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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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formerbabe · 22/06/2020 08:14

Hugo, Sebastian, Rupert...and I knew a woman whose son was called Rolo/Rollo which I thought sounded posh.

LunaNorth · 22/06/2020 08:13

Ptolemy
Tarquin
Penelope
Lucinda
Camilla
Plum
Charles
Peregrine
Quentin
Margot

MeanMrMustardSeed · 22/06/2020 08:11

Boris!

Jilljams · 22/06/2020 08:07

Hugo
Camilla

MarshaBradyo · 22/06/2020 08:02

Posh is a moving feast because if they are people adopt them and the ones at the top move on.

There’s a couple that get left in the posh group but most listed here have become more popular.

BatleyTownswomensGuild · 22/06/2020 07:58

Araminta
Jemima
Octavia
Rupert
Hugo
Tarquin
Ptolemy
Jacob Rees-Mogg

AudaCityLimits · 22/06/2020 06:59

Caspian
Henry
Arlo
Edward
Alexander
Charlotte
Ophelia
Evangeline
Victoria

daisypond · 22/06/2020 06:58

Some of the names on here are the opposite of posh. Many are ordinary, some are positively downmarket.

MrsOrMiss · 22/06/2020 06:52

Barnaby
St.John
Humphrey
Zinnia
Dido
Daphne
Ziphora

One of my grandsons is called one of these, my union shop steward parents were horrified.

MrsGilly1 · 22/06/2020 06:43

@FirstClassFlightHome

There was a post on here a few years ago where someone had posted the names of a group of children, I can't remember from where. They were the nicest, most poshest names, eg Jango, names like that.

Does anybody remember it? It was gold.

Was it this thread?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3112478-If-youre-looking-for-a-fabulous-unusual-or-super-posh-name

Hollyhobbi · 22/06/2020 00:34

My dad, grandad and one of my first cousins must be posh😂. Their first name having been mentioned a few times. In Ireland Francis or Frances for a woman wouldn't be considered posh at all! In fact it would be considered an older name (after St. Francis of Assisi) and a good 'holy' name and very ordinary. And they would all be over 50. Usually it's shortened to Frank or Fran.

whatausername · 22/06/2020 00:34

Elizabeth - can't beat the old Q for smartness!

sergeilavrov · 22/06/2020 00:29

My dad was really unhappy with our ‘snob’ choices of names. He’s from a shipyard town in the North and felt I had abandoned my roots (despite never living there) Hmm

We have a Caspian, and an Ezra. We have Ottilie and Neomi, Otto, Septimus picked out for future little ones if we go again. For me, some are linked to Judaism, others to my Dutch ancestry, others are just baby name favourites.

exexpat · 22/06/2020 00:11

Some names start out posh but then become popular and therefore less posh; it can go in waves. But I have never met a Fenella who wasn't posh.

ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia · 22/06/2020 00:10

Antigone
Augustus
Cuthbert
Lancelot
Marmaduke
Maxzillion
Ophelia
Peregrine
Ptolemy
Serephenia
Urqhuart

and not excluding

Thomas
Dickinson
Harrison

also known as

Tom
Dick
Harry

FirstClassFlightHome · 22/06/2020 00:07

There was a post on here a few years ago where someone had posted the names of a group of children, I can't remember from where. They were the nicest, most poshest names, eg Jango, names like that.

Does anybody remember it? It was gold.

RainbowMum11 · 22/06/2020 00:05

*names

RainbowMum11 · 22/06/2020 00:04

Posh doesn't mean awful surely though?
My XH & is DB, my DD and my BFFs DD bakes have been mentioned already.

Posh, Classic - it doesn't seem nice to judge just on a name.

KrakowDawn · 22/06/2020 00:03

Francis, Ludo, Septimus, Philip.
Antigone, Caroline, Hillary.

But the smartest people I know are named Jo and Jonathan (not same family).

GlamGiraffe · 22/06/2020 00:01

Rupert, cuthbert, hugo, arabella, cosima, odette

But generally classic names I would say are chosen by more traditionally "posh" people.
Charles, Edward, Richard, alexander, Alexandra, elizabeth,

DanniArthur · 21/06/2020 23:59

Serphina
Allegra
Persephone
Verity
Benedict
Caspian
Marmaduke
Jonty

Floralnomad · 21/06/2020 23:59

I disagree with lots of names already suggested , agree with Tarquin and Peregrine , which are awful and posh . For girls I think along the lines of Cressida , which is lovely .

Beatrice1990 · 21/06/2020 23:57

Alexander, Charles, William, Francis

ImNotWhoYouThinkIam · 21/06/2020 23:56

The 'poshest' people I know are called Kingsley, Benjamin, Joy and Felix.

AWiseWomanOnceSaidFuckThisShit · 21/06/2020 23:56

Crispin, Alasdair, Freddie, Edward