more pretentious) in his little hand.

Now, hang on.  Why is it okay to name your kid Peyton or Ashton or some other last-name-as-first-name type of thing, but not Goldman?  Is it b/c Goldman is not a waspy last name? Not fair!  

Also on the list of semifinalists was the name Soren.  Um, dude, Soren is not a pretentious name -- in HOLLAND.  There's a certain amount of ethnocentricism goin' on here.

Um yeah, I mean Denmark.  Not Holland.  But my point still stands!!

I'm sorry but I can't vote for any of these.  I know a little girl named Mauragold (short for Mauragolden) so that's the winner for me.

Palmares?

Wow.

And...wow.

These names don't sound pretentious to me. They sound, um....how would I say this and not sound like an ass...Ethnic, Ghettofabulous, Redneck? (I'm cringing that I just wrote that!) Esp. Epitome.

I agree with the other comment about Goldman - its just a last name and lots of kids have Waspy last names for first names, so why not a Jewish name?

I just think of the Chicago ganster/criminal Dillinger. And I actually think its a super cute name (but not one I'd choose for a kid - after all Dillinger was a notorious robber). And Dill would be an awful nickname.

I'm tied between Panache and Palmares. Maybe Palmares because not so many people know the definition of that one. Panache still sounds a little ghettolicious to me. Really, when i think of pretentious names I think of names like Sterling, Baron, Preston, and Madison for boys and even more so for girls.

They must have met my cousin's kids, they've all got weird names.

I must say Panache is probably the most odd.

When I think of pretentious names the first that comes to mind is Baron. Both the Trumps and the Hilton family favor that name, so that alone give it a boost on the scale of pretentiousness. Earl and Duke sound redneck, but Baron is just such a snotty name!

I also think that names ending in -ton are pretty pretentious. Like Princeton, Kingston, Preston. This would go double if these names are used for a girl, what with these trend of giving girls traditional boy names. I don't think those are bad names exactly, but they are certainly super WASPY, old money sounding names.

Anyway, I don't really think any name on the Gawker list sounds pretentious. Those names are just odd.

Some friends have a son named Cutter Buck...