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?

Margaux, Chardonnay, Frascatti....you heard it here first😉

Nigella’s daughter is Cosima.

Eugenie
Arabella
Lillian
Harriet
Ottilie
Clementine
Winifred
Nigella
Alexandrina
Georgiana
Charity
Prudence
Petulia
Tansy
Estella
Ione
Millicent
Victoria
Anoushka

Theodora
Leonora
Allegra
Francesca
Cordelia
Clementine
Camilla/Milla
Henrietta
Millicent
Kinvara
Arabella

I teach in a prep school...

Persephone is going to to be seph, Lucinda becomes Luke, Petronella will be Nelly, Camilla is Milly, Cecily is harder, and thus really posh.

I dont think that girls names are as easy to label as boys names. There is much less variety in boys names and the top 100 seems more stable for boys.
I reckon if i met a Dido or Perdita over 25 i'd have a guess at her being posh but thats it.

Agree Marina is far from posh!! Total opposite

UniversalAunt, those are varieties of grapes. Anyone naming their DD Chardonnay or Frascati is a drunk.

I have met a Tabitha and Serena who are definitely not posh. I have only ever met posh girls calls Fenella, Candida and Tallulah.

“Posh” people I know are called

Rosemary
Lucinda
Francesca
Victoria
Felicity
Elsbeth
Catherine
Frances

Marina is, er, not a posh name. At all.

Thinking about it also met an Arabella who is definitely not posh.

Julie short for Julia possibly. But nobody properly posh is called Julie
No sorry, definitely Julie. Proper old money landowning posh.
Just remembered years ago (as in she was born in about 1920) my Great Aunt married in to a very posh family (they owned pretty much the whole village) and my Great Uncle was named Robert. Not very posh granted, but his sister was called Roberta. Is that normal or a ‘posh’ thing, Robert and Roberta?

I've always thought Cressida Dick deserves to be where she is, if only for the fucking balls of steel she'd have had to have, rising through the ranks with that name.

I find proper posh English never use their actual real name, they are all derivative or somewhat derogatory ex-boarding school nicknames that stick for life: Milly, Tilly, Tig, Prue, Podge, Tubby, Babs, Stinky, Sebs, Tea, or deeply serious names as, Ophelia, Atticus, Bartholomew.

Cressida Dick has definitely surfaced via competence with that name.

Marina - I just think Coil !! (even though the spelling is different)

I have a niece and nephew with names mentioned on here neither family are posh at all 😆

Also know 2 Tabithas - one would be mid 30s now, think the other is around 7 again not posh in the slightest.

*Enolantalone, I definitely don't think of my friends from school by their given names.. They will forever be Bathtub, Haggis and the others I couldn't mention in polite company.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

Julie short for Julia possibly. But nobody properly posh is called Julie No sorry, definitely Julie. Proper old money landowning posh. Just remembered years ago (as in she was born in about 1920) my Great Aunt married in to a very posh family (they owned pretty much the whole village) and my Great Uncle was named Robert. Not very posh granted, but his sister was called Roberta. Is that normal or a ‘posh’ thing, Robert and Roberta?

Could be a posh thing. I once knew a very well to do Alistair, whose sister was called Alison.

Cosmo
Eudora
Rupert
Charity
Pearl
Blanche
Celia
Marigold
Margot

The Marina in Gogglebox doesn’t seem at all posh. Lovely though.

I absolutely love Tabitha, but although it was top of our list it wouldn't have been so appropriate for our boys! I wouldn't have considered it especially posh, though.

My name - and those of both my DDs are in here several times - don’t know whether to laugh or cry. For what it’s worth, the poshest women I know are called Tor (short for Victoria), Alex (Alexandra) and Anne.

Alexandra
Lucia
Agnes
Viola
Henrietta
Celia
Jonquil

Ah Auriel!
I met a lady once whom I thought had introduced herself as Oriel (like the college or the window!). Now I get it.