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Fancy boys names!

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namehuntingfulltime · 12/01/2021 12:56

Hi!
Looking for fancy/upper class/posh boys names!
I know I know, 'class,' but need them for a middle name list.
Thank you :-)
Examples include Rupert etc.

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Cressie2 · 14/01/2021 13:19

Hugo
Guy
Rafe
Digby
Jonty
George
Mungo
Frederick
Piers
Giles
Geordie
Montgomery
Tarquin
Cosmo
Charles
Ivo
James

MNOverinvestor · 13/01/2021 14:36

The very poshest males I know (titles, large estates, certain amount of inbreeding) are all called things like Andrew, Peter, Thomas, Edward. So the antithesis of fancy. Middle names often have a family geographical context, say Arundel but always have a 'reason' (ahem, snobbery).

The next rung down (bit of poshness plus usually some trade) are where it gets more fun - I know two Lysanders (a bit to my surprise, both rather like their names and are perfectly nice people).

Miles, Piers, Hector are all kind of ok (in my warped perspective)

ProudAuntie76 · 13/01/2021 14:26

Xavier
Ignatius
Montrose
Mungo
Horatio
Barnaby
Thaddeus
Emmanuel
Caspian
Wulfric
Alban
Stefan
Edmund
Gregory
Fulton
Theophilis
Constantine
Cyprian
Maximillian
Valentine

Miltonj · 13/01/2021 14:26

Florian
Elgin

Krazynights34 · 13/01/2021 14:20

Dorian
Edgar
Leopold
Barnaby
Rufus
Olan
Anderson

DacwMamYnDwad · 13/01/2021 12:15

@ElaineMarieBenes, Tasker isn't welsh. No K in Welsh, and it's an occupation surname - Task+er.

Middle name suggestion is Peregrine.

OddsNSodsBitsNBobs · 13/01/2021 09:45

Augustus
Benoit
Clemente
Darwin
Edgar
Florent
Giles
Horatio
Ivor
Jonty
K
Lucian
Montague
N
Octavia
Percival
Quentin
Ralph (rafe)
Solomon
Theobald
U
V
Wilbur
X
Y
Z

Scarby9 · 13/01/2021 09:26

Some fabulous names on this thread.
Cosmo
Otto
Barnaby
Algernon
Augustus
Montmorency
Felix
Ignacio
Julius

MagicSummer · 13/01/2021 09:19

I couldn't sleep last night and thought of loads more!

Ambrose
Bartholomew
Cosmo
Tristram
St, John
Geoffrey
Axel
Nicholas
Richard
Hamish
Dominic
Hilary
Sylvester

grassisjeweled · 13/01/2021 02:32

Let's face it, there are no rough Peregrines wandering around

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 12/01/2021 17:14

Anything not especially popular and generally at least 3 syllables tends to sound "fancy" to me (particularly older Classical names) eg. Thaddeus, Octavian, Balthazar, Ulysses, Cornelius, Nicodemus, Mordecai, Septimus, Augustus, Aurelius etc

Trer · 12/01/2021 15:29

Horatio
Percival
Hector
Edmund
Finbar
Lysander
Hubert
Edgar
Ptolemy

Bluesername · 12/01/2021 14:54

Ernest
Pascal
Aubrey
Rafferty
Fabian
Ozymandias
Tobias
Sebastian
Titus
Maximilian
Xavier
Roderick
Egbert
Leopold
Archibald
Clement
Orlando
Mungo
Lawrence
Ignatius
Phineas
Cyril
Atticus
Edmund
Randolph
Clarence
Horace

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namehuntingfulltime · 12/01/2021 14:50

@DuchenneParent

I always liked Phineas, which I think fits the category!

Although, I think traditional names like James, Edward, George, etc sound just as, or often, more actual upper class. Names like Tarquin are often used aspirationally.

Phineas is very brave but pretty cool :)
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DuchenneParent · 12/01/2021 14:45

I always liked Phineas, which I think fits the category!

Although, I think traditional names like James, Edward, George, etc sound just as, or often, more actual upper class. Names like Tarquin are often used aspirationally.

Angel2702 · 12/01/2021 14:17

Edwin

JemimaTiggywinkle · 12/01/2021 14:17

You can also have Tolly from Bartholomew if Ptolemy is a bridge too far

joystir59 · 12/01/2021 14:16

Julian
Monty
Jonty
Cecil
Hugo

GirlCalledJames · 12/01/2021 14:14

Leander

VenusClapTrap · 12/01/2021 14:13

Peregrine
Kim

TopBants · 12/01/2021 14:03

Cuthbert
Bertrand
Bertram
Benedict

IckleBear · 12/01/2021 14:00

Vincent
Caspian
Zebedee
Augustus
Ezekiel

Courtney555 · 12/01/2021 14:00

Merlin
Alexander (Prince George)
Hillary
Arthur
Percy

@BlueChampagne ....Excellent list.

I think things that have become "comically posh" now (Tarquin, Rupert etc) now sound really crass.

MagicSummer · 12/01/2021 13:53

Guy
Hugo
Phaon
Hector
Humphrey
Miles

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namehuntingfulltime · 12/01/2021 13:41

@FATEdestiny

Ptolemy (nn Tolly)

My absolute favourite bonkers posh name. I don't have the guts to use it. Nice name for a cat too.

Love this too! I'd never be brave enough though!
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