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If you had to give your baby boy an aristocratic /posh name, what would it be?

167 replies

calistassouth · 23/01/2021 08:55

Aristocratic/posh names for boys
Middle names too would be great!
Examples
St John
Ptolemy
Rufus
Crispin
Edward

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lovelemoncurd · 23/01/2021 10:51

Tarquin- no I wouldn't ever but as a joke that's the name that's most wanky!

jiggetyjig · 23/01/2021 10:50

Henry
Charles
Giles
Rupert
Sebastian
Frederick
Benedict

badacorn · 23/01/2021 10:48

@Catty1720
I think it’s pronounced sinjun when it’s a first name.

Just give your kid a name you like. Most posh people I know have quite traditional names not on that list.

FlyingSquid · 23/01/2021 10:48

@OhMsBeliever

I have a son called Barnaby. Definitely not posh, and I don't think I'm pretentious. I just chose a name I liked (from one of my favourite childhood books that I was re-reading when I was pregnant with him) as I did with all my children.

I also loved Ptolemy, but wasn't brave enough for that!

The Dark is Rising? Or was that Barnabas?
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 23/01/2021 10:46

Ptolemy is usually just 'TOLLER-mee', with a silent 'P'.

dottiedaisee · 23/01/2021 10:45

Piers
Laurence

Catty1720 · 23/01/2021 10:44

@Rangoon

With St John many people won't know that it has a completely different pronunciation to the way it is written. There will be constant confusion.
Yep I’m confused 🤣 it’s not said as in St. John’s ambulance? Clearly there’s nothing posh about me 🤣
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 23/01/2021 10:44

With St John many people won't know that it has a completely different pronunciation to the way it is written. There will be constant confusion.

I realise I'm showing my age and that children born now will probably never see it (or at least won't have it as a familiar point of cultural reference), but I just can't hear St John without instantly thinking of Goodness Gracious Me's Surjit and Veena Rabindranath, who pretentiously adopt the more English-sounding St John and Vanessa Robinson!

BarbiesWorld · 23/01/2021 10:40

Please can someone explain the pronunciation of Ptolemy to me? My sleep deprived brain can't work it out

LadyCatStark · 23/01/2021 10:30

I love Ptolemy!

Fieldofyellowflowers · 23/01/2021 10:29

Caspar/Caspian

Updatemate · 23/01/2021 10:27

My DC has one of those names Blush not because we're posh or wannabe posh but because we liked it.

Rangoon · 23/01/2021 10:26

According to some old article in Tatler, Patrick is up there in terms of posh. I suppose it would be helpful to have at least some Irish ancestry though.

LandlordLottie · 23/01/2021 10:26

I have a failsafe rule: any boys’ name ending in ‘o’ immediately says, “Not as posh as I’d like to be.”

The upper class men I know have names obviously chosen quite deliberately to help them hide in plain sight: Will, James, Ed, John.

Oreservoir · 23/01/2021 10:20

@CoronaIsWatching. Are you aristocratic and not happy with the plebs getting above themselves?

SleepingStandingUp · 23/01/2021 10:20

The poshest person I know is called Dave.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 23/01/2021 10:19

I was planning to name a son Ralph (pronounced Rafe) after a relative, but we adopted DS so he came with a name (which meant he was the same name as a different relative).

SleepingStandingUp · 23/01/2021 10:19

@Dowermouse

And it quite funny when we meet actual posh families with sons of the same name and they look us up and down our scruffy existence. One mum even has number plate on her Evoke with the boys name on it. Quite a push present!
Do you find people struggle to pronounce Ptolemy though? 😁. I love Persephone but had the fear (and three boys...)
Mumsnut · 23/01/2021 10:18

Sholto

Fabian

Merlin

WunWun · 23/01/2021 10:17

Rafe

Rangoon · 23/01/2021 10:16

With St John many people won't know that it has a completely different pronunciation to the way it is written. There will be constant confusion.

BeastOfBODMAS · 23/01/2021 10:16

Algernon
Peregrine
Godfrey
Lucien

reefedsail · 23/01/2021 10:15

Aloysius

ElectraBlue · 23/01/2021 10:14

Why would you go out of your way to give your kid a name chosen simply because you want it to sound 'posh'?

Choose a name you like and/or that has a real meaning to you.

There is nothing truly less aristocratic/posh than to give your kid a random name just to keep up with the joneses...that screams middle-class, pretentious snobbery to me.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 23/01/2021 10:14

X-posted with Rick there.

Isn't Tristan one of those that used to be exclusively posh, but has since trickled 'down' into general usage - like with Oscar?

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