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?

As PPs have said, us very posh folk tend to choose classic names for our kids.

Although, has anyone mentioned Venetia?

I know people who go by most of the other names on here though.

Cressida reminds me of a damp flannel with seeds growing on it.

Mustard and cress.
I have a waft of cress and egg sandwiches on hearing the name.

Kind of gutted my favourite posh girl name hasn't been mentioned yet: Plum.

Only met her once or twice, but the wife of an ex-colleague is called Vanetia. Slightly different spelling.

@Tiggy. posh Americans (they exist) have nicknames that are ultimately far, far posher than the UK would believe possible. Like Biff or Junior. The name comes with a pedigree that is innate and secure, with Roman numerals. So John Smith VII, could easily be known (to his close friends) as... John Smith. The US is really not as class-neutral as is made out.

Annunziata is Catholic rather than posh.

My name has made the list, as has DD1’s.

DD1 has a friend called Araminta. She is know as Mince.

Properly posh people have safe, dull, Royal Family names like Anne, Alexandra, Victoria, Elizabeth.

Selina
Heloise
Portia
Hermia
Cordelia
Cymbeline

Many Shakeperian names

Titty
Yes really

I'd use Aurelia (am not posh and have two DSs)

I had a great aunt Clotilde (also not posh)

I know quite a few posh people called Tricia, but I also know a lot of not-posh people called Tricia too.

@BikeRunSki

Selina Heloise Portia Hermia Cordelia Cymbeline

Many Shakeperian names

None of those are really posh names. Too look-at-me.

Tuppence
Zephy
Araminta
Tatiana
Allegra
Arabella
Ottilie

I went to quite a posh school and names were:
Caroline
Jennifer
Helen
Jane
Hilary
Sally
Susan
Angela
Heather
Marianne
Meriel
Julia
Amanda
Katharine
Charlotte
Fiona
Vicky
Virginia
Alison
Claudia
Debbie
Claire
Elizabeth
Candida
Toni (Antonia)

We were born 1959/60

They do not stay in the same circles though. As upthread confirms. The internet is a "gamechanger". Not just wider information on names, but choices over everything that underpins human life.

Just wondering why some names stay within a milieu and others spread

Social media, is everything. Names will stick as labels long after goods and services come through.

Really posh names are (nowadays) quite/very sedate, I think.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

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

DH was at school with Annunziata and Immaculata in the 60's in a very working class town up north. Not saying exactly where as too outing- he's been dining out on the story behind it for years. Some names might be posh in England but not in other countries - eg Petra is quite commonplace in Germany. Victoria ( Vicky) was also not a posh name when I was growing up ( admittedly quite a while ago now). I do wonder why Diana isn't more popular - I did expect a popularity surge after the death of Princess Di, and it never happened.

Lucinda.

Apart from the usual oddballs who want to lumber their children with a memorable name.

I knew a Drusilla at work. Expected her to be posh and she really wasn't.

And dd: 97/98

Imogen
Alice
Tilly
Flora
Rosie
Amelia
Isabel
Cecily
Christabel
Jess
Francesca
Millie
Olympia
Georgia
Leila

Lucindas, I've known a few, are always called Luke.

@XingMing nah, even the blue bloods that can trace their ancestry to the Mayflower are essentially new money

@Notnownotneverever

I don't link Marina as a posh name at all. I know two and they are not posh in the slightest.

All I hear when I see Marina is one of the 60s space programme's theme songs, 'Marina, aqua Marina', shows how old I am!

Marina isn't posh neither are Felicia or Serena. People I've met with this names have been quite down to earth.
Names like Persephone, Lucinda, Petronella, Camilla, Cecily I view as posh.

I have a cousin called Marina. She's absolutely lovely but definitely not posh.