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?

I agree that the names are generally too 'trying hard' to be properly 'posh'.

Clemmie (Clementine) I would say is a very pukka name but I think the upper classes are generally into more traditional family names.

Lovely names, all of them, but the surnames...

Marina

Have you never watched "Last of the Sunner Wine"?

And Petra probably isn't very popular because nobody wants to call their baby after John Noakes' dog.

Sorry Dame M

I posted before I saw your response.

Surnames matter too. And locally can be quite dfefinitive.

I know a Marina and she couldn’t be more the opposite of posh!

A spanish looking/sounding surname locally is VERY posh, but in a Hispanic environment would be Smith.

Now what's the matter with an ultra classy Chardonnay or Chlamydia...?

In practice don't a lot of old money types give their kids names like Charlotte and Elizabeth? Names I have seen fall out of fashion in my lifetime are things like Josephine and Susan. It's always fun to look at the most popular names for babies lists every year.

I went to a 'posh' girls' school from 5-18 in the 70s/80s. The girls were mostly called Rachel, Sarah, Anna, Victoria, Rebecca, Claire/Clare, Julia, Katherine, Sophie, Emma, Caroline and Elizabeth. So all very, very standard names.

The girls at my DD's school (also "posh") are called things like Flo, Mollie, Millie, Alice, Matilda, Olivia, Izzie, Charlotte and Sophie. So, again, pretty standard.

There are a fair few names that would be regarded as a bit try-hard.

Cosmina is a posh name?
No association with it being posh here, the first time I heard it all I could think of was the cosmos and space
....the woman with the name was Romanian and dull as dishwater.

Perdie
Pandy
Boo
Zizzi
Bells
Birdie

@Katinski

Fanny.

Can't think why...

It's not a name as such - short for Frances

Alexandra
Rebbeca
Jessica

@Gottheteeshirtandlostit

St John.

Is that a girl's name now?

Lavinia
Cordelia
Cecilia
Sybilla
Honor
Artemis

In the 60s, when I was at school, the girls had ordinary names: Jane, Elizabeth, Penelope, Carol, Caroline, Alison, Jane (again), Jackie, Naomi, Rachel, Suzanne, Marianne, Charlotte, Victoria/Vicky and a few others I can't picture. Plus a few local favourites, like Demelza and Tamsin. Generally nothing outre or class-defining. Just...... names

I know people with most of the names mentioned on here, and I'm not pish. I don't think I've ever met a Fenella, though.

Anastasia. Beatrice. Charlotte.

I see 'posh' names as being simple and classic, like Helena, Frances, Genevieve, Francesca, Jocelyn, Ruth, Victoria. Any little girl called any of those names are definitely posh! They might not be fashionable but they are timeless classics.

Names like Oscar, Louis, Annabel, Oliver, Florence - used to be posh, but not anymore as been too overused.

I know a Persephone ... for example and the parents are very nouveau riche.

I wish.

Tara.

A boyfriend chucked me, in the 80s, for a Fenella...To be fair, I cheated on him with a Jeff.

I had an “Auntie” Felicia. She was quite posh.

@Squirrelblanket

I know a Marina who is absolutely not posh, the opposite in fact!

A candle for the fallen.

"Her name is Marina." 🕯😢

I think Petra was Peter Purves's dog.