Thoughts on our list

In order, I like:
Maud
Flora
Cecily
Charlotte
Louise
Anoushka

I think Maud is probably the poshest but they are all completely useable in normal circles. Anoushka is the most ‘trying to be posh’.

Clarence
Erik
Frederick
Gustav
Leon
Percy

I don’t really like any of these personally. Percy and Clarence both strike me as posh and very old-fashioned. The others are all not English in origin, which is fine but less clearly related to any particular class.

Flora, Charlotte, Cecily, Louise - nice
Anoushka and Maud - awful
Erik, Frederick, Percy - nice
Clarence, Gustav, Leon - awful. Also, I certainly wouldn’t associate Leon with ‘posh’ circles. More like council house circles!

Love Cecily and Maud, dislike Charlotte and Flora, the others somewhere in the middle.

For boys I like Erik (defo this spelling) and Frederick best. I want to like Gustav but primarily because of the nn Gus which I love, but for some reason I just find it comical. Sorry. 😆

I don't find them too posh at all, the truly posh people I know have names like Sarah and James, these are more standard middle class names to me.

If you use the term posh then you probably aren't

Flora - like it a lot
Charlotte - safe
Cecily - not keen
Anoushka - seems dated
Louise - classic
Maud - like
Clarence - no
Erik - ok, prefer Eric
Frederick - lots of Freddies around. Not keen on Fred
Gustav - would guess at Scandinavian or Teutonic heritage
Leon - seems dated
Percy - no

Just a note to say that I don't think any of them read as posh at all. Gustav seems more European, but the rest of them are just normal names.

Flora - nice
Charlotte - boring to me, but classic
Cecily - love Cecily
Anoushka - not a fan, but it seems to get a warm reception here
Louise - seems dated to me, I far prefer Louisa
Maud - not a fan at all, maybe due to sounding like 'maudlin'. Thoroughly unappealing
Clarence - feels dated, but not fresh enough to come back
Erik - I prefer Eric unless there's a reason for the Erik spelling, as it's most popular in the UK. Not a huge fan on the name though.
Frederick - solid and classic, but Fred(ie)s are ten a penny
Gustav - I'd probably assume some Scandi connections. Not lover of the name, but Gus is cute
Leon - it's fine, but blends in with the very popular Leo
Percy - I like Percy. People will pile in and say it's wet, sweet connection, and 'point Percy at the porcelain' which is not a phrase I've ever heard outside Mumsnet. It's rising in popularity, and blends in with Albie, Charlie and Teddy though, so I think it's totally usable.

Percy is an unfortunate slang term, but the others are ok.