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Sapphire - chavvy or posh?

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ThePartyArtist · 29/04/2015 11:16

Debating the name Sapphire with a friend, she puts it firmly in the 'Chardonnay' camp and I consider it posh, more akin to Cordelia or Jacinta. What do you think?

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Koalafications · 01/05/2015 22:00

SirChenjin Grin

PatriciaHolm · 01/05/2015 21:43

If you'd read Billionaire Boy you wouldn't be asking...(it's not flattering...)

SirChenjin · 01/05/2015 21:42

Sapphira - like the Vauxhall? Grin

BlackberryandNettle · 01/05/2015 21:25

Sapphira, nick name Sapphie - could be posh?

Marcipex · 30/04/2015 17:52

I know a Sapphira, I'd say they were aspirational rather than posh.
However, most people mishear it as Sophia anyway. Other children call her Sophy.

HellKitty · 30/04/2015 03:10

What about Samphire? That's quite posh. In fish eating circles..Wink

TheCraicDealer · 30/04/2015 00:17

I know an Emerald. If you called her posh she'd punch you in the tit.

Bluepetra · 30/04/2015 00:00

Topaz, there's another similar one.

Sisi13 · 29/04/2015 21:42

Just googled it. He did! He's posh.

Sisi13 · 29/04/2015 21:40

Didn't Martin Lewis call his daughter Sapphire.

SometimesTables · 29/04/2015 21:40

I really like it. Blush My DC have classic names, I wish I had been a bit more adventurous.

Sapphires are beautiful.

If you had a posh surname it might make it sound posh too. Eg Sapphire Atherton-Jones sounds posh to me.

alwaysstaytoolong · 29/04/2015 21:25

Another one saying it's the kind of stage name picked by an 'exotic dancer'.

Primafacie · 29/04/2015 20:40

Or at least, aspiring middle class...

Primafacie · 29/04/2015 20:39

You want posh, how about Samphire? :o

usualsuspect333 · 29/04/2015 20:33

Any name that isn't boring is considered chavvy on MN.

LastNightADJSavedMyLife · 29/04/2015 20:33

I know a very old lady called Diamond and she is anything but chavvy.

Think I prefer Emerald to Sapphire, think Diamond is lovely though

reuset · 29/04/2015 20:33

Why so, poocatcher? Just out of interest

poocatcherchampion · 29/04/2015 20:28

I'm pretty sure Jacinta and Cordelia are also in the same bracket as sapphire ....

reuset · 29/04/2015 20:27

Or loath even, though either would do

reuset · 29/04/2015 20:26

Though I'd be loathe to label any name, or thing 'chavvy'.

reuset · 29/04/2015 20:24

I think that's fairly unanimous, OP. Adding my own two pence worth, it's not your typical upper class name.

maggiethemagpie · 29/04/2015 19:09

I quite like it - I know someone quite posh (director at our firm) who called their daughter it. Maybe if someone chavvier had called her daughter that I wouldn't have liked it as much.

Rhubarbgarden · 29/04/2015 18:42

Sapphire, sorry, not Saphire.

Rhubarbgarden · 29/04/2015 18:41

I know a middle class Saphire. Her sisters are Satine and Scarlet.

anxiousannie10 · 29/04/2015 16:52

Oh yeah, haha.