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What are the upper classes calling their boys nowadays?

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seeingdots · 23/03/2019 07:55

So apparently naming trends in the UK often follow a step behind the upper classes. This may or may not be true, I don't know, but if so what does that mean for the next crop of popular names that will replace Jack, Oliver etc at the top of the lists? I don't know many 'upper class' people but those I do have only really used classic names like George and William.

Do you think there's truth in that idea and if so what's due a surge in popularity over the next decade?

Disclaimer: I'm expecting a boy but just posting for fun/interest. I'm neither desperate to make my little one sound posh nor to be on the leading edge of a new trend!

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NameChange30 · 23/03/2019 08:51

Ooh! In the telegraph birth announcements I see a father who changed his name! A progressive in the Telegraph Grin

Fairylea · 23/03/2019 08:49

The classic names are always the top choices - George, James, William, Spencer, Sebastian, Charles, Henry, Laurence....

NameChange30 · 23/03/2019 08:48

Agree with PPs, most upper class people will use classic, traditional names.

We gave our DS a less common Biblical name (less common than Noah or Elijah, for example) so maybe that makes us "upper middle arty types" Grin (we're not that arty or upper class!)

NameChangeNugget · 23/03/2019 08:44

Jaxon
Tyler
Kevin
Gideon

lottiegarbanzo · 23/03/2019 08:40

Bob

Flamingosnbears · 23/03/2019 08:37

They're just like the rest of us mere mortals at end of the day...
Look at the Royal family there's a Savannah and a Mia.

GinZing · 23/03/2019 08:16

Hector
Ottilie
Xavier
Allegra
Arlo
Hugo
Mungo
Mango
😀

reefedsail · 23/03/2019 08:05

I think the real brass knobs will always call their boys George and William.

It's the try-hard, beardy Londoners calling their kids Indigo Wolf or Axel Grease.

Processedpea · 23/03/2019 08:03

Digby. Otto

WeaselKingHenry · 23/03/2019 08:03

You need the Daily Telehgraph’s baby announcement section, it’s very amusing!

A mxtute of classic and over the top, often with many many middle names.

announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births

AuntieStella · 23/03/2019 08:02

Depends what you mean by 'upper' classes.

Using the Jilly Cooper definitions, they'll be sticking to a fairly narrow range of very traditional,names.

The upper middle arty types will be using a greater variety of names and are more likely to be influenced by trends (as early adopters of them). I'd say the two main trends are less common biblical names (Elijah being a recent example of something moving from niche to mainstream) and what I call 1970s names (though it's probably children of 1970s, so names given in the 1969s, such as David and Kevin.

If you want to combine that with trad upper, then try Andrew, Peter, Ian or Paul.

Processedpea · 23/03/2019 08:02

Look at the telegraph announcements saw a teddy Gary and Ronnie Wolfgang just now

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 23/03/2019 07:58

What’s Jacob Rees mog called his baby? Sixtus or similar...can’t see us commoners following that one though Grin

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