URGENT. What proper names come to your mind when you read a story about "chavs"?
I need to know this in order to adapt a short translation from Spanish into English. I know that answering this question can be offensive for some people, but in Spanish we have some prototypical names that evoke in our mind the image of a person similar to a "chav". These names could be for example Jessica, Jennifer or Jonathan. I need to replace them in my translation so that native speakers of English could imagine a person like that when reading the story I'm translating.

Thanks!

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URGENT. What proper names come to your mind when you read a story about "chavs"?
I need to know this in order to adapt a short translation from Spanish into English. I know that answering this question can be offensive for some people, but in Spanish we have some prototypical names that evoke in our mind the image of a person similar to a "chav". These names could be for example Jessica, Jennifer or Jonathan. I need to replace them in my translation so that native speakers of English could imagine a person like that when reading the story I'm translating.

Thanks!

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"Chav" is unknown in Canada.  Wikipedia does have an article on it.

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There is no one standard word across English you can use. In Australia for example, there is no equivalent term - or at least none that I've heard of.

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It is a British English word, it isn't well known in the US ,  and judging by the other comments it isn't known in most of the colonies. It is only known to me because I have watched thousands of hours of British TV. On that basis I can very confidently say to just use whatever names you like. That type of person doesn't have a particular type of name. A diminutive form of the name would be better. ( meaning instead of "Rick" , use "Ricky" instead of " John" use "Johnny" ""Jessica" should be "Jess" or "Jessy" )
(edited to complete the last sentence)

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New Zealand: Never heard this word. Hence nothing ccomes to mind except, I wonder what on earth they are talking about?