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Total toff/posh boys names anyone?

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LetItGlow · 11/06/2016 18:47

I really like them! But, the ones I can think of have to many fault, despite my love for them.

Piers - reminds me too much of Piers Morgan

Rupert - Reminds me of Rupert the bear, plus, you can only shorten it to Roo!

Any ideas?

P.S, please not Tarquin

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JeanGenie23 · 11/06/2016 20:06

Audis
Barnaby
Percy
Lawrence
Fraser

Tiggeryoubastard · 11/06/2016 20:05

Miles is what people think is posh but isn't. Kind of like a wannabe getting it wrong. That said - it's an ok name.

Gwenhwyfar · 11/06/2016 20:04

Llewellyn is Welsh and isn't a posh English name.
Andrew (Andy), William (Bill) and Harry aren't posh, although I suppose the full version of Harry - Henry - is. I don't think Edward (Ned) is either or even Charles (Charlie) or George.

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LetItGlow · 11/06/2016 20:02

Maria so Miles isn't posh?

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Maryannesingleton · 11/06/2016 20:02

Jago

Mouthfulofquiz · 11/06/2016 19:58

I love the aristo names - lots in my family over the years. Not anywhere near the aristocracy by a million miles, but probably just as bonkers!

MariaSklodowska · 11/06/2016 19:51

I know right Mitzy I was going to say...in whatt world is 'Rafferty' "posh"?
Ditto Miles

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 19:48

Rafferty is always described as a posh name on MN, but it's an ordinary Irish surname so no more posh than calling your child Murphy or Walsh really.

ButterflyOfFreedom · 11/06/2016 19:43

Ones that initially sprung to mind have been mentioned already - Miles, Giles, Ambrose, Monty, Quentin, Rafferty, Crispin, Hugo, Horatio, Cuthbert...

Could add - Amos, Cornelius, Atticus,Victor, Bastian, Edgar, Tobias,Jasper, Angus, Fergus, Godfrey, Francis, Wilbur

NapoleonsNose · 11/06/2016 19:39

Ralph or Raif
Mungo
Leoline
Montgomery
Algernon
Jeremy

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 19:39

Casper sounds more 'European' than 'posh' to me. As in the lovely Danish Kasper from Borgen.

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 19:37

Bendor is beyond cruel. Far, far, far beyond cruel. Cruel is a distant country to anyone who calls their son Bendor.

Happylandpirate · 11/06/2016 19:37

Does anyone have any thoughts on Casper? Currently pregnant and I love it but my husband won't entertain it (at the moment!!!) and several family members have commented saying its a "posh name"

RhinestoneCowgirl · 11/06/2016 19:37

DS's name is on the thread already - I really liked Benedict too when we were naming him.

TexanKenDoll · 11/06/2016 19:34

Bendor is a traditional name for a few English super posh families, Grosvenors for example.

MariaSklodowska · 11/06/2016 19:34

Hugay Cosmay Rollay Arlay

pieceofpurplesky · 11/06/2016 19:33

Xander
Rufus
Ptolemy
Atticus
Barney
Giles
Maurice

LBOCS2 · 11/06/2016 19:32

I have nothing new to add to this thread, but seriously - someone called their son Bendor?! Poor guy.

One of my exes is called Benedict. Not posh, but his dad's a vicar.

throwingpebbles · 11/06/2016 19:31

name tho

throwingpebbles · 11/06/2016 19:31

I know a young Cosmo. Super posh but super lovely. And a very cute but posh baby Hector

I wouldn't say Hunter was a posh

TexanKenDoll · 11/06/2016 19:30

You have to distinguish two paths on these naming types I think. 1) truly posh and aristocratic who choose pretty unusual/family names as they have no need to show how posh they are, and 2) upper middle class/Royal names that cross over to working class, good solid names that won't scare the horses or upset the middle classes

Of my family/friends

In 1)

Waldorf
Valerian
Bendor
Mungo
Edwin (shortened to Ned)
Lazlo
St John (pronounced Sinjun)
Aldred
Alfred
Arthur
Louis
Conrad
Maldwin
(Subset, Catholic posh: Benedict, Dominic, Miles, Edmund)
(Subset, Jewish posh: Max, Bernard, Robert, Jacob)

In 2)
William
Charles
Henry
George
Edward
Hugh
Phillip etc

A lot of the names already mentioned I would identify with well to do, urban upper middle class, very nice names, but not 'posh' in the old sense.

Auntpodder · 11/06/2016 19:30

Lysander (I know of two)

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 19:28

announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/announcements

Some poor kid has been called Bunker!

Tiggeryoubastard · 11/06/2016 19:28

Hunter?

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 19:27

Look up the birth announcement in the Telegraph to see what names the toffs are using these days. I suspect a lot of them go for un-toffish names like Samuel and Thomas.

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