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?

Hmm

Grannie was Alice Marina

Mother named me Petranella for the first 5 days. Cressida was in the frame as well. I shall not elaborate on what I ended up with. It is poshly fucking hideous and I'd have done anything to have been called Susan or Angela.

Portia
Romily
Tatiana

Poey
Robina

If your name is Marina, heaven forbid you should join up with a man called Morris. You'll never hear the end of it. Likewise, Allegra and Austin should never get together.

The only Aurelia I knew about was in the Ecce, Romani Latin schoolbooks. However, my Mum had an Auntie Auriel, which is close enough. I quite like the name.

Helen

Lol that anyone could think Helen is a posh name

Poshest woman I have ever known was called Jean.

Candida.

Quite unsurprising really.

God, not Portia

POR-SHA!

Dead common

When I was at school 'Cressida' was the posh equivalent of Norma/ Edna, an old lady name, too old fashioned, but at the same time too well remembered to make a come back.

I don't recall Marina ever being posh. Imo the next try hard names will be the abbreviations such as Tiggy.

Ha! DD's name has cropped up several times, as had mine oddly.

Just off to revel in our poshness...

Cordelia

Isolde

nobody wants to call their baby after John Noakes' dog
Well no, because that was Shep.

The only Marina I know is Russian, so her parents presumably loved Shakespeare.

@DrGachet

What about Marina and the Diamonds? Can posh people be welsh?

Being 'posh' is definitely an English thing. A lot of countries don't really have it because being posh is part of the English class system.There is no posh Welsh accent (we don't have a version of a posh accent at all in the Welsh language either), but there are Welsh accents that have been influenced by RP.

Her full name is Marina Lambrini Diamandis - she is half Greek.

Car makes;

Morris Marina
Austin Allegro (or the all-aggro, as they were nicknamed)

Charlotte was fashionable circa 1998, as was Tabitha (normally followed by 'like a cat?'), Petra would be met with 'After the Blue Peter dog?', Ruth was very popular with very religious protestant families in the 90s to be more aspirational than Bethany, Cecilia, like Celia, is more of a 1980s Catholic choice, Beatrice and Kirsty sre more widely used than you'd expect (quite a few extremely non posh teenagers), Amelia, too.

And there are so many Phillipas, it's ridiculous.

Araminta, we had a invoicing system at work called Cressida so if I hear that name that's what I think of.

@waterjungle

Cordelia

I knew a Cordelia. She tried to convince me her second home in the south of France did not make her posh nor did her private schooling. She was quite fond of an Indie/Chav look, and I think she was trying to be Lily Allen (also trying to downplay her poshness)

Annunziata anyone?
Actually I know two posh women, one is Cathy and the other, the very very posh one is a Julie🤷‍♀️

Julie short for Julia possibly. But nobody properly posh is called Julie.

Pandora & Robina 🌸 I have two friends with these names - both ex public school.

Araminta.

I’m not sure you can have been around the world much, EarthSight, if you think poshness is just an English thing.

@Janevaljane

Julie short for Julia possibly. But nobody properly posh is called Julie.

Not so.

I know a very properly posh Julie

Frankly I think it’s because those particular names aren’t very nice. I’m not posh, but I went to a “posh” uni and know many very “posh” people/families, I have genuinely never came across any of those names IRL