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

Well, I really have to thank this thread for giving me some great ideas for future DC's names! .

For some reason that Friends episode where Phoebe changed her name to Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock springs to mind. I wonder if I could persuade DH to name our next DC Crap Bag...

Anything that's not a REAL name, like Flower, Apple, generally just nouns that someone has thought they would be clever with and call their poor child by. You know the child will have the piss ripped and it is so attention seeking

We named our daughter Jasmine - she's 12 now.

What do you all think ? We really wanted a flower name, and Jasmine had lovely associations from our wedding and honeymoon, as well as smelling fabulous. Also seemed more modern than some of the older flower names, such as Iris etc. But sometimes I think it's gone a bit bottom-end these days ( I'm such a terrible snob on the quiet ) and think we might have chosen April as she arrived on April 1st, ten days late. Or as someone suggested on here Allegra would have really suited her personality.
Also, now I've done more family research, I sometimes have a wish we'd chosen an old family name, like Rose or Sarah, at least for a middle name.

Perhaps I should have had more than one daughter to use all my ideas. But I'm very lucky to have her, I know !
She seems to like her name, and it's a good one to shorten to Jaz or jazzie, which also sounds quite musical which I like

Perhaps I should start a new thread for any reflections on our choice of DC's names ?

I think a lot depends on the context and the family. I live in the heart of the Cotswolds and there are loads of "posh" names around here such as Orlando and Lysander and Hugo and Sebastian. However they all sound perfectly normal and lovely and suit the children in question. If a child had been called any of those names in the area I grew up (Northern town) they would have been laughed out of school.

I think the daftest names are those that are not actually names like the infamous Chardonnay. I also knew someone whose daughter was called Porsche (but pronounced Portia).

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 think Atticus is gonna get super popular now though after Harper Seven!

at Atticus being posh.

That's my DS's name and I named him after Atticus Finch cos I loved the name and character since I read the book when I was barely a teenager and always wanted to use the name if I had a boy.

I like it cheerful yank. Love Frederick, and I actually love Fritz as well. What does the mn Jury think of that? I know I know, very nutcracker, but I like it.

I also like Red as well as Rex. Perhaps short for Redmond, but tbh, I wouldn't bother unless I wasn't 'brave' enough to just use Red.

Redmond Alexander could be Rex too?

Rex rocks. I think it is a really cool name.

Am allergic to Milo.

Hey! Just had a thought! I love Rex, actually. And DH loves Alexander and I want to incorporate Frederick for our next one as it was my Grandfather's name. So I could name a DS Frederick Alexander but call him Rex, couldn't I? F RE derick Ale X ander .

Couldn't I?!

Sigh...

Jenstar21 (I have a Romilly)

33goingon64 Of course the people who criticised names aren't going to divulge the names they've given to their children. They are far too cowardly to do that.

Athelstan.
Yes, really.
He's 12

hee hee redheadbedhead - our DS's nickname before (and since) he was born is "Baby Muffin"! He is still more often referred to as "Muffin" than his actual name Marcel (which is on "the list") .

His big sister has shortened (or actually lengthened) this to "muffy muff muff" - poor bloody kid!

I got a few pages in before DS2's name (Stanley) was mentioned fwiw; I'm happy to shout it across any playground. We are so not posh, it's not even funny, DH chose it after Stan Lee, and it's a more popular name where we are because it's the name of a famous local footballer.

All the really posh people I have met have been called things like James, John and Thomas.

In real life, I know the following (mostly from Uni):
Peregrine
Muffy
Camilla
Eton
Barty
Romilly
(at least 2 are Rt.Hons., and most of them are achingly posh!)

There has been a real trend here (in Glasgow) of Struan being very popular, but as it was the name of the Westie dog next door to us as kids, it makes me giggle a bit! Also, I really wish I'd had the nerve to call DD Allegra, as I really wanted to (because of a favourite poem of mine), but chickened out and went for something safe. Used it as her middle name, though!

Everything on this blog today is hilarious & what I would consider odd/try-hard;

STFUParents

Meant to mention the section in the book Freakonomics about baby names. US-centric (so not quite so much "posh this, common that") and talks about how long it takes names to go from being top-end to bottom-end (so to speak).

For those interested, here's a link to an excerpt:

www.slate.com/id/2116505/

Cheers,
Sprink,
(who meant to say "entranced" in her earlier post, not "entranched" (which is, of course, the name of my next child))

I like the way that although it's a cardinal sin to make judgemental comments on mumsnet, it's okay to assume unusual names are posh and normal names are common.

My lab x is a Sophie. Should I now snigger if I meet a child named Sophie?

If my DD had been a boy she would have been named Arlo. Not because I was trying to be posh but from years of my hippy mother showing me Woodstock. Arlo Guthrie singing about drug smuggling must have entered my subconscious as a child. Now Arlo is going to be the new pup's name.

The only name I really loathe is Ishbel. Trying to hard to be posh Scottish.

Phooey to you all

I have a goddess for a daughter and a world conquering king for a son. Only my daughter would cause you raise your eyebrows in query, and in her eight years on the planet she has never encountered anything but inquisitiveness followed by grins and approval/acceptance.

Much better than the 'make it up yourself' technique I see a lot of in my local area

Hugo
Oscar

I thought of naming DS Hector. Love the name, but it doesn't go with the family names, so I gave up (part of me still thinks it is a "trying too hard" name)

Some of the comments about Rex have been really rude. Having said that, my best friend growing up had a dog called Luke and I loved the name so called DS1 Luke :) So IMO nothing wrong with clalling a baby a name you might call a dog

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