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

I'm pleased mners like it. Maybe we are abit posh as so many of us have given our dc 'posh'names!

spanky My DS3 name mentioned 4x on the first page and a few more times throughout thread. DS1 mentioned on page 8. All my dc also have 2 middle names. 1 Maori and 1 family/close friends name.

Like i said earlyer i couldn't care less what others think. We are happy with our choices. We love them and thats alll that matters.

Besides DS3 name was the mners top choice when i posted a list a few months back so i dont think that the name is so bad that he is likely to be laughed at or teased............... ds1 has never been teased about his name, in fact he gets the opposite, as everyone in his school thinks its realy cool.

Have been so entranched with this thread that it actually got me to log back on to MN, years after joining. (Well, and I have a bit more time now that my 3-under-3 are now, almost, finally, in school.)

1. Surely all names used for humans existed before they were used for pets? Or did the first human to name a pet (not an animal) just make up a series of sounds?

1. All names can be/and are fine names, even if they seem odd at the time. I've no problem with Apple, Harper Seven, Tarquin, Araminta, Wycombe, Robertisha, etc. They're names, and they have meaning to those who possess them, those who gave them, and (yes) society. But really, it's just a bunch of sounds in the end.

Cheers,
Sprink,
(whose own 3 are DS1 "normal" name, DS2 "normal" name, DD "unusual" name in the UK)

Cressida
Persephone
Ophelia
Codelia
Shakesperian names generally(am pretty sure I have spelt that wrong)

I did notice that some of the mean people who criticised some MNers choice of name were not brave enough to tell us their own DCs' names... Pathetic really. FWIW I also love Rex and it would go quite well with our surname which is pretty common. I didn't know Rory meant king as well, but now I do I am even more tempted to use it if DC2 is a boy (DS is Tom, undistinctive but timeless).

I find most boys names too effeminate fir my taste, but Rex is sexy and about as masculine as you can get. The poshest girls name I know is Thomasina - depends where you live and what circles you move in, but I had to supress a smirk as I was introduced to one a few years ago... Apologies in advance if anyone has a Thomasina.

ooh ooh I forgot the Ariadne and Dante from nursery!

I live in constant fear of spelling a birthday card wrongly and never being spoken to again....

Spanky - I got as far as post number 17! (for DS, DD's isn't here at all )

I love Milo, Dh wouldn't let me as it was the name of a hot milky drink in Hong Kong where he grew up!

I only got to page 3 before ds2's name was mentioned. I didn't realise Milo was a posh name. That's just how posh I am! They also have two middle names. Maybe I am aspiring to be posh?! I've always thought Sebastion is posh.

Arlo. Oh and my name, of course.

Oh yes, I forgot St John. Beyond posh. So posh in fact, you don't even get royals called St John.

If you want names that are unique for "now" try Tracey, Sharon, Joan, Keith, Kevin, Christopher - any name popular in the 60's & 70's is never heard in the playground. At least the offspring won't be known by their surname at school and you'll be one step ahead of the next trend for recycling old names :)

lockets kudos at not getting p'd off with some very unnecessary comments about your DS's name, congratulations! Rex is a fab name. I think it is rather dog's with human names, not the other way round as to me, a dog's name is Fido, Fluffy .etc I asked DP what came to mind with 'Rex' & he replied 'the dinosaur from Toy Story' which I think is quite cute :)

FWIW, DS's (7w) name has been mentioned as posh & chavvy but we love it all the same :)

Nicknames don't always have to be "for" anything.

but what could it be a nickname for?

My cats are Mitzi and Mungo. I am not old enough to have watched but was aware of Mary, Mungo and Midge from a TV Quiz set I had as a kid, so it was slightly after them. Also parents'/inlaws' dogs are called Mac and Milly so I thought I'd continue the M theme.

No, D'Artagnan definitely not a nickname, because I asked the playleader afterwards....and they looked quite normal too....

Oh Mary, Mungo and Midge.....that'd be great for triplets now wouldn't it?....but as you say, may be lost on those of the younger persuasion...

Heard by my sister picking up DD from nursery, another mother calling, 'Hector and Isis, come here now' - now that's mixing your classical genres, is that allowed, if you're going Greek myths, do all the children have to conform?

And if you call one of them Mungo, do you have to call the other two Mary and Midge (you have to be of a certain age to understand that...)?

Surely a nickname?

But did she pronounce it right, londongirl?!

The other day I nearly spat out my coffee, hearing one of the mums calling out for D'Artagnan and no they were not French. We are in inner city London.

I came on here before finalising my soon-to-be-born baby daughter's name.

She's going to be Imogen or Kate, or possibly Helena. Who knows why we like them. I'm sure there's something to be ashamed of somehow or other...

Thalia.

dessertsinreverse, I didn't realise the meaning of the name Arabella was "a beautiful answer to prayer*. As we'd been longing to have a daughter that has made me love the name even more .
Thank you.

Valentia is a beautiful name.