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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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MerryMarigold · 22/11/2012 10:01

(Their real names are not posh. I hate posh names)

MerryMarigold · 22/11/2012 10:00

My kids have 'posh' alter egos when they get dressed up:
ds1 is Rufus
ds2 is Hugo
dd is Luciana

TessOfTheBaublevilles · 22/11/2012 09:56

Cressida nn 'Cressy'

Wallison · 22/11/2012 09:34

Beatrice. Although really what I like about it is the Spanish way of pronouncing it ('Bay-a-treece'), so that doesn't work in the UK.

Also Hermione. Loved it for years, way before Harry 'bloody' Potter.

ChestnutsRoastingonaWitchesTit · 22/11/2012 09:25

Celia
Margot
Cordelia

Arthur
Bartholomew
Rufus

MildredIsMyAlterEgo · 22/11/2012 09:24

I like Carenza, but not sure if it's posh or just regional

I used to like Cressida, Cress for short Smile

Whyriskit · 22/11/2012 09:20

I love Ottilie and Tabitha. Also Jasper for a boy. DH says no.

goralka · 22/11/2012 09:19

Sholto - not that I would use it but it is fabulously posh

MarshaBrady · 22/11/2012 09:17

I might have to have another just so I can actually use Rupert. So lovely.

lakeofshiningwaters · 22/11/2012 09:17

I love Persephone and Seraphina - would nn both Seffy.

Neither would work with our rough and manly surname! Plus would never be able to convince DH.

MarshaBrady · 22/11/2012 09:15

Rupert

Araminta

Ds2's middle name is Rupert. Middle names are a false hope. We never use it, I love it.

Ulysses · 22/11/2012 09:12

I like Sebastian and Allegra. My Scottish accent just doesn't work with either though!

baskingseals · 22/11/2012 09:05

poppy - it's a nickname for Victoria. I have only heard it used by posh people.

LiviaAugusta · 21/11/2012 23:29

I quite like Bartholomew nn Tolly. That and Rufus were my favourites if DC2 had been a boy, DH well and truly vetoed them though Sad.

scarlettsmummy2 · 21/11/2012 23:14

Monty is great! If I ever have a boy I will have to add it to the short list.

manicinsomniac · 21/11/2012 23:09

Another one for Araminta nn Minty here

Also love Arabella no nn and Montgomery nn Monty

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Poppy03 · 21/11/2012 23:03

Is Winifred (Winnie) considered posh?

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Wetthemogwai · 21/11/2012 23:02

I love ophilia nn felix

I have an Orla and my imaginary future ds is Arlo

Lotkinsgonecurly · 21/11/2012 22:54

In fact I may name change to BinkyBonkington

Lotkinsgonecurly · 21/11/2012 22:53

Love Camilla and Clementine.

Posh friends give one another nicknames like Pinky ponkington, tinky tonkington and dinky donkington.

Or Buffy, Stonky etc...

CaseyShraeger · 21/11/2012 22:52

Jago. Although that can be posh and/or regional, depending on where you live. Round here it would be posh, though.

cece · 21/11/2012 22:49

Ptomeley (sp?)

I love it but DH vetoed it.

scarlettsmummy2 · 21/11/2012 22:48

We pronounce it oh-Tilly. I would have preferred not to shorten it to Tilly as I think it is a bit more unusual.

CheerfulYank · 21/11/2012 22:48

Here in the US some surnames used as first names for girls are quite posh. Not Kennedy or Madison, those are common. But really out there ones like Haddon, etc. Bizarre!

Octavia is very downmarket here.

mrsXsweet · 21/11/2012 22:45

I also like Araminta, nickname minty and LOVE Rupert. Unfortunately we are not posh and my husband has vetoed them as possible names for dc2.

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