Which names are would you consider 'too posh/try-hard/odd' to be used?

It IS a toy! I thought you were going to laugh me off the site for thinking it might be. 3 children later I have never heard of this. Does this mean I have to refute my middle class status?

Strangely find myself wanting a giraffe now...

My youngests name is mentioned several times on here. I couldn't care less what other people think or what 'image' the name conjures up. We chose our dcs names because we loved them. Some people love our dc names but I expect others hate them. If they dont like my dc names then thats their problem.

A name dosent 'make' a person and I think its ridiculous how people have pre conceptions about a person, based on their name before they have even meet them.

Sophie toy

Just remembered - Giles and Gideon for the too posh list.

'basically, babies will be adults one day. unless you are some sort of high flyer middle class bugaboo pushing sophie toy chewing mummy your kid needs a normal bloody name'.

Is the infant chewing a sophie toy OR called Sophie and chewing a toy OR is the mummy chewing a sophie toy?

(OR's in capitals in an attempt to make the sentence more clear.)

And depending upon the above - is Sophie really considered posh, or WTF is a sophie toy?

Too posh - Tarquin and Octavia
Too try hard - Baxter and Ptolemy
Too odd - Zevon and Ozrick

Ooops, sorry lockets. I've just read that you named your DS Rex. Apologies.

I was the nanny for a posh family (Daddy had been to Eton)
Their youngest was "Angus"
I don't think I'm posh enough to choose that name for one of mine !

My DS is an Edward, but I usually end up shortening it to "Eddie"
Only his posh Uncle regularly calls him "Edward" !
(and occasionally his Father)
Think we'll use Ed more as he enters teenage years.

I met a three year old called Rex the other day. Poor little mite!

I'm afraid to say that my friend and I had a giggle. It says either: "Son, you are a king among men" BOAK or "Here boy! Good dog!".

I have never felt brave enough to use Inigo, it is very posh IMO. However, I do love it and am getting braver with names so who knows!
For me the 'try too hard' names are probably the old fashioned names such as Percy, Enid, Elsie etc. However, I would rather be seen as 'trying too hard' than give my child a name that's been in the top 5 for a few years.

There are a lot of unusual names in DD's nursery - in fact I really like that a lot of people have gone for the names they love, rather than the 'safe' names. That includes us, by the way! As someone who was given a safe boring ten-a-penny name instead of the one my mum really wanted, I can categorically state that I wish she'd been braver.

DD was known as Mungo before she was born .

It's up to the individual whether they make a name work and depends on the surname as well.
I see Tristan and Crispin as a bit wet posh.
I knew a Sheridan (surname Gladstone) who thought she was mighty royal and was anything but. Also a Camille and a Camilla but both def not posh.
Hortensia - posh on paper, and posh in RL, and she was very sweet too.

I think you can make it work with a girls name more than boys, or even just use a nn? (less teasing with a girls name imo).
I don't think of names being posh but I do think certain names can be priggish.

My as yet non-existant DC3's boy and girl names are on the above list. And I couldn't give a flying tbh, because we love the names and that's all that matters.

DP's middle name is mentioned. His dad is a bit posh though, so I suppose he's okay.

i went to school with a st john a seighfried [cant remember how to spell it] and a hermione it was in a reasonably middle class area but not that posh

not only is Ludo the board game but isn't it also that big hairy ginger beast in the film Labyrinth? a sweet big hairy beast, but a big hairy beast nonetheless.

haha! emma my area has an abundance of rileys morgans jaydens and rihannas not much chance of an esther or gregor or some such round my way!

OK, excuse me for being dim but is Ludo a girl or a boy? It's just a board game to me .

My name choices are usually criticised for being "common" in a top-10-babynames-of-the-year-since-year-dot kind of way although we rarely meet other children in RL with their names & neither DS has a child with the same name in their class at school.

Your name choice should be just that surely - your choice. Sod what anyone else thinks! Mind you, where we live you really wouldn't find a Rex, Ralph, Rafe etc. in the playground - think Riley, Macey, Morgan etc. and you'd be closer .

is it just me or do some of these try too hard names not sound a bit "da Bronx"?

I just see some kid with oversized pants hanging half off, playing basketball in a rundown court in the Bronx with some of these names....

I've got two sophie la giraffes. Can I use clytemnaestra for my next DD?

I know a Cassius hes a very cool teenager ,not the slightest bit posh

I really like Cassius. Im very unposh. I loathe all the others mentioned. Apart from Henry.Henry is nice but also a bit posh sounding.

I would feel pretty stupid shouting Stanley or Ethel across a playground round here tbh

I love Ursula too insomnia - def a contender for any future DDs. Also like Ophelia, but not a great role model, perhaps.

Love Ralph, Theodore and Tobias for boys. Don't think they're posh, but then I do want a Sophie la Giraffe .

Would much rather these so-called try-hard names than anything chavvy newly-coined.