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Sophisticated old money names

109 replies

Aglassaday · 28/07/2024 20:45

Hi everyone

I am looking for sophisticated or old money style names both boys and girls, I think that’s the right word for my style but correct me if I’m wrong

these are ones I like so far so you know my style:

girls:
Ramona
Estella
Meredith
Clementine
Lotta
Adina
Elena
Adelaide
Seraphina
Pippa
Cecelia
Ada
Daphne
Allegra
Rosa
Cara
Alice
Emilia

boys:
Hugo
Ralph
Jasper
Beau
Sterling
Julian
Hector
Cassius
Felix
Otis
Wilfred

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BlackStrayCat · 30/07/2024 12:16

😂

Levoitcool · 30/07/2024 12:14

BlackStrayCat · 30/07/2024 12:12

Go with Katie Price.

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😂😂 Prince Price. No idea why that’s tickled me so much

BlackStrayCat · 30/07/2024 12:13

What did Trump call hie children? Go with that.
Toujours classe.

BlackStrayCat · 30/07/2024 12:12

Levoitcool · 30/07/2024 12:10

Kingy, Queenie, Prince & Princess

Go with Katie Price.

Levoitcool · 30/07/2024 12:10

Kingy, Queenie, Prince & Princess

BlackStrayCat · 30/07/2024 12:08

Alectrona · 30/07/2024 12:00

How are Beau and Ramona "old money"?

Terrible!

BlackStrayCat · 30/07/2024 12:07

Neurodiversitydoctor · 29/07/2024 12:49

Tilly would be Matilda, Ginny would be Virginia. Archie is likey to be Archibald.

Love Island, shit names.

Hermione, Cecilia (spelt correctly) Arlo.

Alectrona · 30/07/2024 12:00

How are Beau and Ramona "old money"?

NetballHoop · 30/07/2024 11:58

I wanted to call DS Austin Aloysius Netballhoop but DH refused. In retrospect, I think he may have been right (not that I'll admit that to him!)

newleafontheplantjohn · 30/07/2024 11:54

Hummingbird75 · 29/07/2024 13:19

Since when has Pamela and Daphne been old money. I think people might be having a laugh here tbh op!! 😂

Pamela absolutely is.

Just because it has a resurgence in the 70s / 80s doesn't detract from that.

Agree about Daphne, I wouldn't have thought that fitted the bill.

trainboundfornowhere · 29/07/2024 21:44

Alice
Catherine
Georgiana
Georgina
Helena
Harriet
Elizabeth
Mary
Margaret
Violet
Antonia
Victoria
Beatrice
Beatrix
Diana
Caroline
Susannah
Blanche
Augusta
Sophia
Matilda

Henry
William
Edward
George
Leopold
Richard
John
James
Frederick
Archibald
Ambrose
Barnaby
Charles

muffledvoice · 29/07/2024 21:03

Clara
Fenella
Janice
Cassandra
Claudia
Felicity
Sapphire
Charity
Eliza
Janie

Simon
Tony
Stephen
Hugo
George
Cassius
Terrence
Lawrence
Hubert
Howard

mitogoshi · 29/07/2024 20:54

Just read some Jilly Cooper.

Though real old money names are mostly biblical and/or royal

YellowAsteroid · 29/07/2024 20:46

I always think that Pandora as a "posh" name was Sue Townsend's joke or parody of a certain sort of aspirational middle-class family.

To me, it's a name for a dog or a pony.

Tretchikoff · 29/07/2024 20:33

Pandora

Aligirlbear · 29/07/2024 20:06

MidnightPatrol · 29/07/2024 11:10

Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter was called Adelaide.

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Her aunt was Queen Adelaide. Her eldest daughter was Victoria. Her other daughters were Helena, Alice, Louise and Beatrice

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 29/07/2024 19:17

Polarnight no problem, just suggesting it as another name that might fit the bill.

Polarnight · 29/07/2024 19:16

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 29/07/2024 18:48

I think miniaturepixieonacid's list is pretty much spot on except I think most really posh people would roll their eyes a bit at Tallulah.

I also once met a very posh-seeming boy called Cormac.

What's the problem with Cormac?

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 29/07/2024 18:48

I think miniaturepixieonacid's list is pretty much spot on except I think most really posh people would roll their eyes a bit at Tallulah.

I also once met a very posh-seeming boy called Cormac.

Polarnight · 29/07/2024 16:19

Haven't read the thread but all you need to do is look to the royal family for sophisticated old money names.

Elizabeth, Mary, Alexandra, Alice, Louise, Charlotte, Beatrice, Anne, Victoria, for example

For the boys
William, Charles, John, Louis, George, Henry, Edward, David, Arthur, Albert etc

Don't go for nouveau rich names like Ottilie

IsThePopeCatholic · 29/07/2024 16:13

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 29/07/2024 11:01

Tanner
Bob
Florin
Groat

Yay! Farthing?

waltzingparrot · 29/07/2024 16:13

Imogen
Camilla
Calissa
Prudence
Harriet
Victoria
Judith
Helena
Blanche
Arabella

YellowAsteroid · 29/07/2024 16:03

And my grandmother would have regarded names such as “Ada” as “servants’ names”

YellowAsteroid · 29/07/2024 16:01

Only some of those are real old money. If you think back 300 years (if that’s old enough for you) you’ll find a lot of
Elizabeth
Jane
Mary
Katherine
Sarah
Anne
Margaret

and
James
George
William
John
Charles

I don’t think I’ve got a relative called “Ramona” (and my family is very old money). We’re about 6 generations of the above names. Exotic names for us include Amelia, Nicholas, Martin, and Michael!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/07/2024 15:36

honeylulu · 29/07/2024 15:12

When I was responding earlier I fleetingly thought of the Mitford sisters who were proper gentry and one of them was called Pamela. Though perhaps their names were quite "of the moment" rather than timeless (Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Thomas, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. I think the only two I would have suggested to OP are Diana and Thomas.)

No idea about Daphne.

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Unity was saddled with the middle name Valkyrie. Hmm

Re Daphne, Daphne Du Maurier was quite posh. Not landed gentry, but upper middle class at a minimum.

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