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Names that were posh but aren't now...

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MadameCh0let · 21/03/2008 19:09

THe jolly hockey sticks Cordelia got me thinking......

I knew, growing up, a very posh Annabel, Amelia and Beatrice.

All names that could be used by anybody these days. Imogen is another one that was ouch posh when I was about 12.

So what is posh now? Clemency? Tuppence?

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Calisteregg · 21/03/2008 19:14

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scorpio1 · 21/03/2008 19:15

there are twins in my town who go the private school called Loveday and Octavia.

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WanderingTrolley · 21/03/2008 19:18

The posh kids round 'ere are all called Emma and Oliver.

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allgonebellyup · 21/03/2008 19:19

Sophie
Hannah

Common as you like now

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kerala · 21/03/2008 19:25

To me Camilla is the ultimate posh name.

I think Jemima was posh but now has wider usage outside the huntin' fishin' shootin' set.

Titus will always be posh.

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hatrick · 21/03/2008 19:28

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allgonebellyup · 21/03/2008 19:29

clem/clemmie

beatrice

jonty

monty

rafferty (these names will always be posh)

Unlike: William (now turning common)

Thomas (yawn, anyway)

Alicia (now seems to be pronounced Al-ee-sha)

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SilentTerror · 21/03/2008 19:29

I have a Jemima and don't hunt,shoot or fish.
Am very posh though.

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VictorianPASqualor · 21/03/2008 19:30

Scorpio you just reminded me of a book I used to love that had someone loveday in it.

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noscat · 21/03/2008 19:32

Little White Horse?

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expatinscotland · 21/03/2008 19:32

Isn't the point of truly posh names is that they always remain posh?

Cordelia is a Shakespearian name, like Regan, Miranda, Portia, Hero, etc. They're fairly old so are now timeless.

Other names, like Octavia, Lucia, Julia, etc. are old as time as they are feminisations of oft-used Roman names.

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VictorianPASqualor · 21/03/2008 19:32

Yep
What a book.

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expatinscotland · 21/03/2008 19:33

I thought Jonty was a dog's name till I moved here.

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hatrick · 21/03/2008 19:33

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Tommy · 21/03/2008 19:45

Isabella - seems to be very common now (as in used a lot - not chavvy )

Harry

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scorpio1 · 21/03/2008 19:45

I like Loveday, there a few here, hatrick - we live in Cornwall.

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MadameCh0let · 21/03/2008 19:47

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Blueskythinker · 21/03/2008 19:47

I've never met a common Sebastian.

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alfiesbabe · 21/03/2008 19:52

I teach a lot of Isabellas, Imogens and Olivers and I'm in a comp. Haven't come across a Loveday yet though! When I was little I remember a teenage friend of the family called Harry which seemed ultra posh, but now they're all over the place.

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FAQ · 21/03/2008 19:55

William has never really been that posh has it???

It's a common "family" name on my dad's side of the family and has been for as far back as they've managed to trace - as they've all been as common as muck

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ja9 · 21/03/2008 19:55

loveday? as pronounced love-day? never even heard of that as a name!

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expatinscotland · 21/03/2008 19:58

I've met a lot of non-white and white working men called Sebastian. I think it only has this posh thing connotation here because of England and all its class stuff.

In other places, it's just a name. It's fairly commonly occurring in some Latin American nations.

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