Posh girl names that haven’t filtered through

[Davespecifico]

Just wondering why some names stay within a milieu and others spread.
These are the sorts of names I’m thinking of:
Marina
Cosima
Petra
Cressida
Why do certain names stay within posh circles?

@REDLIPSTICKANDNAILS

My daughter knows a 7 year old Bunty. I love it.

About 6 years ago, I was working at the Hampton Court Flower Show and when talking to the terribly posh gentlemen wearing Panamas, they'd often call over their wives with a 'Oh, Bunty/Bunny, please come over and hear what this lady has to say about...' and with a waft of cream linen, a scarlet pashmina and beige calfskin pumps, Bunty/Bunny would float into view. Always blonde or white hair, tall, incredibly slim and moving like her tiny feet never touched the ground.

DP calls me Squirrel. Small, gingery huge arse and generally motivated by the opportunity to find food.

DH calls me Monkey because of my exceedingly long arms!

Lettice always reminds me of lettuce.

Has anyone actually known a real life Araminta? It's always dragged out on these threads as a posh name example.

I'm possibly a bit sensitive about it because it's the most vile name I've come across in all my 49 years. It physically hurts me to hear or read it!

Candida

A pregnant friend told me she was thinking of that and didn't take it well when I said it was a pity she wasn't having twins, then she could have called the other one Chlamydia....

@Rockbird

Has anyone actually known a real life Araminta? It's always dragged out on these threads as a posh name example.

I'm possibly a bit sensitive about it because it's the most vile name I've come across in all my 49 years. It physically hurts me to hear or read it!

I knew a Minty when I was much younger. She was a couple of years below me at school so I didn't know her very well. I assume Minty could have been a nickname for Araminta but I couldn't truly say for certain!

An acquaintance called Drusilla named her daughter Araminta. Must have been about 1985. I heard of another baby Araminta at the same time.

As the owner of one of these names, although not mentioned on this thread my dd has a very classic, simple, top 100 name for the last 25 years sort of name. Wild horses wouldn't have made me use anything else. However, she would like something much more unusual and as a teenager was most pissed off there was always at least onenother in her class.

Yes, I didn't know her well, but I met an Araminta at work some years ago.

I love Araminta. It was the name of the main character in a book I loved as a child. There was then an adaptation on the TV and the girl who played her was very pretty too

'Moondial'?

Yes!!

The way to name a baby I was reliably informed, full name bank manager shortened name rock star. If it fits both its perfect.

Love this! Mine name is just bank manager sadly.

I loved that! And the adaptation. All that portentous coughing the boy did! 😂 I remember the actress had a distinctive Welsh-sounding name - not sure if she was - and saw her crop up in a detective series a few years later, when I was a teen. I watched it, and remember she died horribly in the first five minutes! Fell onto a knife planted in a bed (she was a life model). Freaked me out.

I worked with an Araminta in the 1980's, also knew an Aminta, who often got angry as everyone used to call her Araminta. I knew quite a few Laetitia's growing up, often shortened to Tissy, Tish or Lettice. It means "joy" or happiness and is the name of a Saint, told it is popular in Spain.At my DD's first playgroup there was an Aurora, a Salome (difficult one that) and a Horatia!

I might try to find a copy, you know! I haven’t found anyone else who loved that book!

Petra isn’t posh! I like the name Sybil but that isn’t posh either

I know an Araminta as well as the 3 Jocastas. In fact I know most of the supposedly outlandish names on here including Artemis and Dido who are both relations.

My names Tabitha and I'm definitely not posh at all !! Working class parents, But I do love my name :)

Pippa
Lavender
Margot
Angeline
Rosalind
Maggie

Haven't RTFT so sorry if these names have already been mentioned but what about:

Annabelle
Arabella
Jemima

@Constantsarechanging

Pippa Lavender Margot Angeline Rosalind Maggie

You mean Pips Lala Gogo Lina Rozzy Mags

I worked for a publishing company back in the 90's and worked with :

Hermione - extremely posh
Antonia - very posh
Venetia - posh
Gilly - not at all posh
Serena - not posh, but thought she was

The poshest of them all was Jo!!

My bog standard Sixth form college in Essex had many a posh name:-

Phaedra - not posh but into art and drama
Octavia
Camila
Lucinda

Names I'd never heard before coming from a comp full of Claires, Sarahs and Alisons

Lavinia, Miranda and Virginia.

Many of these 'posh names' are not that unusual these days.

Once every so called posh or middle class girl is called Jemima/Cressida/Dido/Camilla/Cordelia/Cassandra/Octavia/Camilla and so on, it all becomes fairly boring and meaningless.

These days when I hear these names I don't equate them with the aristocracy and more with middle-class pushy parents who want their kids to sound posh...

I used to work with a Phaedra who was not 'posh' in the slightest...

Give your kids name that you like or/and that have a strong meaning to you rather than pursue some weird social climbing agenda....

This Marina is quite posh. As was her nan