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What's your favorite posh name?

142 replies

Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 21:24

Share your favorite posh name, and nickname : )

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sonniebonnie · 24/11/2012 20:57

as in a Woody in your trousers Shock!?

Binkybix · 24/11/2012 17:36

'Woody' is a great nickname for Edward.

Brices · 24/11/2012 17:32

Ivo
Really like Ottilie too, will have to be a future cat now

suburbandream · 24/11/2012 17:23

Araminta and Jonty. Oh and Binky of course!

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goralka · 24/11/2012 17:15

all those boys' names ending in O sound ever so posh
Arlo
Cosmo
Hugo
Sholto
although Arlo sounds a bit more.....groovy than the others somehow

Wetthemogwai · 24/11/2012 17:08

Arlo might not be on a par with thaddeus and Persephone but it would certainly be considered posh round here where every other little boy is called kayden!

PrunellaDeVille · 24/11/2012 14:35

Ludo, wish i had the nerve...
Also partial to girls names Percy (Persephone), Raffaella or Jonquil
Algernon or a classic Henry for boys

Bue · 24/11/2012 12:21

I love Scheherazade too but surely we only think it's posh because of S. Goldsmith? She's the only one I've ever heard of. I mean, on an Englishwoman it's more wacky than anything else.

marriedinwhite · 23/11/2012 23:21

.....well don't say that to Chloe's mum and dad! Grin.

Rhubarbgarden · 23/11/2012 23:15

Bunty

goralka · 23/11/2012 22:39

but all the Sharons and Debbies are about 45 years old now....
and Chloe is SO not posh it is pure council estate.....

marriedinwhite · 23/11/2012 20:31

My dd once had a plaster cast signed by: Lucia, Antonia, Chloe, Francesca, Xanthe and Flora. Risks outing self here.

My DH snorted when she came home and chuckled up and down the stairs muttering that's what you get for living in SW bloody London Grin and if you'd grown up in Yorkshire like me there'd be a few Sharon's and Debbie's on that leg.

sonniebonnie · 23/11/2012 15:22

Bunny Shock I'd think the opposite of posh actually. A bit like Cherie imo!

excitedfirsttimer · 23/11/2012 13:44

There is a lady on the antiques roadshow called Bunny. You would have to be pretty posh to pull that one off!!!!

sonniebonnie · 23/11/2012 13:25

Seems like so called 'posh' names are elegant, classic names that aren't too popular?

I really like Magnus, Thaddeus, Constantine, Dominic, Seraphina, Arabella, but most names on this thread are great (perhaps with the exception of Reginald and Plum Hmm)

tammytoby · 22/11/2012 22:21

Not sure if these are still considered 'posh' but I love
Sebastian
Quentin
Tristan
Antonia
Eleanora
Seraphina

insanityscratching · 22/11/2012 20:51

I love Arabella and Romilly and Raif and Hugo.

suburbophobe · 22/11/2012 20:31

Tallulah Bankhead

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead

Frikadellen · 22/11/2012 20:26

well I learnt from this thread dh and I are posh as many of our short listed names have been mentioned here..

My personal favourites are

Sholto and Hector (1st shortlisted 2nd dh didn't want)
for girls
Serafina and Persephone (1st one short listed for dd3 and was only just moved off when she was born as she didnt look like a Serafina)

I also like
Ramona, Honoria, Barnaby and Reginald.

sillymillyb · 22/11/2012 20:23

Oooh, all the names I wanted for ds were "posh" i blame my hormones my favourites were Hugo, Barnaby or Fergus. He ended up being a Henry though, which was my compromise!

FloralWellies · 22/11/2012 20:22

Sebastian although DP won't let me call another (imaginary ) DS that as he does not like nn Seb

ellesabe · 22/11/2012 20:07

Arabella and Montgomery

henryscatoscar · 22/11/2012 20:00

Surely any name from that made in Chelsea Wink. Hugo or similar will have to be in the top 5 names in Agee years.

FIFIBEBE · 22/11/2012 19:56

Lovely thread. Agree the really posh people I know have very boring names.