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Girls names like Angus, Casper, Hugh, Monty, Benedict

90 replies

pigglepot · 15/06/2021 21:44

Basically posh names that aren't very common. I can't think of what the girls names equivalents would be. Ideas?

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TatianaBis · 15/06/2021 22:46

Names can change though

Agreed. In the 80s the only Olivias I knew were UMC friends of my mum.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 15/06/2021 22:40

I've never met a posh one but I've always thought of Catherine as quite a posh name.

Antoinette
Georgeanne.
Anastasia.

irresistibleoverwhelm · 15/06/2021 22:37

The two Didos I know really are very posh (one in her 60s and one aged two!) I do think it’s a cute toddler name though.

Names can change though, so beware…remember how Chloe was really unusual and super-posh in the 80s and 90s? And then it suddenly became massively, massively popular and…a bit the reverse. Or Isabella in the last decade or so - once was unusual, now every reception cohort has at least three.

So if you really want to go posh you have to choose something you think really won’t suddenly leap in popularity…

My own DD’s name is mentioned by a poster upthread and I had liked it for years - then around the time DD was born it had a little burst of popularity! I was well pissed off Grin - but I called her it anyway Smile

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 15/06/2021 22:36

Antigone. Florianna. Florabelle. Valentina. Trixibelle. Therese.
Martiana. Penelope. Arabella. Octavia. Calliope. Fabienne. Henrietta.
Elizabetta. Josephina. Thomasina. Dorothea. Evangeline. Miriam.

Tillygetsit · 15/06/2021 22:36

Jacintha
Jocelyn
Thomasina
Vanessa

GreyhoundG1rl · 15/06/2021 22:32

Perdita reminds me of 101 Dalmatians. (That attempt autocorrected to predator Hmm)

hamsterchump · 15/06/2021 22:30

Should have been Perdita (auto correct)

TatianaBis · 15/06/2021 22:29

I don’t give a fuck about that stupid woman. She’s not who I associate with the name at all.

hamsterchump · 15/06/2021 22:29

Pereira
Francesca

Classica · 15/06/2021 22:26

Dido Harding has killed that name for me. Useless woman.

She is posh though.

GreyhoundG1rl · 15/06/2021 22:23

Three if you count a childhood friend called Dido Boothroyd Brooks. 😂
No question about it, then 😂

Chwaraeteg · 15/06/2021 22:23

Beatrice, Margot, Elspeth, Rosina, Gwendoline, Miriam, Joy, Diana, Helene/Helena, Constance, Camilla, Pippa/phillipa, Jinny, Harriet, Alexandra, Jessamine, Anna.

TatianaBis · 15/06/2021 22:19

@GreyhoundG1rl

Is Dido posh? It sounds quite the opposite (but then I've never met one).
Definitely. I know two. Three if you count a childhood friend called Dido Boothroyd Brooks. 😂
FindingMeno · 15/06/2021 22:18

Imogen, Zara, Alexia, Juliet, Sophia, Elizabeth, Ophelia, Peta, Annabel, Nora, Belinda, Margot, Coco, Prudence, Winifred.

QueenofDestruction · 15/06/2021 22:15

Aurelia, Beatrice, Victoria, Arabella,Georgina,

GreyhoundG1rl · 15/06/2021 22:13

Is Dido posh? It sounds quite the opposite (but then I've never met one).

Boomshakalack · 15/06/2021 22:13

Dominique
Lucinda
Venetia
Miranda
Harriet

TatianaBis · 15/06/2021 22:11

Verity is not remotely posh.

Venetia
Cosima
Artemis
Dido
Iseult
Oriel

Ellmau · 15/06/2021 22:09

Artemis
Araminta
Lucasta
Cressida
Cassandra
Felicia
Richenda
Alethea
Alathea
Rosamund
Astraea
Antonia
Frederica
Constance
Brilliana
Alexandra
Selina
Virginia
Perdita
Persephone
Augusta
Sabina
Dorothea
Theodora
Fenella
Lucinda

Cornishmumofone · 15/06/2021 22:05

Verity, Claudia, Hermione, Felicity, Constance, Penelope, Victoria, Allegra, Harriet, Lucinda, Sophia, Camilla, Evangeline, Jemima, Octavia, Primrose, Portia, Rosamund, Thea, Veronica, Poppy, Alexandra, Martha, Charlotte, Frances, Suzannah, Caroline.

Classica · 15/06/2021 22:01

Call her Jane, nickname Biffy. That would be very UC.

proopher · 15/06/2021 21:59

Agree with Allegra and Cressida

Cosima
Octavia
Heloise
Kinvara
Camilla
Lucinda
Athena
Cordelia

StyleAndLasers · 15/06/2021 21:57

Seraphina
Ottilie
Serena
Florence
I find The Telegraph baby announcements a good source! announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/announcements

Kiki275 · 15/06/2021 21:56

Harriet?x

Chunkymenrock · 15/06/2021 21:56

Fenella, Tabitha

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