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What's your favorite posh name?

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Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 21:24

Share your favorite posh name, and nickname : )

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baskingseals · 21/11/2012 22:22

Octavia.

favourite posh nickname is probably Plum.

what about yours?

TeaBrick · 21/11/2012 22:24

Posh name Inigo
Posh nickname Minty
If only I was posh!

scrumpkin · 21/11/2012 22:24

Ottilie. I think it's very posh in France.

poppydaisy · 21/11/2012 22:26

I love 'posh' names and my favourites include Hugo, Quentin, Sebastian, Arabella, Ophelia and Penelope. I'm not sure I'd call them posh though, I'd prefer to call them elegant and classic Smile.

poppydaisy · 21/11/2012 22:27

Plum Shock? What is posh about a plum....?!

scarlettsmummy2 · 21/11/2012 22:27

My second daughters middle name is Ottilie- my husband wouldn't let me use it for a first name Angry. I also love Araminta, nick named minty, and my daughter goes to school with a Lavinia, nicknamed 'Vinnie', which I think is fab.

Mintyy · 21/11/2012 22:27

Araminta (Minty) and Sheherazade.

Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 22:29

I like Matilda (Tilly or Milly for short). But would you say this is "posh"? I'm not sure...

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scarlettsmummy2 · 21/11/2012 22:31

I think Matilda is quite posh but don't think Milly is.

LaGuerta · 21/11/2012 22:32

Rupert.

DH banned it though Sad

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 21/11/2012 22:32

I like Hugo. No nn for that one.

Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 22:33

What about Clementine (nickname?)

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Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 22:33

Hugo is great, but I'm afraid it would get shortened to Hugh, which I don't like.

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cat · 21/11/2012 22:34

We have Hugo nn Hugs or Hugsy

Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 22:36

poppydaisy What you call an Ophelia for short?

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DevaDiva · 21/11/2012 22:36

My BFF at school always said shed call her child Crispin, we lost touch I wonder if she did Grin I like Oliver and Penelope although the nicknames Olly and Penny aren't so posh.

Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 22:44

scarlettsmummy2 Do you pronounce Ottilie Oh-tilly or Uh-tilly? If this were a first name, would it become "Tilly" for short?

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mrsXsweet · 21/11/2012 22:45

I also like Araminta, nickname minty and LOVE Rupert. Unfortunately we are not posh and my husband has vetoed them as possible names for dc2.

CheerfulYank · 21/11/2012 22:48

Here in the US some surnames used as first names for girls are quite posh. Not Kennedy or Madison, those are common. But really out there ones like Haddon, etc. Bizarre!

Octavia is very downmarket here.

scarlettsmummy2 · 21/11/2012 22:48

We pronounce it oh-Tilly. I would have preferred not to shorten it to Tilly as I think it is a bit more unusual.

cece · 21/11/2012 22:49

Ptomeley (sp?)

I love it but DH vetoed it.

CaseyShraeger · 21/11/2012 22:52

Jago. Although that can be posh and/or regional, depending on where you live. Round here it would be posh, though.

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Lotkinsgonecurly · 21/11/2012 22:53

Love Camilla and Clementine.

Posh friends give one another nicknames like Pinky ponkington, tinky tonkington and dinky donkington.

Or Buffy, Stonky etc...

Lotkinsgonecurly · 21/11/2012 22:54

In fact I may name change to BinkyBonkington

Wetthemogwai · 21/11/2012 23:02

I love ophilia nn felix

I have an Orla and my imaginary future ds is Arlo

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