So which names are "poncey"?

[LynetteScavo]

I've seen the word poncey used when referring to names. So which names are considered "Ponsey"?

[dizzydixies]

tristan
crispan
francis

would all be poncey but only because I knew boys from the local private school with those names who were big ponces

[NorthernLurker]

I think Orlando possibly - still really like it though

[Ellbell]

Cressida, apparently

[geekgirl]

Monty
Antigone
Kit

[dizzydixies]

Kit? really

what about Christoph?

Tarquin

Cassandra

[geekgirl]

oh, I don't know . I'm no expert.
And anyway, I have a ds called Maximus, so WTF am I to talk, anyway?

[dizzydixies]

lol - sorry, I suppose its all about association isn't it?! I always think of Kit to do with knightrider

loving maximus btw

[LyraSilvertongue]

Dartagnan.
Ulllyses.
Names I've come across recently. Poncey/pretentious.

[dizzydixies]

oh oh whats her face

Ignatious and Dashiell

it'll come to me............

[LyraSilvertongue]

Ulysses even.

[dizzydixies]

Cate blanchette's kids

although I think Dashiell nn Dash is ok

[geekgirl]

thank you dd

[LynetteScavo]

Is he Maximus or jsut Max, geekgirl?

I think I like poncey names.

I'll take it Hugo is considered ponsey. - One of my favourite boys names.

[dizzydixies]

I love Hugo but dh won't consider it as there is a wee country and western singer with the name Hugo and our surname back home in Ireland that his dad used to torture him with on the car radio

sigh - surely someone will use it?!

Otto? is that poncey?

[LynetteScavo]

I lurve the name Otto, so it must be very ponsey!

[geekgirl]

he's mostly called Max, maybe I should start calling him Maximus now that he's quite a big strapping boy...

[InigoMontoya]

Depends on the attitude of the parents a lot though - ds's name is moderately poncey, possibly posh, old english, quite boy's own hero IMO (and has never been mentioned on MN [proud]) - but yesterday I heard it screeched down the bogoff aisle at Morrisons (quelle horreur ) by some swearing harpy: and it didn't sound poncey at all.

[JackieNo]

I heard a mum at the swimming pool the other day calling 'Gwendolyn'. Have to say, I'm not sure about that one. It just seems such a mouthful.

[JackieNo]

(although if it was shortened to 'Gwen', I like that a lot).

[MrsJohnCusack]

I love poncey names. am hankering after a boy called Balthazar. Fab

[seeker]

I think if you love poncy names you should change your own name to Antigone Jocasta Ffion Hepsibah and call your daughter Jane!

[OverMyDeadBody]

I think poncey is just a word used by middle classes and lower to describe anything favoured by the upper classes. So it's just as bad as calling names chavvy.

[seeker]

What abotu "pretentious"? (that doesn't llok as if it's spelled right!)

[OverMyDeadBody]

It's really just a matter of taste. Nothing wrong with using a name you like that is popular with the social class you happen to be in. What's so wrong with being a 'ponce' anyway?