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What's your favorite posh name?

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Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 21:24

Share your favorite posh name, and nickname : )

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BoyMeetsWorld · 22/11/2012 19:55

Plum as a nn for Victoria. Other posh people I know are called Hugo, Alice, Ptolomy, Hortensia, Camilla...& a lot of Edwards!

TheSandstoneCat · 22/11/2012 19:50

Sorry - forgot that humour and irony are banned!

almapudden · 22/11/2012 19:50

Perdita is Latin for 'lost', Lebkuchen. I think it's lovely, but I also love Dolores, which means 'sorrows' :)

Lebkuchenlover · 22/11/2012 19:38

buffy Confused

Badvocsanta · 22/11/2012 19:33

Neat posh nn def buffy
Love octavia, Helena, Julia, Lydia, elinor, Ariadne....

Lebkuchenlover · 22/11/2012 19:33

Perdita reminds me of perdu, lost, so not a nice association. Not sure why it is considered posh actually. Penelope is lovely thoug - is that posh?

marriedinwhite · 22/11/2012 19:31

Gawain for a boy - as in the green knight
Perdita for a girl

DystopianReality · 22/11/2012 19:30

Jolyon

Lebkuchenlover · 22/11/2012 19:26

But yes, Magnus and Cornelius are lovely names. Not posh imo and in fact very widely used in Scandinavia and Germany.

Lebkuchenlover · 22/11/2012 19:25

forgot the word exist above, sorry.

Lebkuchenlover · 22/11/2012 19:24

"I am posh"

Really - do people really consider themselves posh or chav Shock. What makes you posh? I mean do classes really still in this day and age?!

TheSandstoneCat · 22/11/2012 17:09

Magnus, Cornelius, Augustus. Clementine, Frances, Tabitha, Hester (I am posh and I wouldn't use any of these names ( except Frances) though I do love them all!)

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Poppy03 · 22/11/2012 17:07

What about Beatrice - posh or not? Nickname besides Bee? and Winifred?

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MyLastDuchess · 22/11/2012 16:59

Poppy My cousin is an Edward and is known as Ned.

Lebkuchenlover · 22/11/2012 16:55

Some lovely names on this thread!

Most names that used to be 'posh' generally become quite mainstream as more and more people use them (explained well in Freakonomics). At the moment I really like Raphael, Quentin, Hugo, Monty, Cordelia, Antonia, Lucia - are they 'posh'?

crypes · 22/11/2012 16:45

Fabian and Marina

scarlettsmummy2 · 22/11/2012 16:42

Teddy

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Poppy03 · 22/11/2012 16:42

(I meant to add besides the obvious "Ted")

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Poppy03 · 22/11/2012 16:41

I love Edward, but dislike "Eddie" - is there another nn for Edward??

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MacaroniAndWalnut · 22/11/2012 15:57

All the posh people I know are called William, Elizabeth, Edward Charlotte etc. it seems really posh people have no imagination whatsoever

MrsBungleBear · 22/11/2012 15:49

I am not a fan of most posh names but I very much like Raef (is it spelt like this or is it spelt Ralph and pronouned Raef? See, I am not posh) and Camilla and Cordelia

ExitPursuedByMarieAntoinette · 22/11/2012 15:47

Sheh-hera-zard surely?

I have a Cordelia (middle name).

I like Calypso.

CatKitson · 22/11/2012 15:43

Isnt it pronounced She-hare-ah-za-day?

foofooyeah · 22/11/2012 15:42

Ooooo Corygal ... its got to sound better than Shez-raid ?? surely

My dreams are dashed

Do like Inigo though - but agree how much ribbing would child get.

goralka · 22/11/2012 15:40

are you sure about Shez-raid?
i thought it was sheh-hera-zard?