<p>a fictional prep school's name for my friend's book. "Anything that sounds elite and expensive", she said. </p>
<p>I couldn't find the perfect name. :(</p>
<p>Take the name of a Connecticut town and add “Academy”, “Prep” or “The…School”. </p>
<p>Wallingford Academy
Stamford Prep
The Fairfield School</p>
<p>Grab a map and see what hits you.</p>
<p>Try this site: <a href=“Surname Site Find My Ancestors and Surname Origins and Surname Meanings in Free Genealogy Sites Directory and Free Geneology Queries and Records”>Surname Site Find My Ancestors and Surname Origins and Surname Meanings in Free Genealogy Sites Directory and Free Geneology Queries and Records. Select a surname from a Harvard class of 18<strong>. (Or Yale class of 18</strong>, etc.) Surname should be one or two syllables, unusual, and not used for a current school, nor too well known.</p>
<p>Don’t use: Cabot, Lodge, Lowell, Saltonstall, Forbes.
Already in use: Brown, Smith, Phillips, Choate, Hotchkiss, Abbot, Loomis.</p>
<p>The list of Presbyterian church trustees, or Iowa fish & game wardens, on the same site, are also useful. </p>
<p>You could invent a back story! After the heartbreak of catching no fish in the summer of ****, ____ decided to found a girls’ school back East, where no one knew his shame.</p>
<p>Goodness. And we both had spent days trying to figure a name.
Thanks a lot y’all 
Awesome idea too Periwinkle. I’ll make sure she invent that.</p>
<p>Bridgeport Academy xD</p>
<p>Wigglesworth Academy</p>
<p>Prepschool Academy. :)</p>
<p>^ Very nice. :P</p>