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Privately Educated Names

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Flamingosnbears · 28/07/2021 13:45

What comes to your mind...

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Illogicalmadness · 01/08/2021 11:28

Why do you want to know OP?

Themeparklover · 31/07/2021 22:53

Didn't go to a private school but swam for a competitive swimming club of which around 90 percent were privately educated kids and teens

Tarquin
Isaac
Hugo
Teddy
Ashmeena
Tia
Eleanor (quite a few)
Zara
Henry
Emilia
Charlotte
Olivia
Tara
Beatrice
Joseph
Georgiana
and more

Violetlavenders · 31/07/2021 14:46

Why do you ask? It’s a pretty odd question.

Good question. The op hasn't been back for a while....Hmm

Kanaloa · 31/07/2021 13:39

By the way, that’s not me implying I think posh is something to aspire to. Just call your child a name you like and raise them to have a personality outside of whether you can send them to a fee paying school.

Kanaloa · 31/07/2021 13:37

Why do you ask? It’s a pretty odd question, for a start ‘privately-educated’ isn’t a personality trait, it’s literally only indicative of where you went to school. I mean the range of people who are privately educated is huge. KSI? Privately educated. Boris Johnson? Privately educated. Prince Harry? Privately educated. If you can afford fees to a private school, your child’s name will be a privately educated name whether they are called Annabel, Beatrice, Obi-wan-kanobi or Chavella-Marie. Giving your kid a name you associate with ‘posh’ people won’t make your child posh.

Paddingtonthebear · 31/07/2021 13:13

80’s/90’s private school - Sarah, Matthew, Samantha, Rebecca, Frances, Jodie, Susie, Tom, Pippa, Louisa, Daniel, Richard, Naomi, Alex

midsomermurderess · 31/07/2021 13:06

Douglas, Iain, David, Johnny, Matthew, Alastair, Graham, Angus, Peter. Names of people I know who went to a private school in Scotland. Not a Tarquinius amongst them. Why would there be? Girls? Lots of James, Fionas.

Violetlavenders · 30/07/2021 20:52

My name is very posh but I'm very.... not posh?! It means nowt.

Exactly. Names do NOT define you.

miltonj · 30/07/2021 16:48

My name is very posh but I'm very.... not posh?! It means nowt.

Helpmetopickone · 30/07/2021 16:20

Both DS and DD privately educated, both names which are labelled “chavy” on here.
Mumsnet is not a reflection of real life. Pick a name you love

blameitonthecaffeine · 30/07/2021 14:57

My children were/are at private school and they have normal names. All within the top 200 or so at the times they were born. Quite likely top 100.

There's a wide range of names at their school. I teach there and at another private school which also has a wide range of times - just as a random selection across the two schools from the last few years (ie this isn't a class list!): Arabella, Charlotte, Jack, Lily, Ibrahim, Ellie, Jaxon, Chloe, Hunter, London, Henry, Isabella, Chantelle, Oladipo, Hugo, Dakota, Ademola

senoritarita · 30/07/2021 13:06

[quote PattyPan]Maybe look at the Telegraph birth announcements for inspiration as I imagine that’s the demographic announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/announcements[/quote]
Some total gems in there

ApolloandDaphne · 30/07/2021 13:01

My DDs went to private school. They and their friends had pretty standard names.

TheWholeJingbang · 30/07/2021 12:59

Why?

Strikes me as being pretentious way to name a child

Violetlavenders · 30/07/2021 12:53

Yes, privately educated children are a different species and are called Hieronymous, Zeus or Hermione, Wilhelmina etc GrinGrin

KaptainKaveman · 29/07/2021 19:39

Hieronymous
Zeus
Lucifer
Balaam
Jacaranthus
Mortimer
Montgomery
Cuthbert

CatkinToadflax · 29/07/2021 16:35

DS has a friend named Hippo. He is always, always called Hippo. I believe he has an alternative name on the register though. Wink

35andThriving · 29/07/2021 15:35

Gwen
Clarissa
Charlotte
Elizabeth

George
James
Charles
Archie

drtachyon · 29/07/2021 15:21

We’ve had our DC in both private and state schools, and there’s a lot of overlap in the sort of names used.

Lots of well established, ordinary, popular sort of names in both schools.
There’s more kids with a “normal name with a unique spelling” at the state school, but there were also a few kids with that sort of name at the private school.

woodfort · 29/07/2021 10:59

Just as you’d expect, lots of classic, nice, normal names - George, Thomas, Olivia etc.

I do not come across children with double barrelled names really ever. Usually (although not always) “nicknamey” names are just nicknames and the children have traditional full names. As an example, I (and the rest of the U.K.) probably know about 10 girls called Evie. All of the Evies I know are actually Evelyn.

PattyPan · 29/07/2021 10:14

There wasn't even a single Tarquin born recently!

Indeed, it is not very popular at all, probably due to the stereotype. Tarquin has only shown up in name rankings for England & Wales 4 times since 1996, ie there have only been 4 years since then where at least 3 Tarquins were born. These were 1996, 2004, 2008 and 2010.

SoupDragon · 29/07/2021 09:33

What a bizarre thread!

Violetlavenders · 29/07/2021 09:31

There wasn't even a single Tarquin born recently....!

And Fabian (boy) or Fabienne (girl) are perfectly normal (international) names.

Violetlavenders · 29/07/2021 09:29

What, do you think they’re a different species?

Exactly.

They have the same names as other children Hmm

LadyCatStark · 28/07/2021 23:39

There was an identical thread a few days ago where I posted some of the more memorable names from my boarding school days but I forgot the poshest; Fabienne.