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What names do you consider to be posh?

81 replies

MrsM36 · 21/06/2020 23:46

After reading a post on here earlier, I am genuinely intrigued as to what names people consider to be "posh"? One of the commentators on the original post I was reading stated that they considered the name of my second daughter to be posh - to me it's a classic name but I wouldn't say especially posh (although it is shared with a certain young member of the Royal family, so perhaps it is)? Anyway enough of my random ramblings... come on hit me with the poshest name you can think of.

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Tillygetsit · 22/06/2020 23:10

Vanessa always struck me as posh until Gavin and Stacey 😂

OntheWaves40 · 22/06/2020 21:34

Tara, Pippa, Hester, Tamara, Ptolemy, Hugo, Charles, Benedict

HowFastIsTooFast · 22/06/2020 21:29

DP suggested Cornelius for a boy. It was a hard no from me, I'm not sure how posh he thinks we are Hmm

winterisstillcoming · 22/06/2020 17:47

I agree it's not the name, more the person.

Nicknames can be posher tho, and calling boys by their surname.

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mintich · 22/06/2020 17:42

I think its am interesting thread! There are definitely names that would make me think someone was posh or came from money. Weirdly they are not necessarily linked to posh people I know, it's just the initial reaction!

MrsOrMiss · 22/06/2020 15:51

The debate over 'Posh' names as in posh or not is making me Hmm and smile at some of the comments - 'some names are not posh' vein
If we flipped the thread to 'unposh', would we all be so keen to come up a few? Would be take offence? Wink

Lavenderblues · 22/06/2020 14:49

I know people from all backgrounds called Hugo, Sebastian, Quentin or Cecily. Not just so called 'posh' people.

Lavenderblues · 22/06/2020 14:46

I think people are confusing 'posh' people - although what exactly makes someone posh remains a mystery to me, and 'posh' names.

Posh names to me are elegant, old, classy names. Anyone can use these!

imissmydad · 22/06/2020 14:42

*But this thread isn't about posh people at all. They can be called Tom, Harry or Steve or whatever!

It's about a type of name.*

Maybe I'm being a bit thick but is a posh name not what a posh person would be called?

Grufallosfriends · 22/06/2020 14:37

Genuinely posh people usually name their children perfectly ordinary names

But this thread isn't about posh people at all. They can be called Tom, Harry or Steve or whatever!

It's about a type of name.

Imissmoominmama · 22/06/2020 14:32

Lettice.

imissmydad · 22/06/2020 13:55

Genuinely posh people usually name their children perfectly ordinary names like; James, Katharine, Emma, Elizabeth, Thomas etc

megletthesecond · 22/06/2020 13:38

Araminta.
Mortimer.

Grufallosfriends · 22/06/2020 13:34

Maybe we should find another way of describing these names, if 'posh' means aspirational rather than 'classy, elegant and beautiful'. Because I love these types of names hate being described as 'posh' (whatever that means anyway)

Pippilangstrumpfi · 22/06/2020 13:31

Meaning to my mind, that some posh sounding names aren't posh at all, but are purely aspirational.

Sure let's called 'aspirational'. But that seems to have a negative connotation, or am I wrong?

Buzz22 · 22/06/2020 13:19

In my line of work I come across some very wealthy people. Usually old family money. Is that what is meant by 'posh?' All these names are wealthy families and privately educated.
Names vary greatly as someone else said from the classic, 'classless' names, to the 'usually-found-playing-polo' names.

Nicola/Nicky
Wendy
Ann
Caroline
Emily
Christian
Crispin
Louise
Emma
Florence/flo
Sarah
Venetia
Verena
Toby
Sara
Daniel
Clementine/Clemmie
Corisande
Fergus
Hugo
Harriet/Hetty
Bryony
Merlin
Polly
Coco
Rupert
Antigone/tiggy
Henry
Tryphaena

Imissmoominmama · 22/06/2020 13:17

My daughter’s name has been mentioned a few times, but it reflects my love of Beatrix Potter books, rather than our being ‘posh’.

IndecentFeminist · 22/06/2020 11:30

Well quite. Meaning to my mind, that some posh sounding names aren't posh at all, but are purely aspirational.

Pippilangstrumpfi · 22/06/2020 10:48

3 kids, called Rose Amelia, Alexander William and James Stanley. Just good, solid names.

Well, then they're not 'posh' names that this thread is about!

Many posters mix up posh names (beautiful classy etc) with so called 'posh' people.

pinkpinecone · 22/06/2020 10:30

I'm not convinced names are as tied to class as they once were and that maybe to do with the internet and access to more variety, celeb culture and an increase in using unusual names.

I used to think of names like Sienna, Arabella and India as posh but I don't anymore as they've all become so popular. Plus names like James, Charlotte and Elizabeth are pretty classless and just very normal across the board.

I have to say though some of the poshest people I've met have the most ridiculous names that you can only get away with at private schools.

Neighbourfriendneighbour · 22/06/2020 10:25

Slightly off topic but hasnt Jacob Reece mogg got 5 boys with about 4 very posh sounding names each.....and a girl called Mary?

Come to think if it one of the poshest people I know has a really ordinary name and so do all his children. (Peter, phillip, Michael etc)

notso · 22/06/2020 10:22

Wouldn’t it be something that sounds like a nickname? Like in P G Wodehouse?
*Plug
**Beefy
Pongo
*Duckface

That's what I always think of as posh.
My Dad's school chums we're called things like Squiffy, Bingo, Lumpy and Ledders. His
school masters were called names like Old Bluffer Middlemarch, Fizzy Fitshugh-Boswell-Montgomery or Father Nobby Rumbles.

firstimemamma · 22/06/2020 10:19

Sophia
George
Tarquin
Henrietta
Arabella
Lucinda
Lucia

IndecentFeminist · 22/06/2020 10:09

Poshest family I know have 3 kids, called Rose Amelia, Alexander William and James Stanley. Just good, solid names.