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

Friend of mine used to vow he'd name a son Horatio

Horation Nelson in fact

I lost touch unfortunately

Horatio is too posh for me to use.

Well it's better than Noodles which is the favourite with DD. Monty does remind me a bit too much of Withnail and I - uncle Monty and his friend Norman getting up to sensitive crimes in a punt at Oxford...

^I say Monty, goes so well with Tom, and a fab name too

My son is called Tom, which must have been in the top 10 for about 900 years. It is my absolute favourite boys' name and we are now expecting Tom's little brother. Shall I call him Tom Too?

I know two Gabriels. One is the son of a vicar, the other of a wild artist.

I love Linnet, there was a little girl called that in a book, maybe a Noel Streatfeild.

Rather posh names in my (or rather my parents') circle of acquaintances, the criterion for making it onto the list being titled parents:

Alastair
George
Basil
Edmund
Paul
James
William
Clive
Hugh

Antonia (Toni)
Eleanor (Len)
Frances
Catherine (Kitty)
Bryony
Claire
Gail
Linnet (I kid you not)
Patricia
Harriet (Hattie)
Virginia (Gin)
Ruth

I think I'd use most of those without thinking they were particularly aspirational, although some of them are not to my taste (Clive, Virginia) but then I meet the aforementioned criterion for being posh so my perception may be a tad skewed. I think a lot of it is to do with being posh enough to carry it off. Interestingly none of the boys have nicknames...

My MIL uses the posh names she likes but wasn't allowed to use by her dh for the pets :o So they've had a Dylan, Monty, Eddison, and now we have a Rupert to keep with tradition!

Well it's not helped me narrow down my name choices for our second child...My favourite name is one that definitely causes opinions. I don't really care, possibly because I dislike so many names that I think it is normal for people not to agree but I do find myself looking at the names on our list from the outside. People do judge after all.
I am still laughing out loud though at the comment on the 2nd page... 'oh no, quentin, we can't have sebastian over, his mummy is pretending he is one of us...'
I love that, has really tickled me..

I like Rex, can't see a problem with it being a human or a dog name but then again we have had a cat called Cassie (short for Cassandra) and our current cat is called Sarah. A name's a name...

I also have children with try-too-hard classical Greek names, well their middle names are anyway - they match their not-trying-too-hard Anglo-Greek first names which match their very, very Greek-Cypriot surname. ( Lysander and Athene fwiw)

Gabriel is wonderful! Rex reminds me of a tall, successful and very sexy man, wouldn't even occur to me that someone would use it for a dog or that that would matter.

I made it to page 8 before seeing DS1's name!

I was much more interested in meanings when naming my kids; Xavier, meaning 'a new house/fresh start' and Eliana meaning 'God has answered' considering they have a very long Greek surname I
think we did ok.

When DS2 arrived as a lovely chubby blonde chap we went for Finn - 'fair haired warrior', who incidentally has a lovely Irish surname!

I really don't care what people call their kids; to the people around them they are more than a name. Besides, in my experience you're more likely to hear 'smelly Ellie' in a playground rather than 'woof woof Rex'

What about Gabriel? Is that try hard?

Greythorne, your list is too long and includes the names of 2 of my offspring! We definitely not middleclass (ugh), these names are in our families histories.

I love Callista, my friend has this name and is pronounced to rhyme with 'Alister' rather than the Flockhart woman with the emphasis on 'Lis'. Its Greek innit.

thereisalightanditnevergoesout :)

Reminds me of the time I was in Primark in Cheltenham and heard this little toddler whining and grizzling. Eventually the chav-tastic mother (who had been ignoring it) turned round and in the deepest Gloucestershire accent said "Serenity! Will you shut up!". Did make me chuckle.

I actually love the name Serenity

Jenstar21 - it was for info, really - It doesn't matter if you don't like it (I forgot to do a friendly emoticon!!) - I really wasn't offended - sorry, I didn't mean for you to feel like you had to explain yourself :)

thereisalightanditnevergoesout - I don't dislike the name Romillly, I just think it was pretty posh, but suited the girl..... She's now on the telly, and her accent is way less posh than it used to be. I wonder if they asked her to tone it down?! :)

Me neither! However I live in North London so if I was surpised at every unusual child's name I heard my face would permanently look like .

Phew! Mercedes is quite a well known Spanish girl's name. Can't quite see it as a boy's name.

No, a girl!

Was Porsche a boy as well?

Oh, I've met a Porsche too. Older brother called Mercedes (shortened to Des). I did mention to the mum that I thought it was normally a girl's name and she seemed quite suprised.