Posh tot names please

Unless you're genuinely 'posh' (although if you are you wouldn't be using that term) please PLEASE don't name your poor child some horribly pretentious faux posh name. It won't do your DC (or you) any favours. Chose a name you like on its own merits.

I am in an upper class circle of friends. No one has named their children anything so ridiculous. There are:

George
Thomas
Edward
Harry
Max
Oscar
Freddie
Henry
Harold

Florence
Emilia
Georgina
Eloise
Emily
Sophie
Elodie
Charlotte
Beatrice

As a few typical examples.

Before lockdown I was at a hockey match at a very prestigious public schools prep and the mother shouting "come on Persephone' sounded like a twat and was, rightly, sniggered at.

It's very hard to carry off.

There's some amazing names that come out of Eton if you check those out x

Well there we are. I suppose that since these lists cover off both all my childrens' names and all my friends' children's names, I'm probably posh after all.

I love these type of names too! And I'm not 'posh' whatever that even means.

Maybe we should find another way to describe these names?!

Destroyed

I don't think anyone has described themselves as posh. People have simply described their tastes as posh based on the comments in other threads.

Think everyone else has got it pretty much covered so apologies if these are repeats

Theonora
Isadora
Roberta
Luciana
Polly
Anastasia
Joanna
Tara
Philomena
Violette
Emilia
Antonia (Toto for short)

Rufus
Spencer
Rory
Edwin
Otto
Percival
Tristan
Jasper
Willem

Araminta and Ptolemy
Bunty
Bunny
Hugo
Tristram

@Destroyedpeople, I know that posh people tend to say “smart”, instead of “posh”, but as that word has at least two other meanings, it’s confusing. You’re quite right about me though. I’m frightfully common.

StJohn is definitely the 'poshest' boy name on here. Someone just beat me to mentioning it! Tarquin and Jolyon would be the other obvious ones. Years ago I'd have said Giles, Piers and Tristan but those are no longer posh (unless you're over 40). Percival soundsposh but you'd need someone posher than me to verify that.

William is quite classless but at the same time is the most used name for the 'posh' under 5s I know personally and that really makes sense.

For girls, stay clear of very 'mass market' names like Aurora and Theodora- definitely not posh by today's standards. If you're posh and Catholic then Philomena or Veronica. Names like Catherine, Caroline, Anne and Jane are quite posh.

Oh I knew a Jolyon...

Tbh if you are using the word 'posh ' you really aren't. ..'posh'

Also, Philippa, Florence and Albert.

Two boys’ names that I’ve always thought of stereotypically posh are Jolyon and St John (pronounced sin-jun). But I’ve never actually met anyone with either name.

The poshest people I’ve actually met are called Annabel, Sara, Christine, Jayne, Thomas and Anthony.

Willoughby
Montgomery
Montague
Digby
Lysander
Barrington
Marmaduke
Rupert
Mungo
Fabian
Archibald
Giles

Antonia
Cosima
Allegra
Pandora
Xanthe
Perdita

A ‘posh’ family I know have a DD called Precious. Awful.

I always thought Ophelia was and I love it, it was on our girls list. Then the Radford daughter announced that she’s naming her DD Ophelia and I almost spat out my tea . Obviously going to lose its class over the next few years so I’m avoiding it.

I love posh names too! I'll PM my son's name

Aren't the 'poshest' people called things like 'Piggy'?

Eloise
Josephine
Lucia
Clementine
Genevieve
Beatrice
Alicia
Theodora
Adelaide
Dorothea
Thomasina
Phoebe
Cordelia
Evangeline
Clara
Olivia
Ophelia
Imogen
Olivia
Audrey
Eliza
Evelyn
Persephone
Adeline

@victorianbombshelter they're Jemima and Romilly. I also named them to go with their very boring, plain surname. If it was a longer or more complicated surname, I'd have gone with plainer first names!

I'm not sure The Telegraph is a good measure of 'posh' these days.

They have simple, two syllable names.

Two syllable names don't have to be boring and common.

Most names on this thread are 2 syllables. I love most of them.

@victorianbombshelter
My favourites on your list are Octavia, Ophelia and Alexander.
Also thought of Conrad.

My DC have cardboard classic names because we have a long and oddly pronounced surame. To have given them first names that were unusual or which had alternative spellings would have been cruel. They have simple, two syllable names.

The most properly posh family I know have an Emerald, which was roundly declared 'trashy' on another thread a few days ago. Context is all!

Emerald Fennell is my only association with this name and she's terribly posh! Mind you it doesn't really give off that vibe when you first hear it.

Both my DDs' names are on here multiple times.
I'm forrin and a total anglophile, and DH is working class Northern, but we live/work in a milieu with a lot of very UC people so I think this style just rubbed off on us. I love DDs' names but they also strike me as slightly ridiculous at the same time I just have such a soft spot for the "posh Brit" names.