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

Well, they're ruddy marvellous. Makes the slew of Matildas and Archies round our way look positively pedestrian.

No, Hester - Surrey - but these children are scattered around south london and the home counties, tbh...(none in North London!)

Do you live in North London, PatriciaHolm?

oh, and a Percival.

I know real children called..

Zebedee
Tzipora
Florence
Sunshine
Raffaela
Jezebel

Mine are positively boring in comparison.

Look, some people have been vocally opposed to certain names mentioned on this thread. Welcome to Mumsnet. It's full if people with strong opinions.

Unless you name your children Rachel and John and Joanna and Richard, that is, popular, uncontroversial names, you have to expect some raised eyebrows.

Many people think Kaneisha and DeAndre and Kayden are low-end names. If you like them, go for it. But you might be wise to consider how you will feel if people make comments on MN.

Likewise, names like Fifi and Spike are original and unusual.....yet sone people will think they are pets' names. Choose the name you like and one you are comfortable with.

I have two DDs with uncommon names (in the sense that I have yet to cone across other kids in our country with the same names) but I have since learnt that in Russia, one of the names is terribly downmarket and decidedly mocked). Do I care? I do not.

I hope you are not upset, Lockets, the name you have chosen is nothing to do with anyone else. But do know that MN is to share opinions. Especially the baby name board.

Oh dear, not sure what you would make of my DS names (they all have 2 middle names aswell - does that make us horribly pretentious, or just crap at deciding on names?) Each DS has one of his brothers first names as a middle name too, so they are forever linked. (feel free to vom if you wish) I have a Harry, John and a George. A DS would have been Amelia (shortened to Millie). My DN&N are Tabatha and Leo (he was going to be a Harrison but DSis changed her mind).

I'm quite into unique/foreign sounding names but for me, some of the roman/latin/greek names are a bit much. Some however are lovely! I love Raphaela for a girl (Raffy for shorts) and Xavier and Theodore for boys.

Just out of interest what do you MN'ers think of my name? It's pronounced val-EN-sha, however for some reason most people (generally adults) call me valencia . I love it, especially as I'm known as vee, however I find it kind of tacky because I was born on valentines day :L

I went to school with a Merlin - in the 80s. His sister was called Fanny and their surame was Hymen.

To the previous poster who called all their dogs Ben - My MiL's next door neighbour calls all her black labs Sambo. Can you imagine walking that dog for her

You may not be surprised to hear she lives in Esher...

PS I like the name Rex too.

India is way past being posh, or even bohemian mc these days.
The 'posh' people I know have James, William, Oliver, Harry, and such like.
How odd that Hamish should come up - surely that's just...Scottish?

If names are being discussed in general then honest opinions are fine IMO.

As soon as someone says they've used the name then usually no-one else would make a negative comment about it on that thread. Obviously this does put an end to honest opinions about that particular name, but at least no-one gets too upset.

On very long threads it can be difficult to trawl through to check no-one has a name you're about to comment on and it would be unreasonable to expect that of everyone who comes on here.

Some MNers are so lovely - like on another name thread where I said I wasn't completely sure at first about DD's middle name "Ursula", but agreed to it as it was DH's suggestion, and he told me it meant "little she-bear" which is quite cute - especially when we'd seen a little wild bear emerging out of the woods one spring day when we lived in Japan.
Anyway lots of MNers were so sweet and said they loved the name. Such lovely manners !
Unlike one or two people on this thread who seem to want to persist in being rude and potentially hurtful
I know a little boy called "Rui", which apparently means "prince", so that has a similar meaning to Rex - or should that be REX - as on coins !
Sarah means "princess" and that has always been a popular and sweet name.

come on everlong, you gotta tell us which name you used now.....

I know what you mean about strange forces. My 3 boys all have really popular names, (I won't say common ) and I tried hard to choose names that were lovely but not too popular. Everyone immediately seemed to have the same idea! But, as I always say, they are popular for a reason.

It is so personal! We had chosen Jessica and then my brother asked if they could use it and we were happy to say yep because we had realised that it was getting very popular! DH being a teacher he led the way in wanting his children not to be one of several in the same class of that name. Now this is easier said than done as strange forces are at work and people opt for the same name unbeknownst to each other - e.g. Evie, Evie everywhere! (where did that come from?)
We like classic and not an encumbrance for little person and a middle name that they could choose to use instead, oh and family Christian names to engender a sense of identity. I too loved 'Arabella' as she is the feisty heroine in Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood books. But actually it seems to me that the name becomes the label for the person and fades into them so to speak. So apart from confusion/embarrassment on introduction is not that important.
It is fun thinking about them though!

LOVE the name Rex! Is on shortlist for any future DS.

We used to have a dog called Rosie; it's now my DD's middle name (well, Rose is). How will I cope with the confusion?

wow, some right nasty bitches here!

I like Rex, and I like 'posh' names. So sue me.

ooops Xpost sorry ..

jesus there actually IS someone that's named their daughter Muffin??????? I was joking FFS!!!

Ooops now I'm worried if I've offended anyone!