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Suggest some names which are elegant and refined sounding but not pretentious

85 replies

09Tractor · 17/04/2009 18:58

I want the poshest name I can get away with . OK don't all murder me at once for having asked. I'd be so embarrassed saying that out loud in real life.

I'm called one of these 3 names Sharon/Dawn/Tracey (don't want to narrow down my identity too much). I've always hated revealing my name.

Your thoughts please?

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wilbur · 20/04/2009 15:13

Clara
Christina

Sebastian
Albert

YesSirICanBoogie · 20/04/2009 15:12

Anastasia
India
Arabella

gillybeanie · 20/04/2009 15:11

sophia
lily
scarlett
ruby
waynetta(only joking)

oscar
harry(is lovely)
james

OrmIrian · 20/04/2009 14:46

Elizabeth
Grace
Katherine

Alexander
James
Max

ziggyf · 20/04/2009 14:40

Does this help?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1574520/William-and-Emily-top-Telegraph-name-charts. html

ziggy

HarryB · 20/04/2009 14:34

My grandfather was called hubert (pron. hugh-bert). Is that posh?

Umlellala · 20/04/2009 14:04

Flavia?

Fimbo · 20/04/2009 13:04

Miranda

Jonty

Ninjacat · 20/04/2009 13:02

The posh bits of my family

my three great uncles
Hilton
Marcel
Francis

my Grandmothers
Betty Germaine
Ada Claira Elizabeth (known as Betty)

my Father and Grandfather
Alfred (both had this christian name but...)
Barrard (father was known by his middle name)

my Great Aunt
Lila

Hope that's useful.

HarryB · 20/04/2009 07:26

I meant "any" rather than "and"

HarryB · 20/04/2009 07:25

Cressida
Annabel (my fave for a girl if I ever have one)
Francesca
Penelope
Sophie
Helena

Nicholas
Tristian
Sebastian
Edward
George
......and royal names really.........

And oi, who said Harry isn't posh. I'm a f*cking lady I am

BottySpottom · 19/04/2009 23:48

Paul Kalo?

jkklpu · 19/04/2009 21:24

Venetia and Maximilian

frazzledoldbag · 19/04/2009 20:54

Hercules
Hugo
Barnaby
Felix
Willoughby
Montgomery (Monty)
Felix
Rupert
Sebastian
Hector
William (Will)

Annabel
Clementine
Jemima
Grania

hulabula · 19/04/2009 20:36

Elizabeth
Arabella
Camilla
Antonia

Sebastian
Quentin
Edward
Henry/Harry

Meglet · 19/04/2009 20:03

Constance.
Sebastian.

lockets · 19/04/2009 19:57

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JRocks · 19/04/2009 19:55

Annabel

PlumpRumpSoggyBaps · 19/04/2009 19:54

Boys:

Alexander
Oliver
Sebastian
Rupert
Benedict
Toby/Tobias
Xavier
Julian

Girls:

Sophie/Sophia
Georgia
Melissa
Belinda
Clara
Lucy
Jennifer
Harriet

kalo12 · 19/04/2009 19:49

Alexandra
Lara
Imogen
Joanna

Paul
Louis
Samuel
Benedict

janeite · 19/04/2009 19:41

Okay - I take back Bernadette. I do not know many posh girls - or dinner ladies!

suwoo · 19/04/2009 19:38

My 2 DC's are on the posh lists .

DS2 is going to be Felix.

wombleprincess · 19/04/2009 19:36

bernadette is not posh... surely not.. always makes me think of dinner ladies.

janeite · 19/04/2009 19:31

Lol at Alice and Isobel being posh as I have both! And I am really, really not posh!

Posh boys' names that I love:
Sebastian
Laurence
Barnaby
Algernon - would never be brave enough to use it though
Hector
Peregrine - again, wouldn't use it
Monty
Maximillian

Posh girls' names that aren't too hideous -
Portia
Ophelia
Bernadette

wombleprincess · 19/04/2009 19:23

that said, if you arent posh and use a really posh name (like pergrine, or portia or something), people will just think you are trying to be posh, and then they'll just take the piss out of DC. sorry, its a fine line....

and sorry, mrswoolf.. Iphigenia is that really a name? sounds like a computer programme!

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