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Jolly Hockey Sticks & Pony Club names (just for fun!)

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Pumpkinseedling · 26/10/2024 11:38

For me the names that conjure up Jolly Hockey Sticks/Pony club images would be

Girls :

Harriet
Henrietta
Matilda
Clara
Joanna
Claudia
Rose

Boys:

Hugo
Jonty
Monty

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BoudiccasBangles · 05/11/2024 22:08

Bunty. I’ve known two, one child, one woman of about 60 who still owned about 20 horses. She was pure jolly hockeysticks and pony club. Old school hunting (I don’t approve but she did) fearless and mad as a hatter.

AelinAG · 05/11/2024 21:59

Christopher but he goes by Kit
Tatiana

Winter20245 · 04/11/2024 22:53

Delilah and Bunty

Hector, Jasper, Barnaby.

RobertaFirmino · 03/11/2024 21:27

Clarissa and Bill, surely?

rc22 · 31/10/2024 19:43

Cressida

DreamyMe · 31/10/2024 12:50

Miranda

thefarrierswife · 28/10/2024 14:55

Feeling seen, my girls are Harriet and Philippa but go by Hattie and Pippa. Both have ponies, go to Pony Club.

RedOnyx · 28/10/2024 11:05

Arabella
Felicity
Beatrice
Jemima
Wilhelmina
Gwendolyn
Moira
Basically most of the names of characters in the Mallory Towers books 🤣

Henry
Timothy
Nicholas (only if he doesn't go by Nick, obviously)
Gregory

TheSnootiestFox · 28/10/2024 08:55

Leeloo1233 · 28/10/2024 08:47

The aim of this post is to make fun of names that are 'try hard posh' no?

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That's not how I've taken it and I also have a Hugo who's nearly 15 now. I think it's funny how some of us are as I said upthread, guilty as charged!

My Hugo is actually a member of the Pony Club, he lives for it, and he and his brother George (also on 'the list' along with their middle names) had their births were actually announced in The Times and not the Telegraph as mentioned 😂 I don't feel mocked or annoyed just typical of my species and believe me I don't have the energy to try hard at anything right now even if I wanted to 😂 lighten up!

Leeloo1233 · 28/10/2024 08:47

TheSnootiestFox · 28/10/2024 08:43

Where is the name Hugo being bullied? 😳

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The aim of this post is to make fun of names that are 'try hard posh' no?

Philandbill · 28/10/2024 08:46

Birth announcements in the Telegraph are a good place to start. 😀

TheSnootiestFox · 28/10/2024 08:43

Leeloo1233 · 28/10/2024 08:40

I'm getting quite annoyed with the name Hugo always being bullied here. We actually have a Hugo and are definitely not posh and know many little Hugos in different countries with normal parents. No idea what this pony club is.

Where is the name Hugo being bullied? 😳

Leeloo1233 · 28/10/2024 08:40

I'm getting quite annoyed with the name Hugo always being bullied here. We actually have a Hugo and are definitely not posh and know many little Hugos in different countries with normal parents. No idea what this pony club is.

Mumofgirls2017 · 27/10/2024 19:30

Margot
kitty
theodora
eloise
zara
esther
phoebe
lottie
caroline
alexandra
victoria
portia
anneka
davina
effie

rufus
edmund
rupert
alexander
henry
George
charles
kit
quentin
Nicholas
francis
lawrence
william

CandyflossKid · 26/10/2024 21:24

Virginia
Rupert

pipmay · 26/10/2024 21:13

Arabella
Araminta
Cordelia
Felicity
Jemima
Tabitha
Maud
Sophie

Benedict
Monty
Alexander
Oliver
William
Angus
Rupert
Felix
Jonty
Jago
Hugo
Otto

ErnestClementine · 26/10/2024 19:54

Cressida

Roly

Drizzlethru · 26/10/2024 19:49

Wilhelmina
Cecily
Margot

Roderick
Rupert
Montague/Monty

NorthantsNewbie · 26/10/2024 19:43

DD’s name, and my top 4 for the next one, are all on these 🙈.

I would add Romilly.

Waterboatlass · 26/10/2024 19:36

Jonquil
Jocasta
Pippa

Rupert
Roland

TheLittleOldWomanWhoShrinks · 26/10/2024 19:36

Jessamine was (I think) the name of the girl who lived at the Big House in the village in the later Milly-Molly-Mandy books. Her mother drove a car and would pile the village children in for picnics in the countryside. This would have been the 20s, I guess.

Definitely Annabel and Arabella. Philippa too, perhaps. Boys, absolutely Jonty. And Rupert.

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 26/10/2024 19:30

Hilary
Amanda
Amelia
Lucinda
Cassandra
Venetia

Rupert
Sebastian
Charles (if known as Charles not Charlie)
Freddie
Xander/Zander
30 years ago I would have said Oliver, but everybody's called Oliver now.

nameXname · 26/10/2024 19:03

Many of these are very modern.
If you think back to - for example - to the likes of Betjemen (surely the essential jolly hockey sticks poet? - though his own daughter was called Candida) then you get:
Joan
Beryl
Judith
Gillian
Daphne
Marjorie
Betty
Irene
Valerie

Of the same era, names such as Elizabeth, Catherine (various spellings), Anne, Louise, Victoria, Jane, Mary were/are pretty perennial and classless

Nicebloomers · 26/10/2024 18:59

Sophie
Hannah
Saskia
Allegra
Lauren
Lucinda
Araminta
Felicity but alway Flick
Bunty, Buffy, Mimi, Tiggy (none of which correspond with actual name)

Hugh
Cosmo
Rollo
Alasdair
John (the 6th)
Ptolemy
Benedict

mathanxiety · 26/10/2024 15:39

Camilla
Arabella
Annabel
Edwina
Lucinda
Fenella
Clarissa
Araminta

Hugo
Rufus
Rupert
Jolyon
Peregrine
Algernon
Vivian
Hilary
Guy